Rufus May has worked as a clinical psychologist in adult mental health services for 19 years. He provides training and consultancy in recovery and integrative based approach to psychosis and other mental health problems.
Rufus has an international reputation for training people in holistic and recovery based approaches to mental health problems, having carried out work in the United States, Australia, Canada, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Holland. His interest in psychological approaches to psychosis and recovery is rooted in his own experiences of psychosis and recovery in his late teens.
Rufus has written a number of articles and book chapters and his work was featured in the English Channel 4 documentary ‘The Doctor who hears voices’. He also has an interest in mindfulness, voice dialogue approaches, conflict resolution communication skills and community development approaches including developing self-help networks.
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Elisabeth Svanholmer has worked since 2006 as a Danish Hearing Voices Network trainer and facilitator. Her own experiences of living with voices and other unusual experiences has served as an inspiration for her current work-life.
Elisabeth is passionate about facilitating creative, supportive spaces for people to talk about their experiences and learn from each other. From 2012 to 2018 she was one of the organisers of a bi-monthly Danish open meeting for hearing voices groups in Western Denmark. She organises and co-facilitates a monthly group supervision session for people working with compassionate approaches to voices and similar experiences.
She has facilitated training on the hearing voices approach, mindfulness and understanding the highly sensitive person in Denmark, UK, Canada, US and Australia. She has co-facilitated a mindfulness group, a hearing voices group as well as a monthly arts and wellbeing sessions in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
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