Our Stories Matter: Voices, Visions, and Lives
Dear Friends,
The Hearing Voices Network-USA Board is embarking on an exciting project to gather creative works that will broaden understanding of the voice-hearing experience and celebrate our community’s rich lived experience in all of its beauty, terror, and everything in between. We will publish these works in books and online.
We are requesting personal narratives and creative submissions (guidelines below and through info@hearingvoicesusa.org), from all frameworks and cultural backgrounds for interpreting voices, visions, and other unusual experiences. Submissions may be published with your real name, anonymously, or under a pseudonym, We are available to help with development and editing of longer narratives, including interviewing you, if that’s how you’d prefer to share your experience.
Please share your story and experiences with us through the medium of your choice. Our goal is to allow people to see, hear, and feel the different ways in which our community understands and relates to their experiences and the world. A few guiding questions to help your process appear below the submission guidelines.
The deadline for submitting a story or essay is a two-part process, first submitting a 300-350 word summary by September 27, 2020 and then, if accepted, submitting the full essay by December 12, 2020.
The deadline for all other formats is Sunday, December 12, 2020.
For full information please read the document here.
The Hearing Voices Network-USA Board is embarking on an exciting project to gather creative works that will broaden understanding of the voice-hearing experience and celebrate our community’s rich lived experience in all of its beauty, terror, and everything in between. We will publish these works in books and online.
We are requesting personal narratives and creative submissions (guidelines below and through info@hearingvoicesusa.org), from all frameworks and cultural backgrounds for interpreting voices, visions, and other unusual experiences. Submissions may be published with your real name, anonymously, or under a pseudonym, We are available to help with development and editing of longer narratives, including interviewing you, if that’s how you’d prefer to share your experience.
Please share your story and experiences with us through the medium of your choice. Our goal is to allow people to see, hear, and feel the different ways in which our community understands and relates to their experiences and the world. A few guiding questions to help your process appear below the submission guidelines.
The deadline for submitting a story or essay is a two-part process, first submitting a 300-350 word summary by September 27, 2020 and then, if accepted, submitting the full essay by December 12, 2020.
The deadline for all other formats is Sunday, December 12, 2020.
For full information please read the document here.
2020 Southwest FEP Conference
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August 3, 2020—August 5, 2020
Free for all participants. The 2020 Southwest First Episode Psychosis (FEP) Conference, hosted by the South Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, will provide invaluable professional development for mental health professionals serving individuals with early psychosis or clinical high risk for psychosis. The virtual three-day agenda will include nationally-recognized plenary speakers, insightful young adults and family members, and opportunities to learn from and network with similar providers from across the nation. To see more click here. |
Redefining Crazy
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November 6-7, 2019
This year, the Mental Health Association of San Francisco's Annual Conference will bring together peers, advocates, providers, community-based stakeholders, tech developers, and government leaders in a collaborative and actionable learning environment to analyze what’s “crazy” about the mental health system and the world around us to explore innovative solutions. Warning for general admission: This event can be considered to be for people who work in this field. BAHVN will have some people attending but do not think you have to attend if you think it is to expensive. To see ticket prices click here. |
Community Education Day for Psychosis
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We will be staffing a panel there. Come if you can.
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Compassion Focused Therapy for Psychosis
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Past: An Introduction to the Hearing Voices Movement
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Saturday, May 18, 2019, 10 am to 5 pm
@ South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis Street, Berkeley Do you experience voices visions, special messages, unusual beliefs, or extreme states of consciousness? Do you love or work with someone who has any of these experiences and you want to build understanding and/or be a better support? If so, then please join us for this one-day workshop that will include an overview of the Hearing Voices movement, personal stories, strategies and more! $45 for family members, clinicians, and caregivers Free for those with lived experience To register, e-mail: edherzog@comcast.net Download a flyer here. PDF PowerPoint from talk here. |
Past: Crazywise
Download a flyer here.
You are invited to a screening and discussion of a new documentary:
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Psychosis, Spiritual Awakening, or Shamanic Initiation? Crazy…or wise? The traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures often contradicts modern views about a mental health crisis. Is it a ‘calling’ to grow and heal the community or just a ‘broken brain’? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience.
Thursday August 10th from 7:00-9:30 pm (doors open at 6:30, film at 7pm) @ The Lab, 2948 16th St, San Francisco (one block from 16th street BART station) Suggested donation of $10/ no one will be turned away for lack of funds |
PAST: San Francisco Healing Voices Premiere
Download a flyer here.
PAST: March 26th, Family-Focused Voices & Beliefs Training
The BAHVN is happy to announce a one-day family voices & beliefs workshop, organized with our sister group, South Bay Project Resource. The workshop will take place on Saturday, March 26th, from 10-5 pm at the Cubberly Community Center (Room H-6) at 4000 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto.
Please click here to register for the training. Our primary audience is family members and individuals with experience of voices, beliefs and/or unusual experiences, but we're happy to include other interested community members and allies. The training team has substantial collective experience working with voices and psychosis in caregiver roles, as peers, and as providers.
Handouts from our last family training event:
Please click here to register for the training. Our primary audience is family members and individuals with experience of voices, beliefs and/or unusual experiences, but we're happy to include other interested community members and allies. The training team has substantial collective experience working with voices and psychosis in caregiver roles, as peers, and as providers.
Handouts from our last family training event:
