Voice Collective General Resources
We have included some of our own resources that we have created at Voice Collective with young person involvement - take a look
Voice Collective Webinars and Talks
Voice Collective Webinar for Educational Psychologists July 2020
Voice Collective Mental Health Awareness Week May 2021 Live on Instagram!
Hearing Voices in Children’s TV and Film
In September 2020, the National Hearing Voices Network held the webinar ‘Voice hearing representation in children’s TV and film’. One of our Development Workers on the project wrote this article in response.
Voice Collective Zines
In September 2021, a group of young people who hear voices (aged 16–25) joined artist Liv Wynter and Hearing the Voice, for a series of online workshops where they made zines exploring how hearing voices intersects with other aspects of their identity.
Click through the interactive bookshelf here to explore the results. We recommend viewing in full screen mode for the best experience.
The work was supported by a prize awarded to Hearing the Voice by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to explore diverse forms of story-telling.
Voice Collective Memes!
In November 2021, Voice Collective collaborated with Rachel Rowan Olive on a meme-making workshop. Young people shared their favourite memes and we even created a few of our own. Rachel designed this amazing piece to summarise some of the key ideas.
Here is the padlet where we put together all our memes. Please feel free to add any of your own! Please read the guidelines at the top of the page in terms of what is acceptable to share.
You can also view the artwork Rachel created from the workshop here
Other General Resources
Here we have some recommendations of other resources you might find helpful
Eleanor Longden - The Voices in My Head
To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started talking. Initially innocuous, these internal narrators became increasingly antagonistic and dictatorial, turning her life into a living nightmare. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, hospitalized, drugged, Longden was discarded by a system that didn't know how to help her. Longden tells the moving tale of her years-long journey back to mental health, and makes the case that it was through learning to listen to her voices that she was able to survive.
The Soul Asylums
Website and blog by Shez – In the summer of 2006 – under the pressure of demanding inner-city youth work, an emotional cocktail of life stresses, a taxing cannabis and alcohol habit, and deepening spiritual crisis – I underwent a serious psychological breakdown and began to experience the rare phenomenon of hearing voices…
Schizophrenics or Voice Hearers?
Nikhil is a voice hearer, and wants to share some of the experiences with schizophrenia, in the hope that we can all together lift the stigma associated with having hallucinations.
Understanding Voices Website
Welcome to Understanding Voices, a place where you can find information about different approaches to voice-hearing, and ways of supporting those who are struggling with the voices that they hear.