Events | A Guide to Alternative Mental Health - Part 3

9th Annual World Hearing Voices Congress

Boston University Boston, MA, United States

Topics range from groups, personal testimony, and voice dialogue, to research, artistic endeavor and more. The Hearing Voices Movement is comprised of over 30 national networks from around the world joined by shared goals and values, including a fundamental belief that hearing voices, seeing visions and related phenomena are meaningful experiences that can be understood … Continued

Alternatives Conference 2017

Boston, MA, United States

The National Empowerment Center, a National Consumer Technical Assistance Center, is pleased to announce that the Alternatives Conference 2017 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Park Plaza from Friday evening, August 18 through Monday, August 21, 2017. Each Alternatives Conference offers in-depth technical assistance on peer-delivered services and self-help/recovery methods. The Alternatives … Continued

Breath-Body-Mind Teacher Training Level-1

Kripalu Yoga Center Lenox, MA, United States

For health-care professionals, therapists, yoga teachers, school teachers, military, and disaster relief workers. Breath-Body-Mind integrates ancient and modern trauma-sensitive techniques to rapidly balance stress-response systems for self-care and healing others. Developed by medical doctors Richard P. Brown and Patricia Gerbarg, Breath-Body-Mind has proven benefits for health-care professionals, patients, military veterans, and survivors of mass disasters, … Continued

Breath-Body-Mind Teacher Training Level-3

Kripalu Yoga Center Lenox, MA, United States

Develop skills to become leaders in training others. For health-care professionals, yoga teachers, schoolteachers, military, and disaster relief workers. Level-3 candidates attend Level-1 Teacher Training and learn how to train others to teach B-B-M practices, plan and run workshops, explain scientific principles, and create resource materials. Level-3s learn more advanced healing techniques and the use … Continued

20th International Congress of the ISPS (UK)

Liverpool, United Kingdom

International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis. Making Real Change Happen. Includes the valuable sharing of new research, ideas, and developments.

International Certification Training in Dialogic Practice: Module 2

Haydenfille, MA, United States

The 2017-2019 International Certification Training Program in Dialogic Practice meets the international standards for full training in Open Dialogue.  Faculty includes Jorma Ahonen, MSc, Nazlim Hagmann, MD, Mary Olson, PhD, Peter Rober, PhD and Jaakko Seikkula, PhD, together with international guest speakers. This three-year program is delivered in four intensives per year and taught by the … Continued