About Us
In 2008 as a result of increasing interest in our work we decided to integrate a city wide group and we are beginning to provide a wider range of services to people who hear voices. In 2009 we incorporated as a non profit organization. The founder and director of the Hearing Voices Network of Denver is Molly Martyn.

The Hearing Voices Network of Denver promotes a network of support for people who hear voices and aims to create acceptance that hearing voices is a valid experience for which there can be many explanations. The network facilitates groups which will meet within the Denver Metro Area and focuses on a behavioral approach to the management of voice hearing. By doing this, we aim to enable voice hearers to recognize their place in society through the support and coping skills provided by peers and mental health professionals.

Background
We have found there are many people who hear voices, yet are not troubled by them or have found their own ways of coping with them. However, there are also significant numbers of voice hearers who are overwhelmed by the negative and disempowering aspects of the experience. Many are diagnosed as having a serious mental health problem such as, Schizophrenia.

The experience of hearing voices prevents some people from living a fulfilled life in society and can lead to having a very poor quality of life. We seek to enable voice hearers troubled by their experience to change their relationship and attitude with their voices and to take up their lives again.

Our network focuses on solutions that improve the life of voice hearers in the knowledge that these methods have been co-developed by voice hearers and professionals.

The most important factor in the success of our approach is the importance placed on the personal engagement of the people involved. This means that everybody is considered an expert of their own experiences. We see each other first as people, secondly as equal partners and thirdly as all having different but mutually valuable expertise to offer. This can either be through direct experience of hearing voices or having worked with voice hearers and/or wanting to.

Diversity
The Hearing Voices Network of Denver provides a supportive context in which understanding and respect for diversity and non-discrimination are fundamentally addressed, practiced, and valued in our support groups and program structure.

The Hearing Voices Network of Denver practices equal opportunity and does not discriminate in the provision of services or in employment on the grounds of race, religion, culture, health, spirituality, socioeconomic status, skin color, age, gender, class, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical ability, nationality, or veteran status.

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