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Intervoice Congress 2021

The 12th World Hearing Voices Congress, Online, 1 – 3 September 2021.

“Solidarity in Times of Adversity:

The Global Voice Hearing Community Reconnecting”

Congress Theme

Over the past 18 months, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented challenge across the globe, which many of us will have experienced as disconnecting, isolating, frightening, chaotic, overwhelming, and, at times, unbearable. However, the pandemic has also shown the power of solidarity when communities come together to offer each other support in times of adversity.

This year’s Congress will create spaces for voice hearers, family members, carers, practitioners, academics, and all those interested in the principles and values of the International Hearing Voices Movement, to connect and/or reconnect with one another in a post-pandemic world, either in person in Cork, Ireland or online across the globe. Drawing on two ancient Irish traditions, the Congress organisers aim to provide a platform (ardán*) to focus on the ways in which many voices can work together, supporting each other in difficult times (meitheal*).

*Ardán (pronounced ar-dawn) is an Irish word meaning platform, stage, but it is also used in the context of ‘raising one spirits’!

*Meitheal (pronounced meh-hill) is the Irish expression of the ancient and universal appliance of cooperation to social need, referring to the co-operative labour system in Ireland where neighbours help each other in turn with farming work, such as harvesting crops. It establishes community unity through cooperative work and mutually reciprocal support.

Confirmed Speakers:

Jacqui Dillon (UK), will open the Congress, Rai Waddingham (UK), Cindy Marty Hadge (USA), Peter Bullimore (UK), Hearing Voices Network Athens (Greece), Adi Hasanbasic (Czech Republic), Kate Fiske (Australia) – The Listening to Voices Project. 

Congress Format

Congress will have online format. Delegates will be able to access all the keynote presentations, all the online concurrent sessions, and all the networking sessions. See Registration details below.

Registration Details

Click Here to Register via credit card or see below for registration and bank transfer payment option.

Registrants will be able to attend all keynote presentations, online concurrent sessions, all networking sessions, and all online events offered during breaks.

Fees:
Intervoice Day (1 day) and Congress Days (2 Days)

Voice Hearers/Students: Sterling £45.00 or Euro €53.00

Practitioners: Sterling £65.00 or Euro €75.00

For those of you who do not have access to a credit card to buy a ticket for the Congress, you may send your payment via PayPal or bank transfer to the bank account of Harry Gijbels, HVNI Treasurer.

Payment can be made in Euro (€53.00 for voice hearers/students and €75.00 for professionals) or Sterling (£45.00 for voice hearers/students and £65.00 for professionals).

Please make sure you mention Intervoice Congress in the reference line when you transfer the money.

You also need to send an email to Harry Gijbels at h.gijbels@ucc.ie to confirm that you have made the bank transfer and provide Harry with your Complete Name and Email Address. Harry will then forward your email to Onlinevents, who will register you to the event. You will receive an email once they have registered you.

A single bank transfer, covering more places, can also be made, as long as an email to Harry Gijbels clarifies the booking in which all the Complete Names and Email Addresses of applicants are included.

Making a payment in the above way is consent for HVNI to share your name and email address with ONLINEVENTS LTD”

Account details:

Harry GijbelsIBAN: IE72AIBK93012103915016
BIC: AIBKIE2D
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 03915016
NSC: 930121

We hope you can join us. For any more information, please email us on info@hearingvoicesnetworkireland.ie

The Online Congress Venue (Irish Standard Timezone):

Zoom platform, managed and facilitated by Onlinevents

Congress Programme

1 September: Intervoice Day

2 and 3 September: World Hearing Voices Congress

Intervoice Day (1st September)

A day for people involved in the Hearing Voices Movement to come together, share experiences, and hear about new initiatives around the world. The day will consist of speakers, open space discussions about topics decided by attendees and the chance to share what is happening in Hearing Voices Networks across the globe. The Intervoice Day is organised by members of the Intervoice Board.

World Hearing Voices Congress (2nd and 3rd September)

Each day will consist of keynote presentations and concurrent workshops/presentations. We hope to provide opportunities for all time zones to have the opportunity to engage with the Congress.

Keynote Talk on Demedicalising Distress in Powys, September 2013

Watch my recent talk on Demedicalising Distress in Powys on YouTube.

http://youtu.be/JHzHliy5yeQ

The Powys Mental Health team invites you to a free conference they are organising in in Llandrindod Wells.

Shaping Services Together.

