This compassionate and trauma informed training offers an accessible introduction to the Hearing Voices Approach, centring lived experience, emotional safety, curiosity, and meaningful human connection. Designed for professionals, carers, peer workers, organisations, and community members alike, the training invites participants to explore voice hearing and other unusual or distressing experiences through a non-judgemental, person-centred lens.

Moving beyond stigma, fear, and purely clinical understandings, this training encourages deeper reflection on the relationship between trauma, adversity, emotional wellbeing, and voice hearing experiences. Participants are supported to develop greater confidence in responding with empathy, compassion, and respect while learning practical ways to foster safety, trust, and supportive conversations.

Grounded in both professional expertise and personal lived experience, the training creates space for open dialogue, shared learning, and authentic connection. Participants will gain insight into the values and principles of the international Hearing Voices Movement, while developing practical skills that can be applied within workplaces, services, community settings, and everyday interactions.

This training can be tailored for organisations, mental health teams, peer support settings, educational environments, community groups, and carers seeking a more humane, relational, and trauma informed approach to understanding distress and supporting recovery.

What can the Hearing Voices Approach teach professionals, teams, and systems about maintaining compassion under pressure? This reflective and trauma informed training explores how services and practitioners can continue to respond with humanity, curiosity, and connection even within environments shaped by risk, crisis, burnout, and systemic pressure.

Designed for professionals, leadership teams, organisations, and support services, this training creates space to thoughtfully examine the emotional impact of working within high-pressure systems and the ways that stress, fear, urgency, and organisational culture can influence relationships, communication, and care. Drawing from the values of the Hearing Voices Approach alongside lived experience and professional practice, participants are invited to reflect on how systems can unintentionally silence, pathologise, or disconnect people experiencing distress and how compassionate alternatives can be cultivated.

Through trauma informed reflection and collaborative discussion, participants will explore practical approaches to creating emotionally safer, more relational, and person-centred responses within professional settings. The training encourages deeper understanding of how distress, voice hearing, and trauma may present in complex ways, while supporting teams to strengthen empathy, reflective practice, emotional resilience, and meaningful engagement.

Participants will gain insight into:

Maintaining compassionate practice in challenging environments

Understanding the impact of trauma, power, and systems on wellbeing

Supporting relational safety and trust within services

Responding to distress with curiosity rather than fear or control

Encouraging reflective, collaborative, and recovery-oriented approaches

Reducing stigma and fostering more humane systems of care

This training is particularly valuable for mental health services, peer work settings, healthcare organisations, crisis teams, education providers, leadership groups, and community services seeking to strengthen compassionate and trauma informed practice across teams and systems.

This creative and practical training explores innovative ways of understanding and working alongside voice hearing experiences through tools embedded within the Hearing Voices Approach. Centring curiosity, collaboration, and compassion, the training introduces participants to a range of reflective and relational practices that support deeper understanding, increased confidence, and more meaningful engagement with distressing or unusual experiences.

Participants will be introduced to approaches such as Voice Profiling, Voice Dialoguing, and Voice Mapping, creative tools that help individuals explore the meaning, patterns, relationships, and emotional context connected to their voices and experiences. Rather than focusing solely on symptom management or reduction, these approaches encourage compassionate exploration, helping people build greater self-understanding, agency, and safer ways of relating to their experiences.

Grounded in both lived experience and professional practice, this training combines theory, reflection, discussion, and practical exercises to support participants in developing skills they can apply within therapeutic, peer, community, or support settings. The training creates a safe and engaging learning environment where participants are encouraged to think creatively, challenge traditional assumptions, and develop more person-centred ways of working.

Participants will explore:

Introduction to Voice Profiling and understanding voice characteristics

Using Voice Mapping to identify patterns, relationships, and triggers

Exploring Voice Dialoguing as a relational and compassionate practice

Developing curiosity and confidence when discussing voices and distress

Supporting empowerment, meaning-making, and emotional safety

Creative and collaborative approaches to trauma informed support

This training is suitable for peer workers, mental health professionals, support workers, counsellors, community organisations, educators, and anyone seeking practical and innovative ways to work alongside voice hearing and distress with compassion and confidence.

This engaging and skills-based training is designed for people interested in developing, facilitating, or strengthening Hearing Voices Groups grounded in the values and principles of the international Hearing Voices Movement. Centring lived experience, collaboration, mutual respect, and emotional safety, the training supports participants to build the confidence, understanding, and practical skills needed to create meaningful peer support spaces where people feel heard, valued, and connected.

Hearing Voices Groups offer an alternative, non-pathologising approach to understanding voice hearing, unusual experiences, and distress. Rather than focusing on diagnosis or symptom reduction, groups create opportunities for people to share experiences openly, explore meaning, reduce isolation, and build supportive relationships through shared understanding and mutual learning.

This training explores both the philosophy and practical foundations of Hearing Voices Group facilitation, helping participants understand how to nurture groups that are inclusive, compassionate, trauma informed, and responsive to the diverse needs of members. Participants will develop skills in group facilitation, reflective listening, boundary setting, emotional safety, navigating challenging dynamics, and supporting collaborative discussion without judgement or hierarchy.

Participants will explore:

The history, values, and principles of the Hearing Voices Movement

Creating and sustaining safe, inclusive, and empowering group spaces

Foundations of peer support and mutual learning

Facilitation skills for compassionate and collaborative group practice

Responding to distress and emotional intensity within groups

Navigating group dynamics, boundaries, and conflict with care

Encouraging participation, connection, and shared understanding

Building groups that centre lived experience, hope, and empowerment

Grounded in both lived experience and professional expertise, this training combines discussion, reflection, practical exercises, and experiential learning to support participants in developing authentic and sustainable group facilitation practices.

This training is suitable for peer workers, community organisers, mental health professionals, support workers, organisations, and individuals interested in creating or facilitating Hearing Voices Groups within community, service, educational, or peer-led settings.