HVNI AGM – 14 April 2021 (Online)

The HVNI Board, would like to invite people to attend the HVNI AGM 2021, which takes place on 14 April from 19.00 – 21.00 via a Zoom link.  The HVNI needs new Board members, if you are interested all you need to do is complete a nomination form with your details. They look forward to receiving nominations in advance of the meeting. If you are interested, or know of others who are, but are not sure what it entails, please email h.gijbels@ucc.ie.

In addition to the formal AGM procedures, the board look forward to hearing how HV related work is progressing across the country from individuals and/or from groups. They are interested to find out how voice hearers have dealt/are dealing with the challenges, caused by the pandemic. They would also like to hear how people have managed to continue with HV related activities in their areas.  The meeting will also have an Open Forum, where attendees will have an opportunity to share their experiences, ask questions and provide suggestions.

Peter Bullimore has kindly agreed to be the guest speaker, sharing his insights and experiences of supporting the hearing voices community over the last year.

Provisional schedule:

19.00 Welcome to AGM, overview of HVNI activities over the last year

19.15 Peter Bullimore, guest speaker

19.45 Open Forum

20.30 Nominations for HVNI Board and election of Board members

21.00 AGM finishes

To express your interest in attending the AGM, please email Harry Gijbels at h.gijbels@ucc.ie.  You will receive a Zoom link by email a few days in advance of the meeting.

All details, including the nomination form, will also be available on the HVNI website:  http://hearingvoicesnetworkireland.ie

Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing Notice of Annual General Meeting 8th October 2019

On behalf of Imelda Noone (on Term Time) Company Secretary IIMHN:

Notification is served of the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing, Annual General Meeting for Wednesday 8th October 2019 at 14.00 pm. in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Room 1.24.  A request is issued for Agenda items to be submitted to secretary@iimhn.ie. 

Closing date for submissions Wednesday 1st October 2019.

Best practice principles on developing LGBT cultural competence in health and social care education launched

The ‘Being Me’ Consortium, an EU funded project looking at supporting the social inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) older people who use healthcare and wellbeing services, has launched best practice principles on developing LGBT cultural competence in health and social care education. The document outlines principles regarding inclusive education for older LGBT people within educational curricula.

You can download the guidelines here.

IIMHN Conference details for 2019 – Cancelled

The Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing annual conference due to take place in the School of Nursing and Midwifery University of Limerick on Thursday May 16th and Friday May 17th 2019 is being re-scheduled to later in the year.

We will notify members of the re-scheduled date and venue as soon as we confirm them.

It is likely that the conference will re-locate to a Dublin based venue

Understanding Mental Health – DCU Announces Public Lecture Series 2019

The School of Nursing and Human Sciences, DCU has announces it’s forthcoming series of public lectures for 2019.  The events are open to the public and are free.  They run from 7pm-8.30pm on the following dates.

6th March
Living with suicide and suicide related behaviours – responding and making sense
Evelyn Gordon
13th March
The Dublin North, North East Recovery College – Our story so far: Creating an inclusive culture of mental health recovery in the community
John Kelly
20th March
Perfectionism: A double edged sword
Rosaleen McElvaney
27th March
Recovery in the context of mental health
Siobhan Russell
Martha Griffin
3rd April
Living well with the consequences of cancer
Simon Dunne
10th April
Apps, online programmes and other digital re-sources to improve mental well-being
Manuela Ascari
17th April
The role of nutrition in health and wellbeing
Mary Rose Sweeney

IIMHN Announces Workshops for 2018-2019

The IIMHN is pleased to announce its programme for practice development for 2018/2019 in association with the Office of Nursing and Midwifery Services Director.  This year we plan to offer a wide range of workshops on working with voices, paranoia, the Maastricht Interview and voice dialogue.  The workshops will be facilitated by Peter Bullimore, Elisabeth Svanholmer & Rufus May, who are leaders in these areas.

The workshops will be held nationwide with the support of the Schools of Nursing in DCU, UCD, UCC, Limerick, Castlebar and NUIG.  These workshops will encompass novice, intermediate and advanced level techniques in facilitation of the processes involved.  To book a place on one of these workshops please email or phone the designated contact person for the workshop in the list below.

