Hearing Voices Network NYC is proud to announce a new Hearing Voices Support Group on the Upper West Side/Morningside Heights. The group is led by a voice-hearer and will meet at 7pm twice per month. The dates for November are 11/16 & 11/30. The meetings will be held in the back room at Max Caffe located at 1262 Amsterdam Ave (b/w 122nd & 123rd Streets). For more information e-mail Peri: perizarrella [at] gmail [dot] com
Hearing Voices NYC is moving towards having once-monthly general interest/collective meetings where people interested in the movement can share their experiences, projects, and collaborate. Our next meeting is November 3rd 2016 at Jefferson Market Library 6-8pm. ALL ARE WELCOME.
This meeting will be led by Karlijn Roex and will be about stigma before talking about general updates to our community (new groups & ideas that are forming). Plus HVN NYC now has bracelets! Come get one!
Karlijn Roex is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Germany), currently visiting at Columbia University, and a human rights activist. Before, she has studied at the University of Oxford. Since April 2016, she is a member of MindFreedom International, advocating for the rights of people with extreme mental states/ distress. Besides her dissertation on the social causes of suicide, she currently works on a project studying the precarious freedoms of people with extreme mental states/ distress.
The most frustrating thing about the hearing voices experience (all hallucinations) is the difficulty in describing it and talking about it pragmatically. The experience is confusing and not shared by others who struggle to relate. The associated stigma does not encourage dialogue or seeking help. Relationships suffer, progress in life becomes difficult and independence is lost impacting the voice hearer and friends and family alike.
Come and learn about:
DATE AND TIME
Mon, October 17, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
LOCATION
NYC Seminar and Conference Center
71 West 23rd Street
#515 Seminar A
New York, NY 10010
COST
$20-35– Buy tickets here
Gregory Shankland is a voice-hearer with over 30,000 hours of lived experience.
Hearing Voices NYC is moving towards having once-monthly general interest/collective meetings where people interested in the movement can share their experiences, projects, and collaborate. Our next meeting is November 3rd 2016 at Jefferson Market Library 6-8pm. ALL ARE WELCOME.
When: Thursday, October 6th 2016, 6-8pm
Where: Jefferson Market Library (10th Street & 6th Ave), Willa Cather Room
What: A general interest meeting for all people interested in promoting the Hearing Voices Movement in NYC.
Some topics to be discussed are:
Choosing How to Respond to Voices:
An Experiential Workshop of Mindfulness-Based Therapy for Distressing Voices and Relating Therapy
September 28, 9am – 4pm
Background
Distressing voices often leave people feeling overwhelmed and disempowered – feeling they have little or no control in their own lives – that voices have all the power and control. Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) can be helpful, but it may only help to a small extent and not everyone benefits. In our work we have built on the early work of CBT – developing and evaluating novel ways of responding differently to distressing voices. We hope that this may help to increase feelings of empowerment, personal control and personal choice – ultimately reducing the distress and personal impact that voices can have.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy (Morning Session)
Inspired by and working with Paul Chadwick (Institute of Psychiatry, London), a pioneer of mindfulness-based therapies, we have evaluated a mindfulness-based intervention for 108 people distressed by hearing voices in a randomised controlled trial. We will tell you a little about the promising outcomes from this study, but the workshop will focus on teaching the therapy skills and giving opportunities to practice these skills and to reflect on our learning.
Relating Therapy (Afternoon Session)
Relating Therapy highlights the parallels between people’s relationship with voices and with people in their social worlds. It uses extensive experiential role plays to change people’s relationship with voices by enhancing assertive responding skills – learning to respond assertively to voices and people. There are encouraging findings from our recent pilot randomised controlled trial that we will present, with the remainder of the workshop giving the opportunity to observe, practice and discuss the core Relating Therapy skills.
Learn more here
Hearing Schreber’s Voices: A Celebration of Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness.
Call for Participants
What: Written in the late 1800s, Daniel Paul Schreber’s book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness is perhaps the most well-known first person account of what is commonly termed “madness.” We are currently in the process of developing an immersive, multi-media, 2-hour event inspired by the book. We are looking for people interested in reading sections of the book or performing poetry, dance, music, art, etc. inspired by the book. We would love people with lived experience, voice-hearers, clinicians, theorists, family-members, friends, poets, writers, arts, musicians, dancers, videographers, anyone inspired by the memoir to participate.
When: May 20th 2017, 6-8pm
Where: Jefferson Market Library
425 Ave of the Americas at 10th Street
New York City
We will be using all the rooms of this library/repurposed 1800s courthouse. As Schreber’s memoir was not only a memoir, but also a judicial document in support of his freedom from the asylum, we hope the environment will stimulate creative expression.
Contact: Evan Malater: emalater [at] gmail [dot] com
Marie Hansen: mariehansen188 [at] gmail [dot] com
This event is cosponsored by Das Unbehagen, the International Society for the Psychological & Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS-US), and Hearing Voices Network NYC.
New Documentary on voice-hearing from Germany: Voice in the Head
Available from June 3, 2016 at 12:00 am to September 1, 2016 at 11:59 pm
About six to 15 percent of people hear at some time in their lives. Well over half of those who hear voices are mentally healthy and lead entirely unremarkable lives. But due to the stigma, few are willing to speak openly about their experiences.
Programme information
Listening to Voices: Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices Network is a research project that tries to understand how we can listen to voices that we find difficult, disruptive or challenging, whether these seem to come from inside or outside ourselves. It has been created by voice-hearers, academics and independent artists who are interested in asking why and how we silence voices in ourselves or others and how we might help increase understanding about the experience of hearing voices. Together we have created a companion to voice-hearing – Listen (If you Dare) – an interactive web version of the companion and a sound piece.
Check it out here.
NPR Show about Healing Voices
By STEVE KRASKE & LUKE X. MARTIN
Claiming patients who experience psychosis have a chemical imbalance is an easy and incomplete explanation to a complicated problem. Treating patients with medication doesn’t work for everyone, but other options do exist. Some are finding hope and better quality of life with a more holistic approach.
Guests:
Listen here