Q: Are you a young person (under 19) who hears, sees or senses things around you that other’s don’t, experiences multiplicity, or has unusual beliefs?
Q: Would you like to try your hand at writing a song about your experiences such as voices or visions, or a song about what it’s like to be you?
Voice Collective has paired up with Raw Sounds to offer you this two-hour songwriting workshop for under-19s who hear voices, see visions, or have other sensory experiences, or experience mulptiplicity or unusual beliefs.
In the workshop, we will support you to write a song about your feelings, experiences, or what it’s like to be you! An experienced songwriter from Raw Sounds will be there to share her knowledge of songwriting and to support you to create your very own song, and the Voice Collective team will be on hand at all times for support and to chat about anything that comes up.
This workshop is a great opportunity to meet other young people who hear voices, who may be going through something similar to you, and to connect and chat to each other. Writing a song expressing what it’s like to be you is a great way to fight stigma about hearing voices, too!
About Voice Collective:
Voice Collective is a support service for children and young people up to the age of 20 who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual sensory experiences, paranoia or unusual beliefs. Funded by BBC Children in Need and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, we provide support to children, young people and their families by email, telephone and face-to-face, via a dedicated online forum and in peer support groups across Greater London and in other parts of the UK. We provide training to CAMHS and EIP services, youth organisations, schools and many more. For more information visit: www.voicecollective.co.uk.
About Raw Sounds:
Raw Sounds is the mental health programme at Raw Material, a music education charity in Brixton. In their high quality music studios, Raw Sounds deliver collaborative music making workshops including live music, studio recording, music production and DJing. Participants work on original tracks for 10 weeks, and then have the opportunity to perform at end of term gigs in local music venues. They run evening workshops for young people aged 16-30 as well as a community programme for ages 30-65.
Please note:
This workshop will support you to write your own song, rap or spoken word poem. There won’t be time or facilities in this workshop to record the song or create backing music, however if you are a young person with a care-coordinator and you want to continue working on your song after the workshop is over, you can be referred to Raw Sounds’ ten-week programme.
Q. At least 8% of young people hear voices that other people don’t. If one of them came to you tomorrow and wanted to talk about it – would you know what to say or do?
This half day workshop presents a fresh approach to voice-hearing. Founded in lived experience and the work of the Voice Collective project, it includes:
PLEASE NOTE: This is a 3-day training course. It runs from 10am – 4pm on Monday 15th, Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th April 2019.
This innovative and interactive 3-day course will help you to develop the skills necessary to launch and co-facilitate a Voice Collective peer support group for young people under the age of 19 within your organisation.
It combines personal and professional experience to cover the following areas:
- Understanding ‘hearing voices’ and other related experiences
- Making sense of different models of understanding these experiences
- Developing a toolbox of coping strategies to support young people in their recovery
- Setting up, launching and sustaining a Voice Collective peer support group
- Practical skills for group facilitation
- Managing challenging situations in groups
Who is the course for?
This course is aimed at those already familiar with the Voice Collective ethos and approach to voice-hearing, and who intend to use their learning to launch and facilitate Voice Collective peer support groups within their organisations. This could include: psychologists, youth workers, support workers, nurses, therapists, OTs, social workers, mentors & more.
Young people (aged 16+) with lived experience of voices/visions, and who wish to train to co-facilitate groups, are particularly encouraged. We welcome joint applications between workers and young people.
Important Information:
- This course is open to people who support and/or work with children and young people (in a variety of settings, including the home). If you do not currently support or work with children and young people, we may not be able to accept your booking.
- We cannot accept group bookings – each attendee must register themselves and provide their contact details in case of emergencies.
- As our courses are often oversubscribed, please book your place only if you are confident you are able to attend for the full three days.
- If you are unable to make the course, please cancel your place as early as possible to avoid spaces going to waste, by emailing info@voicecollective.co.uk.
