Will Hall MA, DiplPW, PhD Candidate Maastricht University, is a Process Work diplomate therapist and trainer internationally recognized for his innovative work with psychosis treatment, psychiatric medications, and changing the social response to madness. He is host of Madness Radio, co-founder of Freedom Center, co-founder of Portland Hearing Voices, co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network USA, and a past co-coordinator of The Icarus Project. Will was trained in Open Dialogue at the Institute for Dialogic Practice and studied Arnold Mindell’s Process Oriented Psychology, a Jungian approach, at the Process Work Institute in Portland Oregon.

A schizophrenia diagnosis survivor, Will is a longtime organizer with the international psychiatric survivor movement, and has appeared in several documentary films including Crazywise, Healing Voices, and Coming off Psych Drugs; A Meeting of Minds. He has gained media coverage in the New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Radio New Zealand, Haaretz, Radio Sarajevo, and The Guardian. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Best Practices in Mental Health, Oxford University’s Textbook of Modern Community Mental Health Work: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and Research Ethics journal, and his book is Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness.

Will’s work has received recognition in disability rights activism including the Judi Chamberlin Advocacy Award and the Stavros Center for Independent Living Disability Rights Award. Will is author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Medications, which has been translated into 14 languages and is widely used as a resource by patients, families, clinicians, and recovery groups around the world.

Will’s interest in psychedelics and Process Work emerged out of his own struggle to understand himself: impulses of creativity and renewal at the heart of the dangerous extreme states of consciousness that threatened to destroy him as a young man. Will trained with leading psychedelic teachers in the 1990s but helped break media silence around psychedelic therapy abuse when he wrote about his personal experiences on Mad In America and Medium, catalyzing widespread media attention. Will’s therapy practice includes work with people who have taken psychedelics, and he supports access to these substances and ending the war on drugs. At the same time, Will questions “psychedelic therapy” and opposes the medicalization and commercialization of psychedelics. Can we accept the positive potentials of altered states of consciousness while also guarding against the dangers of a Brave New World?