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We believe people can and do recover from "mental illness" - because we are living it. We believe in the power of supporting each other: learning from and with each other. You are welcome to join us..

Workshop #2 Working With Voices: May 24 & 25th 2018


This two-day workshop follows from Workshop #1 Accepting Voices If you support others with their voices and are looking for ways you can better understand and work with voices and other experiences that get called “psychosis”.  You will also gain … Continue reading

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Accepting Voices @ UoT Fri 23rd Mar 2018


Unique,  innovative and insight-filled workshop led by Kevin Healey recipient of INTERVOICE’s International Award for Innovation, 2016. We welcome workers, professionals,  students, professors, administrators, family members, friends, humans. We are all touched by experiences that get called psychosis , indeed, … Continue reading

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Hearing Voices Calendar – Feb to May 2018


Calendar summarizing Hearing Voices activities across Southern Ontario  …and Calgary too! For the period…    Feb to Mar 2018.         Bigger Version below – printer friendly  version here : HV Calendar early 2018

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Some voices have all the fun…


Voices eh? Most are a lot like humans you know or have known and also a lot like you. – some, maybe, mirror the parts of you that you like others, parts you don’t much like. Some voices don’t make … Continue reading

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Accepting Voices 4 Families – Whitby, ON – Thu 5th April 2018


This event is offered especially for family members and supporters to participate in this ground-breaking, innovative workshop that will enable you to transform your own understanding of experiences that get mystified and called “psychosis”; to make connections with trauma and … Continue reading

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Street Livin’ – Black Eyed Peas


Streets, streets Livin’ in the streets Street livin’, caught in the trap Guns or books, sell crack or rap Be like kings or be like pawns They called us coons, now they call us cons Street niggas be packing pistols … Continue reading

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Sand vests in school for kids who cannot but help being kids…


Note that a sand vest is not the vest you wear while having fun in the sand pit- it’s teh heavy sand filled vest kids are being forced to wear in class to stop them moving “too much” in classes … Continue reading

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Grounding Trauma Conference 2018 : Challenging Paradigms. 17th, 18th April 2018


Very pleased to have been invited to co-present with Jennifer Wynne a the CAST Grounding Trauma Conference 2018. Neither trauma nor difficult experiences that called names like “psychosis” are as mysterious or hard to understand as many experts would have … Continue reading

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Chris Evans on learning to live with his “noisy brain”


Captain America offers a little peer support. Continue reading

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Nobody – Niia


I don’t even like your type of pain You don’t even ask me what’s my name Lyrics I don’t even like your type of pain You don’t even ask me what’s my name We just fit together like wet on … Continue reading

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