Voice Collective training
As well as the direct support we offer to children, young people, families and professionals we offer training for individuals and organisations who are supporting young voice hearers.
We’ve worked with numerous NHS Trusts and community organisations, and trained hundreds of practitioners working in schools, CAMHS, Early Intervention in Psychosis teams, social care settings and more.
The best place to find upcoming dates for open trainings is in our monthly newsletter. You can also see what’s currently available on Ticket Tailor.
If you’re interested in booking a private training for your team please email us at info@voicecollective.co.uk.
“Really loved the experiential activities, the opportunities for self reflection and talking as a group about experiences and activities that made me question and broaden my perspectives.”
“It gave me a better understanding of my self and how my experiences shape the care I give.”
“This training was so helpful and taught me to think of voices in an angle I had never thought of before - can voices be helpful... that voices are not always a negative sign, that it is okay to acknowledge the voices with the young person.”
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Level 1 Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices
This training presents a fresh approach to voice hearing. Founded in lived experience and the work of the Voice Collective project.
0.5 day
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Level 2 Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices
This training will explore ways of supporting children and young people to make sense of, and manage, difficult and distressing sensory experiences.
0.5 day
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Level 3 Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices
For those who have attended Level 1 & 2 who want to explore further how to support young people who hear voices or have other unusual experiences.
0.5 day
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Hearing Voices Peer Support Group Facilitation
Training for anyone who would like to set up or help run a hearing voices peer support group, or become a volunteer facilitator for our online groups at Voice Collective.
3 days
Level 1 Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices
Explore what it feels like to hear voices as a young person.
The impact voice hearing can have on a young person’s home, school and social life.
An introduction to the Hearing Voices Network ethos and approach to unusual sensory experiences.
Ways to open up conversations about voices, helping young people to feel heard.
Simple youth-friendly coping strategies.
Level 2 and 3 Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices
You must have attended Level 1 before starting Level 2
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 and 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.
Hearing Voices peer support group facilitation training
This training course, run across 3 days, is open to people who would like to set up or help run a Hearing Voices Peer Support Group.
Suitable both for professionals and for those with lived experience of voices, visions or beliefs, the training caters to those working across a number of settings including community settings and secure or forensic settings, and to those working with diverse populations including young people.
Hearing Voices groups are an established and valuable resource for people who experience voices, visions and other unusual sensory perceptions or alternative realities. Groups provide a safe space to share individual viewpoints, support each other, and find ways of making sense of experiences.