2 day skills based workshop by National Paranoia Network, 15 & 16 May

1st Floor Office, Victoria House, Victoria Viaduct, Carlisle, (Above Tesco)

15 & 16 May 2013

10.00 am - 4.30 pm

 Facilitators: Peter Bullimore, Chris Tandy and Kate Crawford

Workshop Content

Day 1

• History of understanding hearing voices and paranoia beyond a psychiatric perspective
• The three stages of voice hearing

• Voice profiling
• Focussing Techniques
• Coping Strategies

• Making sense of paranoia
• The three stages of paranoia
• Making sense of ‘Unusual Beliefs’
• Trauma and paranoia
• Personal Experience of recovery
• Deconstructing voices

Day 2

• What are self-help groups?
• Why start a group?
• Getting started
• Getting into the group
• Facilitation
• Developing communication skills
• Coping with difficult members
• Keeping going

Workshop Outcomes

Day 1

• Take a critical and thoughtful     perspective on traditional ways of understanding voice hearing and paranoia.
• Understand the potential connection between trauma voice hearing and paranoia.
• Gain a contemporary understanding of paranoia and other alternative beliefs.
• Construct a collaborative understanding of hearing voices and paranoia with service users in a respectful, ethical and therapeutic manner.

Day 2

• To gain skills to set up and sustain support groups.

• To equip staff with the skills and knowledge to understand and support their clients experiences within a group setting
• To help service users gain a better insight into their experience by attending the support groups, enabling them to continue to get peer support from each other outside of the group.