Mental Health SIG - Hearing Voices Network
Professional Rehabilitation Consultants 1246 University Avenue West, Suite 100 St. Paul, Minnesota 55104 USA 651-603-8774 View additional information+University+Ave.,+W.++St.+Paul,+MN++55104&src=IE-TopResult&FORM=IETR02&conversationid=
Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
Category: SIGS
Agenda: 5:00 Introductions
5:15 Presentations
6:15 Closing remarks/Questions
Course Description: .
Hearing Voices - Twin Cities is a registered group member of the Hearing Voices Network - USA, which is a national network of support groups, activists, professionals, and anyone else who identifies with being a voice-hearer and is committed to its values. The term "voice-hearer" has become an umbrella term to describe not just the experience of literally hearing a human voice speaking, but also "strange, unusual, or extreme experiences" to accommodate a wider spectrum of experiences and reflecting the belief that these experiences are not fixed and permanent, but change according to circumstance, mood, etc. The Hearing Voices Network is quite new in the USA, spanning back just over a decade, but the model has existed in Europe since the 1980s, when the idea of running a Hearing Voices group came about from the exchanges between a voice-hearing patient Patsy Hage and her psychiatrist Marrius Romme, who decided, against the professional wisdom of the age, to listen to the content of Patsy’s voices and even help her to find other voice hearers to exchange advice and wisdom. The Hearing Voices Groups are the core of the Hearing Voices Network. They function not only as support groups for voice-hearers to discuss their experience, learn coping strategies, and explore the meanings they can derive from their experiences, but also as social spaces for people who may feel stigmatized by labels or excluding on account of their experiences to meet others and form social ties and bonds. Hearing Voices Groups are strictly non-clinical spaces where members are free to talk (or not talk) about whatever they please without notes being taken, actions being taken against them, labels being applied to them, or any other action that may result from saying something odd or extreme in a clinical space. Speakers: Kelly Watterman Learning Objectives:
Target Audience: OTR, OTA, OTS with interest in mental health OT. Course Level: Introductory Event Location: Professional Rehabilitation Consultants, Menlo Park Building, 1246 University Avenue W. Suite 100, St. Paul, MN 55104 Contact Hours: 1.5 Fee: Free MOTA members/$20.00 non-MOTA
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