Author: southbayprojectresource
Hearing Voices Workshop
Saturday, March 26, 2016, 10-5 pm
Cubberley Community Center, Room H-6, 4000 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto
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Story of Michael Dote
Michael has schizophrenia and isn’t slowed down by it. Inspired by the world around him, he is a portrait photographer, running his own photo studio (www.lotus.studio) and own personal website (www.mikedote.com). He is currently being featured in a documentary he is producing entitled: “Unmasked: a bout with schizophrenia”, which is detailing his return to the sport of fencing after having the illness.
When Michael isn’t making pictures or fencing, he is usually spending time with his wife or practicing Nichiren Buddhism.
Documentary – Unmasked: A bout with Schizophrenia
Story of Debra Lampshire
Debra has heard voices since childhood and spent several decades in Mental Institutions She discovered a way of getting her voices under control and reclaimed her life, leaving mental health services behind. Her approach has now been adopted by mainstream Mental Health Services in New Zealand.
Story of Elyn R. Saks
Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in 2007. Saks is also a cancer survivor.
Story of Eleanor Longden
Eleanor Longden overcame her diagnosis of schizophrenia to earn a master’s in psychology and demonstrate that the voices in her head were “a sane reaction to insane circumstances.”
TED Blog: Everything you ever wanted to know about voice hearing (but were too afraid to ask)
Four Stories of Lives Restored
This is the first in a series of profiles about people who are functioning normally despite severe mental illness and have chosen to speak out about their struggles.
The M.O.D.E.R.N Voice Hearer: An innovative approach for people who experience distressing voices
Thursday February 4th 2016, 7-9pm
Sunnyvale Community Center, Recreation Center Building, Community Room, 550 E. Remington Dr, Sunnyvale, California
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Training for Families
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Presentation by Ed Herzog from the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network
When: Tuesday November 3 2015, 6:30-8pm
Where: PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES CLINIC, CONFERENCE ROOM 1206, 401 QUARRY ROAD, STANFORD, CA
Bio. Ed Herzog is one of the co-founders of the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network and currently the board treasurer. He lives in Berkeley and has been a documentary filmmaker for 30 years, working primarily in the labor movement. He is on the NAMI East Bay Board of Directors and facilitates a monthly support group for family members whose loved ones hear voices and special messages and experience alternative realities. The group also explores alternatives to the medical model of mental health treatment.
Description. Ed Herzog will share his personal experiences as the co-founder of the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network and as a parent who has a son hearing voices. He will focus on the practical training needed to start and facilitate a Hearing Voices Family Support Group.
This event is free to the public. RSVP to confirm your seat. Please email southbayprojectresource@gmail.com including your name and number of people attending the event.
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