What happens at a Hearing Voices Cafe?
Like any other café anywhere, people come together to meet, enjoy something to drink and something good to eat, talk, listen, maybe learn something, share and enjoy the experience.
If you hear voices, see visions, spirits, or not, or if you are curious about our own experiences, or if, maybe if you are just wondering where you can talk about experiences that you have but that no one talks about – then this may just be that place.
We invite you to come join a different, more curious conversation about the many ways that we can experience being human, including those that are not easy to talk about.
Or, since the café is open as normal, you can simply visit, enjoy a coffee, tea, a snack or light meal – in the conversation and hear the polyphony of many voices.
Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto
meets First Monday of the month at
Coffee and All That Jazz
Roncesvalles, Toronto.
If you think hearing voices is solely the result of a broken brain, a degenerative brain disease then we invite you to think again.
Research shows that:
– 4 to 15% of us hear voices on a regular basis- that’s at least 300 million of us.
– 75% of us will have at least one experience of hearing a voice that others don’t hear.
Most who do find it valuable, others are learning how they can too.
Of those who do struggle, research shows that 70-80% relate the difficult experience with voices to distressing events in earlier life.
Individuals who experience severe distress in early years can be up to 195 times more likely to be diagnosed with “serious mental illness” in adult hood.
It is time for a different story.
If you are curious, then come join us at the Hearing Voices Cafe
– or start your own where you live.
https://recoverynetworktoronto.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/hearing-voices-cafe-toronto/
Here’s a brief segment from CBC Radio’s Metro Morning with Matt Galloway aired on Tue 3rd Nov 2015 at 6:25am.
Reporter-Editor Mary Wiens spent time talking with folks at The Hearing Voices Cafe, Toronto. Many thanks to Mary, Matt, at Metro Morning and to Sue and David at Coffee and All that Jazz.
More about the hearing voices cafe…
Hearing Voices Cafe – a Pamphlet
Hearing Voices Café Toronto-Pamphlet-Oct2015
Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto
The Hearing Voices Cafe
The Hearing Voices Cafe Newspaper
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Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto
About Hearing Voices
On The Radio
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