Speakers

Caroline Mazel-Carlton is a neurodivergent person and a survivor of institutional trauma in both the psychiatric and criminal legal systems. She now works to promote harm reduction, hope and human rights as the Director of Learning Opportunities for the Wildflower Alliance and as a board member of the Hearing Voices Network USA. Since moving out of a staffed psychiatric residential facility in 2009, Caroline has provided support, advocacy and education in diverse settings from grassroots community spaces to forensic psychiatric hospitals to maximum security prisons.

Caroline’s passion is centering and exploring the experiences that are often the most silenced, such as suicide, insitutional trauma and non-consensus reality states. Her work with “Alternatives to Suicide” and the Hearing Voices Network has been featured in books like Daniel Bergner's "The Mind and the Moon" and popular media outlets such as the New York Times, Foreign Policy and O magazine.

Caroline has contributed to multiple academic publications on the topic of suicide and one book on her experience skating on a roller derby team as #18 “Mazel Tov Cocktail”. Caroline's own journey also involves the study and practice of Jewish mysticism and folk practices. She works regularly with psychiatric survivors who are reclaiming spiritual tools and frameworks to find healing, community and liberation.

Will Hall, MA, DiplPW, PhD Candidate Maastricht University, is a therapist and community development worker changing the social response to madness. A schizophrenia diagnosis survivor and longtime organizer with the psychiatric survivor movement, he is host of Madness Radio, co-founder of Freedom Center, co-founder of Portland Hearing Voices, co-founder of Hearing Voices Network USA, and past co-coordinator of The Icarus Project.

Will has appeared in several documentary films including Crazywise, Healing Voices, and Coming off Psych Drugs; A Meeting of Minds. Will has a certificate in Open Dialogue and a diploma in Jungian psychology, and his disability advocacy received the Judi Chamberlin Advocacy Award, the Portland Open Minds award, and the Stavros Center for Independent Living Disability Rights Award.

He is the author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs and Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness (finalist for the finalist for the Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize for Nonfiction 2022), as well peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Research Ethics, and chapters in Modern Community Mental Health An Interdisciplinary Approach by Oxford University and The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality. He recently co-created Mad Camp, a summer camp for survivors. www.willhall.net www.madnessradio.net www.outsidementalhealth.com

Trevor Eyles is an Independent Voice-Hearing Consultant, originally from the UK but based in Aarhus, Denmark for the past thirty years. Trained and qualified as a psychiatric nurse in England and as a psychotherapist in Denmark, Trevor has been employed in social psychiatric services for twenty years, concentrating on initiating and developing support for voice-hearers since 2003, as well as educating health-care professionals.



Trevor’s specialised areas of interest include working individually with voice-hearers, setting up and facilitating voice-hearing groups, training professionals to understand and work with the Maastricht Approach to hearing voices, working with the Maastricht Interview and Voice-Dialogue individually and in workshops.