Q. At least 8% of young people hear voices that other people don’t. If one of them came to you tomorrow and wanted to talk about it – would you know what to say or do?
This half day workshop presents a fresh approach to voice-hearing. Founded in lived experience and the work of the Voice Collective project, it includes:
Q: if a young person you’re working with hears voices and misuses drugs or alcohol, and wanted to talk to you about it, would you know what to say or do?
There has been increasing awareness of the relationship between drugs and hearing voices in young people, but much less is said about what it might be like for a young person who uses drugs and hears voices, and even less about ways to support a young person in this situation.
Delivered by trainers with lived experience of substance misuse and hearing voices, this training will:
- look at the relationship between hearing voices and substance misuse in young people
- think about ways of understanding and talking to young people about drugs, alcohol and hearing voices
- think about substance misuse as a ‘coping strategy’, or way of coping with difficult voices
- look at new ways to support young people with hearing voices and substance misuse
About Voice Collective:
Voice Collective is a support service for children and young people up to the age of 20 who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual sensory experiences, paranoia or unusual beliefs. Funded by BBC Children in Need and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, we provide support to children, young people and their families by email, telephone and face-to-face, via a dedicated online forum and in peer support groups across Greater London and in other parts of the UK. We provide training to CAMHS and EIP services, youth organisations, schools and many more. For more information visit: www.voicecollective.co.uk.
Essential information:
- This course is open to people who support and/or work with children and young people (in a variety of settings, including the home). If you do not currently support or work with children and young people, we may not be able to accept your booking.
- We cannot accept group bookings – each attendee must register themselves and provide their contact details in case of emergencies.
- As our courses are often oversubscribed, please book your place only if you are confident you are able to attend for the full day.
- If you are unable to make the course, please cancel your place as early as possible to avoid spaces going to waste, by emailing info@voicecollective.co.uk.
Whilst around 8% of children and young people hear or see things around them that other people can’t, only a third of these are distressed by them and seek support. Even those with very distressing experiences can learn ways of understanding and dealing with them.
This highly interactive course will explore ways of supporting children and young people to make sense of, and manage, difficult and distressing sensory experiences.
The course includes group discussion, practical activity and role play, and offers participants the opportunity to:
- Gain a deeper understanding of the experience of voices, visions and other unusual sensory experiences
- Consider the impact of different explanatory models on a young person, their family & supporters (including psychological, biomedical and spiritual explanations)
- Explore the link between voices, visions, emotions and difficult life experiences
- Build upon a toolkit of strategies to support young people distressed by voices/visions/other sensory experiences
- Hear positive examples of resilience and recovery
Who is this course for?
This course is open to anyone supporting children/young people who hear voices or have other unusual sensory experiences: e.g. psychologists, nurses, OTs, therapists, counsellors, SENCOs, parents/carers etc. It is open to young people (aged 16+) with lived experience.
The course is aimed at those who are already familiar with the Voice Collective ethos and approach: e.g. those who have completed our ‘Level 1’ half day training course, or who have attended an in-house training session/presentation. If you are unfamiliar with our approach, you will be asked to complete a short online study session in advance of the training.
If you are unsure of your eligibility, please contact Lucy on info@voicecollective.co.uk to discuss.
Essential information:
- This course is open to people who support and/or work with children and young people (in a variety of settings, including the home). If you do not currently support or work with children and young people, we may not be able to accept your booking. Please contact us to find out if we have any spare waiting list places available.
- We cannot accept group bookings – each attendee must register themselves and provide their contact details in case of emergencies.
- As our courses are often oversubscribed, please book your place only if you are confident you are able to attend for the full day.
- If you are unable to make the course, please cancel your place as early as possible to avoid spaces going to waste, by emailing info@voicecollective.co.uk.
Q: If a young offender told you that they were hearing voices or seeing visions, and they wanted to talk with you about it, would you know what to say or do?
Q: Would you like to learn how to open up conversations with young offenders who hear voices or see visions, and learn practical coping strategies to help those in distress?
