Working With Voices - 1 Day Workshop
The Working with Voices workshop will equip participants with a tool kit
for working with voice-hearers. It is suitable for front-line mental
health staff working in the health, social service and voluntary
sectors.
Dates and Cost
12th or 13th June 2012 (1 day) - Register Now! Places filling fast!
Members: $195
Non-members: $295
Topics Covered
- Using MP3 technology (supplied) experience the world of a psychiatric disability through a simulated experience of hearing voices that are distressing.
- Gain a better understanding of the challenges that people with a psychiatric disability
- Identify the difference between voices that are distressing and other voices
- Voice profiling
- Working within belief systems
- Developing coping strategies
Facilitator - Arana Pearson
Arana Pearson is director and principal trainer for Keepwell Ltd in Australia and New Zealand, an organisation that specialised in delivering experiential learning and recovery-based training to the mental health sector. Arana is an educator, musician and writer who became involved in mental health service sector some years after his own experience using mental health services in New Zealand. He was the first chairman for the national consumer advisory group in New Zealand project to counter stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness (Like Minds Like Mine).
Arana is the director of Mad Pride concerts throughout Australasia. In 2005 he was an invited performer at the Yale University International Conference on Mental Health in the USA.
In 2008 he features on the Australian television programme “Enough Rope” hosted by Andrew Denton about the experience of hearing voices, recovery and mental illness.
Arana hears voices and has advocated for better understanding, acceptance and support for people who hear voices over the past 14 years. He is co-chair of the NZ Hearing Voices Network and represented them at the First World Congress on Voice Hearing in Masstricht Netherlands 2009.