Full Maastricht Training for Voice Hearing

Dates: 9/1/26, 9/2/26, 9/3/26

Location: Virtual Through Zoom

Time: 9 AM - 5 PM EST

Max 20 students
Attendance required for all sessions

The Maastricht Approach is a social and bio-graphical approach to hearing voices that was developed by Sandra Esher and Marius Romme in partnership with Voice Hearers in the United Kingdom. The approach “… was based on the premise that hearing voices is a normal human experience that has a personal meaning in relation with life history, which they seek to understand”.

This training is for providers, voice hearers, and supporters to gain insight into the experience of voice hearing and learn strategies for navigating the experience.

The Goal of Recovery: Maastricht involves accepting and making sense of the experience as a means of providing both relief and the possibility of recovery.

• Learn skills to cope and negotiate with voices, to build a more positive relationship with the voices.
• Voice hearers can learn to have pride in their experience and to give their voices personal and positive meaning.
• Create a life of which the voices become a part.
• Learn to no longer be dominated by ones voices, and make their own choices.​

RSS and CCB Credits approved/NASW-CT application pending
21 CECs

Cost: $250 

Full Training Schedule

Session 1 | How to use the Maastrict Interview & Develop a Report of the Experience.
Session 2 | How to formulate a construct of the interview, identify who the voices are and what they represent in the person's life.
Session 3 | How to use the information gathered in the construct.

MAP relies entirely on the generosity of the community.  Please reserve your seat by making a payment of $250, which is about $10/credit hour.  Your seat will not be reserved until payment is received. Registration Fees are Non-Refundable unless otherwise stated.

Presenter Bio:    PeterBullimore 

The chair of the National Paranoia Network, Pete Bullimore, is testament

to how effective accepting and working with voices and paranoia can be.

Pete heard his first voice when he was aged seven.

"I heard a child's voice telling me to keep going, that everything would be OK. It was reassuring, a bit like an imaginary friend," he says.

But as bad things happened in my life the voices increased in number, eventually turning sinister and aggressive.

"They told me to set myself on fire, to slash myself and destroy myself, often 20 or 30 voices all shouting at me at once," he says.

By his mid-twenties Pete had lost his business, his family, his home, everything.

"The voices just encompassed my life; I curled up in a chair and didn't wash or eat.

"I was locked in a world of voices, paranoia and depression, and it was probably the most frightening time of my life," he says.

Pete spent more than a decade after that on heavy medication, but the voices never went away. He had to get out of the psychiatric system to recover.

It was only when he came off the medication and met people who shared his experiences at the hearing voices network that he was able to stop being so afraid of the voices and actually start listening to them. He changed his relationship with his voices and worked through the meaning of his voices and paranoia.  

He now runs his own training and consultancies agencies, the National Paranoia Network, Asylum Associates & the Sheffield Hearing Voices Network delivering training on hearing voices, childhood trauma, paranoia and how to use the Maastricht interview for hearing voices & problematic thoughts, beliefs and paranoia internationally. He is a guest lecturer at 21 Universities in the UK and Ireland. He has set up Maastricht Centre’s at the Radbone unit in Derby and the Hartington unit in Chesterfield in collaboration with Derby NHS trust; he has now launched a Maastricht Approach center in Bradford and a National Maastricht Center in Telford

"I wouldn't want to get rid of my voices now, they're part of me," he says.