Hearing Voices

This year the workshops will be delivered by Peter Bullimore in voices awareness training, hearing voices group facilitation and advanced facilitation techniques, the IIMHN will continue the voice dialogue workshops with Elisabeth Svanholmer & Rufus May.

Paranoia Workshops

To supplement the hearing voices workshops this year the IIMHN are again running a series of workshops on working with paranoia, delivered by Peter Bullimore founder of the Paranoia Network UK.

Maastricht Interview

Peter Bullimore will deliver workshops on the use of the Maastricht Interview.

Please contact the relevant coordinator for an application form.

Schedule for IIMHN workshops for 2018-2019

WorkshopFacilitatorLocationContact personemail
2-DAY HEARING VOICES FACILITATIONPETER BULLIMOREDCU: 6th & 7th Dec 2018Mary FarrellyBOOKED OUT
UCC: 9th & 10th January 2019Harry GijbelsH.Gijbels@ucc.ie
UCD: 12th & 13th FebAnn Sheridanann.sheridan@ucd.ie
NUIG: 29th & 30th January 2019Siobhan Smithsiobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie
Limerick: 26th & 27th March 2019Teresa TouhyTTUOHY@tcd.ie
Castlebar: 16th & 17th Jan 2019Sylvia CampbellSylvia.Campbell@hse.ie
ONE DAY FOLLOW UPPETER BULLIMOREDCU: 2nd April 2019Mary Farrellymary.farrelly@dcu.ie
UCD: 12th April 2019Ann Sheridanann.sheridan@ucd.ie
Northwest: 7th May 2019Sylvia CampbellSylvia.Campbell@hse.ie
Limerick: 27th May 2019Teresa TouhyTTUOHY@tcd.ie
UCC: 29th May 2019Harry GijbelsH.Gijbels@ucc.ie
NUIG: 31 May 2019Siobhan Smithsiobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie
2-DAY MAASTRICHT INTERVIEWPETER BULLIMORENUIG: 12th & 13th March 2019Siobhan Smithsiobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie
Limerick: 26th & 27th June 2019Teresa TouhyTTUOHY@tcd.ie
Castlebar: 8th & 9th May 2019Sylvia CampbellSylvia.Campbell@hse.ie
UCC: 15th & 16th May 2019Harry GijbelsH.Gijbels@ucc.ie
UCD: 21st & 22nd May 2019Ann Sheridanann.sheridan@ucd.ie
1-DAY PARANOIAPETER BULLIMORENUIG: 14th March 2019Siobhan Smithsiobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie
Limerick: 28th June 2019Teresa TouhyTTUOHY@tcd.ie
Castlebar: 10th May 2019Sylvia CampbellSylvia.Campbell@hse.ie
UCC: 17th May 2019Harry GijbelsH.Gijbels@ucc.ie
UCD: 23rd May 2019Ann Sheridanann.sheridan@ucd.ie
2-DAY VOICE DIALOGUERUFUS MAY AND ELIZABETH SVANHOMERDCU: 1st & 2nd April 2019Mary Farrellymary.farrelly@dcu.ie
UCC: 4th & 5th April 2019Harry GijbelsH.Gijbels@ucc.ie
Limerick: 25th & 26th April 2019Teresa TouhyTTUOHY@tcd.ie
NUIG: 29th & 30th April 2019Siobhan Smithsiobhan.smyth@nuigalway.ie
Castlebar: 17th & 18th June 2019Sylvia CampbellSylvia.Campbell@hse.ie

 

STARTING & SUSTAINING HEARING VOICES & PARANOIA SUPPORT GROUPS: BOOKED OUT

Sorry this workshop is now BOOKED OUT

The IIMHN is pleased to announce a TWO-DAY SKILLS’ BASED WORKSHOP (6th and 7th December 2018) with a FOLLOW-UP DAY (1st April 2019)

Venue: School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University

Funded by the Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit and the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing

Facilitator: Peter Bullimore, an internationally renowned voices and paranoia trainer

Background to the Workshop:

There are now a number of Hearing Voices Groups in Ireland (www.hearingvoicesnetworkireland.ie )

To continue the development of a network of Hearing Voices Groups, a 2-day training programme for people interested in becoming group facilitators is now again available. A follow-up 1 day workshop is also provided to provide support and guidance for those who have completed the training and are facilitating a group.  Please note that you should be able to commit to both sets of workshops.

