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Living with Voices: Can you help us build an app for young people who hear voices?
We’re looking for a group of young people (aged 16–25) with first-hand experience of hearing voices who would like to work with us to build a pilot version of our Living with Voices app. Later this month we will be running a series of three online workshops in which we’ll co-design the app and develop its features together. Workshops will take place on Monday 21 March, 28 March and 4 April (6–7.30pm).
Dialogues from Babel (Edinburgh, 4 March 2022, 7.30pm; Newcastle upon Tyne, 7pm)
We are delighted to announce that a rehearsed reading of Dialogues from Babel will take place in Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne next month. Drawn from interviews with voice-hearers and novelists, the play weaves together conversations that unfold to illuminate the experience of hearing a voice that no one else can hear.
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Living with Voices: Can you help us build an app for young people who hear voices?
We’re looking for a group of young people (aged 16–25) with first-hand experience of hearing voices who would like to work with us to build a pilot version of our Living with Voices app. Later this month we will be running a series of three online workshops in which we’ll co-design the app and develop its features together. Workshops will take place on Monday 21 March, 28 March and 4 April (6–7.30pm).
Dialogues from Babel (Edinburgh, 4 March 2022, 7.30pm; Newcastle upon Tyne, 7pm)
We are delighted to announce that a rehearsed reading of Dialogues from Babel will take place in Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne next month. Drawn from interviews with voice-hearers and novelists, the play weaves together conversations that unfold to illuminate the experience of hearing a voice that no one else can hear.
Living with Voices: A smartphone app for young people who hear distressing voices
In November last year we ran a short consultation to explore young voice-hearers’ responses to the question: Should we build a smartphone app for young people who hear voices? Encouraged by the results of the consultation, we put in an application for Durham’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Accelerator Awards. We’re delighted to announce that we were successful in our bid for funding for development of a Living with Voices pilot app.
Zines!
In September 2021, a group of young people who hear voices (aged 16–25) joined artist Liv Wynter and Voice Collective for four online workshops where they made digital zines exploring how hearing voices intersects with other aspects of their identity. We're delighted...
Supporting actor required for new BBC film about mental health
Lara Manwaring Casting seeks men, aged 40–65, based in London, who have heard voices, experienced psychosis or been in hospital for their mental health for a supporting role in a new BBC film about mental health.
Living with Voices: Should we make an app for young people who hear voices?
Back in 2018 we launched a new website, Understanding Voices (UV), to help support people who hear voices and their loved ones. We now have a chance to apply for funds to develop an app for young people who hear voices. If you’re aged 16–25 with personal experience of hearing voices, we’d love to hear what you think an app of this type should look like.
Announcing our new Royal College of Psychiatrists CPD eLearning module on hearing voices
Hearing the Voice is delighted to announce the release of our new Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) CPD eLearning module on ‘Phenomenology and treatment of voice hearing in psychiatric practice’. It is free to access (registration and login required) and is one of the first to feature on the RCPsych new eLearning hub.
Understanding Voices: New resources in ten languages!
Our ‘Quick Read’ information fact sheets about hearing voices have now been translated into the top 10 languages other than English spoken in the UK, including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Simple Chinese), French, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Punjabi, Spanish, and Urdu.