According to the MoJ, 25% of women and 15% of men in prison hear voices, see visions, or have other unusual sensory experiences. Among young offenders, this figure is likely to be much higher.
Whilst some young offenders find their voices or visions comforting or reassuring, especially if they have experienced abuse, trauma or adversity, others can find them overwhelming or distressing. Such distress can lead young offenders to self-harm, use alcohol/drugs or isolate themselves, however, with support they can and do recover.
About this workshop:
This innovative 1-day workshop is brought to you by Voice Collective at Mind in Camden. Founded in lived experience, and the work of our prisons and detention projects, this workshop will present a fresh approach to voice hearing. Provding an introduction to the Hearing Voices Network ethos and approach to voice hearing, it will equip participants with increased understanding, skills and confidence to open up conversations with young offenders about their experiences, and provide support to those in distress.
Subjects include:
- What it feels like to hear voices as a young person aged 13-20 in a Secure Children’s Home, Secure Training Centre or Young Offender Institution
- The impact this can have on a young person in a SCH/STC/YOI, and after they have left
- Different ways of opening up conversations with young offenders about voices, helping them to feel heard & supported
- Simple and effective coping strategies suitable for use in secure settings
- Positive stories of recovery and resilience
This course is suitable for anyone working with young people aged 13-20 in SCHs/STCs/YOIs, or with young offenders after release. It is suitable for professionals at all levels of experience, and we can accept workers from the voluntary as well as statutory sector.
Essential information:
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- This course is open to people who support and/or work with children and young people (in a variety of settings, including the home). If you do not currently support or work with children and young people, we may not be able to accept your booking. Please contact us to find out if we have any spare waiting list places available.
- We cannot accept group bookings – each attendee must register themselves and provide their contact details in case of emergencies.
- As our courses are often oversubscribed, please book your place only if you are confident you are able to attend for the full day.
- If you are unable to make the course, please cancel your place as early as possible to avoid spaces going to waste, by emailing info@voicecollective.co.uk.
Whilst around 8% of children and young people hear or see things around them that other people can’t, only a third of these are distressed by them and seek support. Even those with very distressing experiences can learn ways of understanding and dealing with them.
This highly interactive course will explore ways of supporting children and young people to make sense of, and manage, difficult and distressing sensory experiences.
The course includes group discussion, practical activity and role play, and offers participants the opportunity to:
- Gain a deeper understanding of the experience of voices, visions and other unusual sensory experiences
- Consider the impact of different explanatory models on a young person, their family & supporters (including psychological, biomedical and spiritual explanations)
- Explore the link between voices, visions, emotions and difficult life experiences
- Build upon a toolkit of strategies to support young people distressed by voices/visions/other sensory experiences
- Hear positive examples of resilience and recovery
Who is this course for?
This course is open to anyone supporting children/young people who hear voices or have other unusual sensory experiences: e.g. psychologists, nurses, OTs, therapists, counsellors, SENCOs, parents/carers etc. It is open to young people (aged 16+) with lived experience.
The course is aimed at those who are already familiar with the Voice Collective ethos and approach: e.g. those who have completed our ‘Level 1’ half day training course, or who have attended an in-house training session/presentation. If you are unfamiliar with our approach, you will be asked to complete a short online study session in advance of the training.
If you are unsure of your eligibility, please contact Lucy on info@voicecollective.co.uk to discuss.
Essential information:
- This course is open to people who support and/or work with children and young people (in a variety of settings, including the home). If you do not currently support or work with children and young people, we may not be able to accept your booking. Please contact us to find out if we have any spare waiting list places available.
- We cannot accept group bookings – each attendee must register themselves and provide their contact details in case of emergencies.
- As our courses are often oversubscribed, please book your place only if you are confident you are able to attend for the full day.
- If you are unable to make the course, please cancel your place as early as possible to avoid spaces going to waste, by emailing info@voicecollective.co.uk.
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