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The Hearing Voices Movement: In Dialogue with Voices

with Caroline Mazel-Carlton

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Caroline Mazel-Carlton

CAROLINE’S STORY

CAROLINE’S STORY

Feel themselves to be stronger than the voices Communicate more often about and to their voices Set limits and listen selectively to their voices Use fewer distraction techniques

Romme & Escher, Accepting Voices

§ Acknowledged the reality of our experience and the right to talk about it

§ Valued voice-hearer driven spaces… while at the same time being open to allies.

§ Emphasizes that voice-hearing is not a symptom of an bio-chemical abnormality and instead represents a wide umbrella of human experiences

(Or cannot be attributed to the long-term use of anti-dopaminergic drugs)

Well funded ongoing brain research continues to demonstrate that:

§  Parts

§  Ancestors or Past Lives

§  Spirit Guides

§  Extraterrestrial Communication

§  Satellite Transmission

§  Divine Messengers

§  Possession States

§  Trauma Echoes

§  Government Control

§  Multiplicity

§  How old does the Voice sound?

§  Does the Voice have a gender?

§  What does the Voice say and how?

§  Does the Voice sound like anyone you know?

§  What does the Voice value?

§  When is the Voice more present?

§  When did the Voice first come along?

§  What was happening in your life at the time the Voice first came along?

§  What could be significant life events?

§ Ages of the voices might point to significant life events.

§ Critical voices echoing a negative message you have received in the past.

§ Lost loved ones.

§ For veterans especially voices of people you were in combat with (including enemy combatants or people killed while deployed).

§ Protector Voice or spiritual guide that comes at a critical point.

§ A Voice that holds past distress in certain situations.

§ A Voice that serves as a reminder of an anniversary of an event.

§ Cultural and/or Spiritual symbolism.

§ Voices starting in the year after a major trauma.

§ Making an appointment.

§ Half-way compliance with voice’s demands.

§ Practicing saying No.

§ Discovering you are not alone

§ Using the tools in one’s framework, for example psychic blocking.

§ Testing a Voice’s power.

§ Building Compassion for Voices

§ Dialogue with Voices

§ Respectful and Trusting Relationship

§ WITH CONSENT – of The Hearer and the Voice

§ The Hearer and the Voice have the right to stop the dialogue at any time

§ Option to record the Dialogue by taking notes or audio recording… (this is specifically for the voice-hearer)

TRANSLATOR

Facilitator: “Joe, can you ask Voice how long he has been in your life?”

(give space for Voice to respond)

Joe: translating what Voice says in own words He says he has been in my life for a long time.

REPORTER

Facilitator: “Voice, how long have you been in Joe’s life?”

(give space for Voice to respond)

Joe: reporting what Voice says verbatim “Joe was so small and I was always there”.

§ How are you?

§ What is important to you? What is your job?

§ What do you want for ........... ?

§ What would .......'s life be like if you were not there?

§ How does ..... relate to you?

§ How long have you been in .....'s life?

§ What is your relationship with ……?

§ Would you like anything to change in your relationship with ........... ?

§ Do you have any advice for .... ?

§ What do you wish would change in ……’s life?

§ Expression of Gratitude to Voice for what was shared.

§ Transition out of the Dialogue.

§ Give the Hearer time and space to reflect on the experience. There may be some new information or emotion to process.

“Thank you, Voice, for speaking with me. I am going to check in with Caroline now. Caroline, how are you doing?

§ Neurofeedback and EMDR.

§ Dialogue and Group Process that involves talking about BOTH traumatic events and accessing emotions.

§ Connecting with animals.

§ Drumming, Singing in a choir, making music.

§ Yoga, meditation and other forms of spiritual practice.

§ Building community and relationships.

§ Studies now indicate primarily these two factors mitigate who will develop distressing voices in response to a trauma later in life.

Three Freedoms §  Freedom to interpret our

experiences in any way

§  Freedom to talk about anything, not just voices and visions

§  Freedom to challenge social norms

Community Building §  Mutual respect, support and

empathy

§  Social group not clinical group

§  No one expert; all are experts

There are 112 Full Charter HVN Groups Around the US

HVN AROUND THE WORLD

The 11th World Hearing Voices Congress will take place in Montreal, Canada on November 11th-13th.Netherlands, September 12-15 2018.

§ Australia

§ Austria

§ Belgium

§ Bosnia/

Herzegovina

§ Brazil

§ Canada

§ Denmark

§ England

§ Finland

§ France

§ Germany

§ Greece

§ Holland

§ Ireland

§ Italy

� Japan

� Kenya

� Malaysia

� Malta

� New Zealand

� Norway

� Palestine

� Scotland

� South Africa

� Spain

� Sweden

� Switzerland

� Tanzania

� Uganda

� United States of

America

� Wales

CONTACT:

caroline@westernmassrlc.org

Certificates are a Member Benefit

If you are a member of iNAPS, you can send an email requesting a quiz for webinar #39 to: membership@inaops.org

After you complete the quiz you will receive a certificate.

Allow 1-2 weeks for the certificate to be processed by our volunteers