This innovative and interactive three-day course will help to develop the skills necessary to co-facilitate a peer support group for young refugees and asylum seekers who hear voices, see visions or have other 'unusual' sensory experiences.
Course commences March 21st and continues on March 28th and 29th, 2017. 10am to 4pm each day.
It will combine personal and professional experience to cover the following areas:
- Understanding ‘hearing voices’ and other sensory experiences
- Making sense of different models of understanding these experiences
- Setting up, launching and sustaining a peer support group
- Practical skills for group facilitation
- Developing a toolbox of coping strategies to support young refugees in their recovery
Who is the course for?
- People who currently work with young refugees & asylum seekers: Including psychologists, support workers, nurses, therapists, OTs, social workers, youth workers, mentors etc.
- Young refugees & asylum seekers (aged 16+): Joint applications between workers & young people are particularly encouraged.
- People with lived experience of voices, visions or other sensory experiences
Free of charge, thanks to funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
To find out more and register, click here.
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Location
Amnesty International
25 New Inn Yard
EC2A 3EA
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