In 2016 we joined with the charity Odd Arts to help develop a piece of theatre about stigma and mental health. This happened in Manchester and involved some of our Ugandan and UK members. In 2018 we worked again with Odd Arts to produce a theatre piece in Uganda with […]
Corona Virus infection spreads like a wild fire, from its epicentre in Wuhan city from China to most parts of the world. In Uganda 36,407 confirmed cases have been officially registered by 6th of January 2021. 290 so far have succumbed to the scourge and over 1.89 million all over […]
Hello, I’m Rachel, one of the Clinical Psychology trainees at Lancaster University, and I’ve recently started to get involved with Sharing Stories. At the first Skype meeting I attended, in October, we talked about how we can stay connected as a group during this time, and came up with an […]
Our members have been busy and over the last few months have seen two papers published in academic journals. Eddie Nkurunungi was one of the authors of a protocol paper entitled ‘Peer support for frequent users of inpatient mental health care in Uganda: protocol of a quasi-experimental study‘. This paper […]
What happens when you spend 3 days with a diverse group of people who have experience of the impact of mental health in Uganda and then ask them to stage a production in the national theatre with just a few hours of practice? Watch the short film below to find […]
Our work often includes clinical psychologists from both Uganda and the UK. However, their involvement is as much about them learning as it is for everyone else involved. In the film below Will and Jo talk about what they have gained from being members of Sharing Stories as qualified clinical […]
We were recently providing an introduction to our work to encourage Lancaster University trainee clinical psychologists to get involved in our collaborative work on mental health in Uganda and the UK. This great video of Eddie and Kim gives an introduction to the value of having trainees involved!
The project works with mental health practitioners & service users, psychologists & theatre practitioners in the UK & Uganda to reduce mental health stigma & increase well-being through theatre & story-telling. Sharing Stories members joined us from Jinja and Gulu to allow the learning to be spread to many groups […]
Back in 2016, Sharing Stories joined forces with Odd Arts to pilot a Forum Theatre project in Manchester and Liverpool. These events brought together people with lived experience of using mental health services to produce a powerful performance piece helping to challenge stigma around mental health. After the success of […]
After a long evening of planning and debriefing (with a slight break for Becky’s critical appraisal of the implicit association task…not quite sure how we got onto that one), we were up early again on Wednesday for the final day of our Forum Theatre workshop. Our priority for Wednesday was […]
Today was always going to be a tough day, as we had lots to get through to start to pull together the content for the performance tomorrow. Obviously there is always time for a warm up game or two to get us moving and thinking; today involved use of mime […]
Today saw the start of our Forum Theatre workshops in Kampala; a joint venture between Sharing Stories and Odd Arts, supported by MAITS. For the uninitiated, Forum Theatre is a set of techniques designed to produce a drama performance; the characters, the script and the themes of the performance are […]