Who Are Voices Vic?
Uniting's Voices Vic is an award-winning and research supported specialist program improving the wellbeing and recovery of people who hear voices.
Led by peers with lived & living experience in hearing voices and mental health, Voices Vic provides dynamic recovery groups for adults & youth. We also facilitate trainings across Australia for organisations and individuals who work and care for voice hearers and voice hearers themselves.
What We Do?
Training:
Voices Vic has been delivering extensive training, workshops and providing mentoring support to the voice hearing community in Australia for over 15 years. Our team of professionals have lived & living experience of hearing voices and mental health recovery. We offer a range of trainings for mental health professionals, peer workers, voice hearers and family, friends & carers.
Hearing Voices Support Groups:
We offer support groups for young people (16 - 25) & adults (25+) who hear voices to share about their voices, learn coping strategies and empower themselves to take ownership of their voice hearing experience.
We also offer mentoring to organisations & individuals who would like to setup and facilitate a Hearing Voices support group using the Hearing Voices Approach.
Foundations of the Hearing Voices Approach:
- Hearing voices is a common human experience
- Recovery is about changing the relationship with the voices and transforming the voice hearers’ experiences to acceptance
- The experience of hearing voices is meaningful
- We define ‘hearing voices’ as an umbrella term used to refer to auditory, visual, olfactory sensory experiences, and beliefs that others around them do not experience
For any enquiries, please contact:
P: 9386 2876
General enquiries: vvadmin@vt.uniting.org
Training enquiries: vvtraining@vt.uniting.org
Youth enquiries: vvyouth@vt.uniting.org