From Childhood to Adulthood

10 – 11 October 2025

Meet your community in the heart of Europe

Congress en Wellness Hotel Olsanka
Praque, Czech Republic
10/11 October 2025

Speakers

Dr. Seetha Subbiah

With over 30 years of experience helping children and families facing various struggles, including voice hearing, Dr. Seetha Subbiah, runs a training centre in Singapore, teaching 17- to 80-year-olds, from all walks of life, including those with no prior knowledge of mental health practice to doctoral degree holders of Clinical Psychology, on how to engage and assist children (and their families), lead healthy lives and reach their full potential.  She has and continues to provide similar services in various countries in Asia, e.g. Sri Lanka, Maldives, Malaysia, and Japan.  Based on her 16 years of training in western mental health care and professional experience working with child voice hearers in the United States of America, she authored a book on voice hearing – Did You Hear That?  Help for Children Who Hear Voices – which is available in English and other languages.

Jindřich Jašík

In 2009, his natural disposition was diagnosed as a severe mental disorder called paranoid schizophrenia. After his release from hospitalization, however, he refused to be a compliant patient. He believed he could find a way to heal his ailing nature and subsequently write a book about it. That book was published ten years later under the title “The Way Out of Schizophrenia”. For over fifteen years, he has not seen a psychiatrist or taken any psychotropic drugs. Instead, he has a wife and three children. Under the guidance of Marek Hopfenbeck, he completed training in Open Dialogue. Today, he is a facilitator and lecturer of Open Dialogue at the Narativ association. He has organized and lectured at destigmatization events for NUDZ. He is currently involved in a project of the Czech Ministry of Health aimed at increasing the involvement of people with psychiatric experience in the mental health care system. He visits students as part of the ” Blázníš? No, a!” project, is a member of the South Moravian Region working group, deals with human rights aspects related to psychiatry, and has worked as a peer consultant at the Celsuz center for a long time.

The online registration to the International Hearing Voices Congress 2025 will open on January 2025.

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