This is a free workshop, funded by the Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit (NMPDU) and organised by the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing (www.iimhn.ie ).

Aim of the Workshop:

A 2-day workshop for mental health staff and people with lived experience who want to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to facilitate a Hearing Voices Support Group.  On completion of the workshop, participants will be expected to start a hearing voices group or co-facilitate an existing group.  A 1-day follow-up workshop in April will provide support and guidance for those who have completed the training in their endeavours to set-up and facilitate groups.

Workshop Content:

  • Hopes & fears of starting a group
  • Why start a group?
  • Therapy or therapeutic group
  • Ground rules & starting points
  • The role of the facilitator
  • Benefits of a group
  • Understanding group members & communication skills
  • Conflict management & coping with difficult members
  • Extending the group
  • Reviewing the group
  • What are the challenges & rewards?
  • Support for facilitators

This workshop is targeted primarily at mental health nurses, whose applications will be prioritised, but applications are also open to other mental health workers and people who experience voices, visions and paranoia.

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AND BEYOND ‘RECOVERY’: TEN YEARS ON – CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

14 AND 15 NOVEMBER 2018

At the first critical perspectives conference, in 2009, recovery principles and practices were debated and discussed with a considerable optimism about their potential to radically change mental health care. Now, with the conference in its 10th year, it is time to take another critical look at recovery and in particular the adoption of so-called strategies of inclusion (e.g. co-production, community engagement, and the employment of peer support workers) by mainstream institutions. The conference will consider whether such strategies have led to a recovery-focused mental health care where service users have choices, control and authority, or whether these strategies constitute an act of appropriation and co-option servicing primarily the interests of the mental health establishment.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers 

Lucy Costa is Deputy Executive Director of The Empowerment Council, an independent service user rights-based organization in Toronto Canada. She works as a community activist and advocate promoting the rights of mental health service users/survivors as well as encouraging critical analysis about service user inclusion in the mental health sector. She has written a number of articles and blogs, and is co-editor of a forthcoming book entitled, Madness, Violence and Power: A Radical Anthology Lynne Friedli is a freelance researcher, with a special interest in the relationship between mental health and social justice.  She has just completed research on the (mis) use of psychology in workfare with Hubbub at the Wellcome Collection. Lynne is also interested in the politics of strengths based discourse, the use of positive psychology in the ‘reification of ‘work’ and how these developments have come to dominate (or perhaps colonise) ideas about Recovery, as well as inspiring a resurgence of new forms of resistance to work.
Deirdre Lillis briefly experienced the force of the psychiatric response to her emotional distress in her early twenties. From there she took a path focusing on independent advocacy, facilitating service user/survivor involvement in the planning and delivering of mental health supports and services and supporting survivor led research. She is currently responsible for the Cork Advocacy Service available to people with disabilities and people using mental health services through the Social and Health Education Project (SHEP). Helen Spandler is a Reader in Mental Health in the School of Social Work, Care and Community at the University of Central Lancashire. She is the author of numerous books and articles on mental health practice, policy & politics, including ‘Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement’ (2015).  She is also Managing Editor of Asylum: the magazine for democratic psychiatry
Danny Taggart is a clinical psychologist and academic director on the clinical psychology program at the University of Essex. He is also a survivor of institutional childhood sexual abuse in the north of Ireland. Danny has published and spoken widely about his multiple perspectives on the subject of trauma and mental health in the hope of broadening debate about how mental health professionals can best respond to abuse survivors but more importantly to argue for involving survivors in policy, service and treatment development. Jijian Voronka is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor, Canada. Using interdisciplinary critical theories, her research explores the consequences of mental health service user inclusion strategies in research and service delivery systems. She is currently working on a book “Troubling Inclusion: The value of mad labour” which offers a Mad Studies account of the politics of inclusion.

Call for abstracts (oral presentations/workshops) of 45 minutes’ duration related to the conference theme and outlining its aims and intentions. Please submit (in Word- 250 words max) by 10 September 2018. Please also submit a brief bio (in Word – 150 words max). Email abstract and bio to l.sapouna@ucc.ie. Inquiries to h.gijbels@ucc.ie or l.sapouna@ucc.ie.

Registration details will be circulated in September 2018.

The Conference organisers are Harry Gijbels (retired), Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Lydia Sapouna, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland.  

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CRITICAL VOICES NETWORK IRELAND

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