  • Should the question underpinning how we shape our mental health services be “what has happened to you” rather than “what is wrong with you”?  Main Speaker Jacqui Dillon.
  • Do you use or have you ever used mental health services or are you close  to someone who has?  Do you think that your experiences of mental  health services could help change how services are planned and  delivered?
  • Do you want to know how you, no matter what your age, might become more involved in shaping our mental health services nationally and locally?
  • Key decision makers coming. Do you have something to say about the welfare benefit system and the changes?

Everyone welcome, all you need is you to be interested in the questions above. We can provide free transport to you if you live in Powys.

Lunch and refreshments will be available.

Thursday, 19th September 2013, 10:15 a.m – 4:00 p.m. The Pavilion, Spa Road, Llandrindod Wells, Powys LD1 5EY

To Book or find out more call Glynis Luke on 01597 822 191 or email her at pamhinfo@pavo.org.uk or book online here This is your opportunity to debate and communicate directly with national and local decision makers about mental health services.

Our keynote speaker is Jacqui Dillon, writer, campaigner, international speaker and trainer.

English poster here and leaflet here.  Welsh poster here and leaflet here

This is one of three conferences across Wales funded and supported by Welsh Government and Public HealtH Wales.  The other two are:

  • Thurs 12th September in Rhyl called Measuring Up.  More here.
  • Wed 23rd October in Cardiff called Know Your Rights.  More here.

These events are part of the Stronger in Partnership initiative, you can find out more about Powys Stronger in Partnership here.

You can download some information about the event here and there is more on our blog here.

Booking for the event is now open – click here.

 

A presentation by Jacqui Dillon at Carina Håkansson’s Family Care Conference in Sweden from Mad In America

BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO YOU CAN DRIVE YOU CRAZY

Jacqui Dillon, the national chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England, discusses the work of the Hearing Voices Movement at the recent conference  ‘Presence and Participation: Arguments for the Humanistic and Sustainable Work We Do’ hosted by Carina Håkansson’s Family Care Foundation in Sweden (25-27 April 2013). To listen to Jacqui’s presentation, please click here.

The full conference proceedings are available via live streaming video on MadinAmerica.com.

Book Me

Please contact me if you would like to book me for conferences, training or consultancy work – or to explore how these might benefit your organisation.

Organisations I have worked with in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, UK and USA include:

  • Aarhus Kommune (Denmark)
  • Advocates, Inc. Framingham (USA)
  • Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
  • Asylum Associates
  • Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
  • Beside Mental Health Community Project
  • Building Bridges Trust (New Zealand)
  • Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
  • Camden and Islington Providers Forum
  • Care Services Improvement Services
  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust
  • Chester Mind
  • City & Hackney Mind
  • Community Service Volunteers
  • Core Arts
  • Critical Voices Network (Ireland)
  • Dansk Selskab for Psykosocial Rehabilitering (Denmark)
  • Down & Lisburn Mental Health Trust (Ireland)
  • Division of Clinical Psychology
  • Durham University
  • Enfield Council
  • Equinox Care
  • Family Care Foundation (Sweden)
  • Family Tree
  • Family Welfare Association
  • Foundation Excellence in Mental Health (USA)
  • Freedom Centre, Northampton, Massachusetts, (USA)
  • Freud’s Friends
  • Gateway Community Health, Wodonga (Australia)
  • Goldsmiths University
  • Hampshire Social Services
  • Hearing Voices Network
  • Hellenic Hearing Voices Network (Greece)
  • Hertfordshire County Council
  • HM Prison Birmingham
  • Institute of Psychiatry
  • Intervoice
  • IGPB (Netherlands)
  • ISPS (New Zealand)
  • ISPS (UK)
  • Islington Mind
  • Lambeth Mind
  • Lancaster University
  • Leeds Mind
  • Lincoln University
  • London Borough of Sutton
  • London Cyrenians Housing Ltd.
  • London Development Centre
  • London Metropolitan University
  • London South Bank University
  • Loughborough University
  • Mad in America (USA)
  • The Market Place Leeds
  • Mental Health Media
  • Middlesbrough Mind
  • Mind in Camden
  • Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, (USA)
  • National Mind
  • Network for Change
  • Newham NHS Trust
  • Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
  • Northampton Social Services
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Notting Hill Housing Association
  • National Survivor User Network
  • One Housing Group
  • Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
  • Prahran Mission (Australia)
  • Psykovision (Denmark)
  • Rampton Hospital, Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Rethink
  • Richmond Fellowship (Australia)
  • Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
  • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
  • Royal College Of Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Ireland
  • SHIP Leeds
  • Shropshire Council
  • Social Care Institute for Excellence
  • South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust
  • Spring Lake Ranch (USA)
  • St James House
  • St Mungo’s
  • Sutton Mental Health Foundation
  • Thames Reach
  • Tiger Aspect Films
  • Tigerlily Films
  • Together
  • Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
  • University College Cork (Ireland)
  • University College London
  • University of Auckland (New Zealand)
  • University of East London
  • University of Essex
  • University of Greenwich
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Savonna (Italy)
  • University Of Surrey
  • Voice Collective
  • Voices of the Heart (USA)
  • Voices Vic (Australia)
  • Western Mass Recovery Learning Community (USA)
  • Westminster Mind
  • Wolverhampton Social Services
  • Working to Recovery

Conferences

Jacqui giving a presentation

Conferences:

I am an experienced and accomplished public speaker. I have spoken at numerous national and international conferences and events for both statutory and non-government organisations.

I have been a keynote speaker at a variety of events on a diverse range of subjects. My specialist areas of expertise are:

  • Personal experiences of ‘madness’ and recovery
  • Hearing voices and ‘psychosis’
  • Critiquing biomedical approaches to madness and distress
  • Trauma and abuse
  • Ritual abuse
  • Dissociation and multiplicity

Work

The following is an overview of the services I offer. All of my work is covered by Professional Indemnity Insurance. Please see the above sections for more details.

Training:Jacqui at a conference

The training I offer is based on extensive personal and professional experience, knowledge and skills. All training is experiential enabling participants to develop a deeper understanding and greater insight by exploring experiences from both a subjective and objective perspective. All training is bespoke so it can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation

Consultancy:

I can offer my unique perspective of working with and making sense of profound distress and extreme states of mind and the impact it has on individuals, teams and organizations. I also have extensive experience in working collaboratively, creatively and in partnership with disempowered and disenfranchised individuals and groups to bring about sustained and lasting improved positive outcomes. I have provided coaching and mentoring, supervision and consultancy to individuals, teams and organisations.

Conferences:

I am an experienced and accomplished public speaker. I have spoken at numerous national and international conferences and events for both statutory and non-government organisations. I have been a keynote speaker at a variety of events on a diverse range of subjects.

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Intervoice Congress 2021

The 12th World Hearing Voices Congress, Online, 1 – 3 September 2021.

“Solidarity in Times of Adversity:

The Global Voice Hearing Community Reconnecting”

Congress Theme

Over the past 18 months, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented challenge across the globe, which many of us will have experienced as disconnecting, isolating, frightening, chaotic, overwhelming, and, at times, unbearable. However, the pandemic has also shown the power of solidarity when communities come together to offer each other support in times of adversity.

This year’s Congress will create spaces for voice hearers, family members, carers, practitioners, academics, and all those interested in the principles and values of the International Hearing Voices Movement, to connect and/or reconnect with one another in a post-pandemic world, either in person in Cork, Ireland or online across the globe. Drawing on two ancient Irish traditions, the Congress organisers aim to provide a platform (ardán*) to focus on the ways in which many voices can work together, supporting each other in difficult times (meitheal*).

*Ardán (pronounced ar-dawn) is an Irish word meaning platform, stage, but it is also used in the context of ‘raising one spirits’!

*Meitheal (pronounced meh-hill) is the Irish expression of the ancient and universal appliance of cooperation to social need, referring to the co-operative labour system in Ireland where neighbours help each other in turn with farming work, such as harvesting crops. It establishes community unity through cooperative work and mutually reciprocal support.

Confirmed Speakers:

Jacqui Dillon (UK), will open the Congress, Rai Waddingham (UK), Cindy Marty Hadge (USA), Peter Bullimore (UK), Hearing Voices Network Athens (Greece), Adi Hasanbasic (Czech Republic), Kate Fiske (Australia) – The Listening to Voices Project. 

Congress Format

Congress will have online format. Delegates will be able to access all the keynote presentations, all the online concurrent sessions, and all the networking sessions. See Registration details below.

Registration Details

Click Here to Register via credit card or see below for registration and bank transfer payment option.

Registrants will be able to attend all keynote presentations, online concurrent sessions, all networking sessions, and all online events offered during breaks.

Fees:
Intervoice Day (1 day) and Congress Days (2 Days)

Voice Hearers/Students: Sterling £45.00 or Euro €53.00

Practitioners: Sterling £65.00 or Euro €75.00

For those of you who do not have access to a credit card to buy a ticket for the Congress, you may send your payment via PayPal or bank transfer to the bank account of Harry Gijbels, HVNI Treasurer.

Payment can be made in Euro (€53.00 for voice hearers/students and €75.00 for professionals) or Sterling (£45.00 for voice hearers/students and £65.00 for professionals).

Please make sure you mention Intervoice Congress in the reference line when you transfer the money.

You also need to send an email to Harry Gijbels at h.gijbels@ucc.ie to confirm that you have made the bank transfer and provide Harry with your Complete Name and Email Address. Harry will then forward your email to Onlinevents, who will register you to the event. You will receive an email once they have registered you.

A single bank transfer, covering more places, can also be made, as long as an email to Harry Gijbels clarifies the booking in which all the Complete Names and Email Addresses of applicants are included.

Making a payment in the above way is consent for HVNI to share your name and email address with ONLINEVENTS LTD”

Account details:

Harry GijbelsIBAN: IE72AIBK93012103915016
BIC: AIBKIE2D
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 03915016
NSC: 930121

We hope you can join us. For any more information, please email us on info@hearingvoicesnetworkireland.ie

The Online Congress Venue (Irish Standard Timezone):

Zoom platform, managed and facilitated by Onlinevents

Congress Programme

1 September: Intervoice Day

2 and 3 September: World Hearing Voices Congress

Intervoice Day (1st September)

A day for people involved in the Hearing Voices Movement to come together, share experiences, and hear about new initiatives around the world. The day will consist of speakers, open space discussions about topics decided by attendees and the chance to share what is happening in Hearing Voices Networks across the globe. The Intervoice Day is organised by members of the Intervoice Board.

World Hearing Voices Congress (2nd and 3rd September)

Each day will consist of keynote presentations and concurrent workshops/presentations. We hope to provide opportunities for all time zones to have the opportunity to engage with the Congress.

Keynote Talk on Demedicalising Distress in Powys, September 2013

Watch my recent talk on Demedicalising Distress in Powys on YouTube.

http://youtu.be/JHzHliy5yeQ

The Powys Mental Health team invites you to a free conference they are organising in in Llandrindod Wells.

Shaping Services Together.

  • Should the question underpinning how we shape our mental health services be “what has happened to you” rather than “what is wrong with you”?  Main Speaker Jacqui Dillon.
  • Do you use or have you ever used mental health services or are you close  to someone who has?  Do you think that your experiences of mental  health services could help change how services are planned and  delivered?
  • Do you want to know how you, no matter what your age, might become more involved in shaping our mental health services nationally and locally?
  • Key decision makers coming. Do you have something to say about the welfare benefit system and the changes?

Everyone welcome, all you need is you to be interested in the questions above. We can provide free transport to you if you live in Powys.

Lunch and refreshments will be available.

Thursday, 19th September 2013, 10:15 a.m – 4:00 p.m. The Pavilion, Spa Road, Llandrindod Wells, Powys LD1 5EY

To Book or find out more call Glynis Luke on 01597 822 191 or email her at pamhinfo@pavo.org.uk or book online here This is your opportunity to debate and communicate directly with national and local decision makers about mental health services.

Our keynote speaker is Jacqui Dillon, writer, campaigner, international speaker and trainer.

English poster here and leaflet here.  Welsh poster here and leaflet here

This is one of three conferences across Wales funded and supported by Welsh Government and Public HealtH Wales.  The other two are:

  • Thurs 12th September in Rhyl called Measuring Up.  More here.
  • Wed 23rd October in Cardiff called Know Your Rights.  More here.

These events are part of the Stronger in Partnership initiative, you can find out more about Powys Stronger in Partnership here.

You can download some information about the event here and there is more on our blog here.

Booking for the event is now open – click here.

 

A presentation by Jacqui Dillon at Carina Håkansson’s Family Care Conference in Sweden from Mad In America

BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO YOU CAN DRIVE YOU CRAZY

Jacqui Dillon, the national chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England, discusses the work of the Hearing Voices Movement at the recent conference  ‘Presence and Participation: Arguments for the Humanistic and Sustainable Work We Do’ hosted by Carina Håkansson’s Family Care Foundation in Sweden (25-27 April 2013). To listen to Jacqui’s presentation, please click here.

The full conference proceedings are available via live streaming video on MadinAmerica.com.

Book Me

Please contact me if you would like to book me for conferences, training or consultancy work – or to explore how these might benefit your organisation.

Organisations I have worked with in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, UK and USA include:

  • Aarhus Kommune (Denmark)
  • Advocates, Inc. Framingham (USA)
  • Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
  • Asylum Associates
  • Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
  • Beside Mental Health Community Project
  • Building Bridges Trust (New Zealand)
  • Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
  • Camden and Islington Providers Forum
  • Care Services Improvement Services
  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust
  • Chester Mind
  • City & Hackney Mind
  • Community Service Volunteers
  • Core Arts
  • Critical Voices Network (Ireland)
  • Dansk Selskab for Psykosocial Rehabilitering (Denmark)
  • Down & Lisburn Mental Health Trust (Ireland)
  • Division of Clinical Psychology
  • Durham University
  • Enfield Council
  • Equinox Care
  • Family Care Foundation (Sweden)
  • Family Tree
  • Family Welfare Association
  • Foundation Excellence in Mental Health (USA)
  • Freedom Centre, Northampton, Massachusetts, (USA)
  • Freud’s Friends
  • Gateway Community Health, Wodonga (Australia)
  • Goldsmiths University
  • Hampshire Social Services
  • Hearing Voices Network
  • Hellenic Hearing Voices Network (Greece)
  • Hertfordshire County Council
  • HM Prison Birmingham
  • Institute of Psychiatry
  • Intervoice
  • IGPB (Netherlands)
  • ISPS (New Zealand)
  • ISPS (UK)
  • Islington Mind
  • Lambeth Mind
  • Lancaster University
  • Leeds Mind
  • Lincoln University
  • London Borough of Sutton
  • London Cyrenians Housing Ltd.
  • London Development Centre
  • London Metropolitan University
  • London South Bank University
  • Loughborough University
  • Mad in America (USA)
  • The Market Place Leeds
  • Mental Health Media
  • Middlesbrough Mind
  • Mind in Camden
  • Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, (USA)
  • National Mind
  • Network for Change
  • Newham NHS Trust
  • Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
  • Northampton Social Services
  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Notting Hill Housing Association
  • National Survivor User Network
  • One Housing Group
  • Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
  • Prahran Mission (Australia)
  • Psykovision (Denmark)
  • Rampton Hospital, Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Rethink
  • Richmond Fellowship (Australia)
  • Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
  • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
  • Royal College Of Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Ireland
  • SHIP Leeds
  • Shropshire Council
  • Social Care Institute for Excellence
  • South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust
  • Spring Lake Ranch (USA)
  • St James House
  • St Mungo’s
  • Sutton Mental Health Foundation
  • Thames Reach
  • Tiger Aspect Films
  • Tigerlily Films
  • Together
  • Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
  • University College Cork (Ireland)
  • University College London
  • University of Auckland (New Zealand)
  • University of East London
  • University of Essex
  • University of Greenwich
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Savonna (Italy)
  • University Of Surrey
  • Voice Collective
  • Voices of the Heart (USA)
  • Voices Vic (Australia)
  • Western Mass Recovery Learning Community (USA)
  • Westminster Mind
  • Wolverhampton Social Services
  • Working to Recovery

Conferences

Jacqui giving a presentation

Conferences:

I am an experienced and accomplished public speaker. I have spoken at numerous national and international conferences and events for both statutory and non-government organisations.

I have been a keynote speaker at a variety of events on a diverse range of subjects. My specialist areas of expertise are:

  • Personal experiences of ‘madness’ and recovery
  • Hearing voices and ‘psychosis’
  • Critiquing biomedical approaches to madness and distress
  • Trauma and abuse
  • Ritual abuse
  • Dissociation and multiplicity

Work

The following is an overview of the services I offer. All of my work is covered by Professional Indemnity Insurance. Please see the above sections for more details.

Training:Jacqui at a conference

The training I offer is based on extensive personal and professional experience, knowledge and skills. All training is experiential enabling participants to develop a deeper understanding and greater insight by exploring experiences from both a subjective and objective perspective. All training is bespoke so it can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation

Consultancy:

I can offer my unique perspective of working with and making sense of profound distress and extreme states of mind and the impact it has on individuals, teams and organizations. I also have extensive experience in working collaboratively, creatively and in partnership with disempowered and disenfranchised individuals and groups to bring about sustained and lasting improved positive outcomes. I have provided coaching and mentoring, supervision and consultancy to individuals, teams and organisations.

Conferences:

I am an experienced and accomplished public speaker. I have spoken at numerous national and international conferences and events for both statutory and non-government organisations. I have been a keynote speaker at a variety of events on a diverse range of subjects.