Delivery Mode – 3 x 5.5 hour virtual sessions over 2 weeks - NOTE: PARTICIPANTS NEED TO ATTEND AND REGISTER FOR ALL SESSIONS.
This is a free event designed for members of the public clinical mental health workforce in Victoria, (staff employed at Area Mental Health Services, Forensicare or mental health staff from RCH). For example, a social worker working in mental health at Austin Health. Staff from MHCSSs, ACCHOs, AOD or other partner organisations may sometimes also attend. Please note, if you do register for this event and it is not clear you are part of the intended audience, your registration will be confirmed two weeks prior to the event start date, or earlier.
Note: The Hearing Voices Approach and Training have been developed around the world by people with Lived Experience.
Event description:
This course is the foundation to the Hearing Voices Approach. The first 2 days will give you a solid understanding of applying the approach in many practical settings, either for yourself, in your work as a mental health professional or in your family/home environment.
The final day covers Voice Profiling - a set of accessible strategies that help build greater awareness and understanding of a person’s voices. By the end of this training, you will have more tools & confidence to work with people’s voice hearing experiences.
This training is for all disciplines in clinical services including medical and nursing staff/
Hearing Voices Approach:
- Hearing voices is a common human experience
- Recovery is about changing the relationship with the voices and transforming the voice hearers’ experiences to acceptance
- The experience of hearing voices is meaningful
- We define ‘hearing voices’ as an umbrella term used to refer to auditory, visual, olfactory sensory experiences, and beliefs that others around them do not experience
This course is delivered online via Zoom.
A zoom link will be to registrants a few days before the training.