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 […]
Events
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Our forum theatre event brought together 30 service users and professionals to learn about Forum Theatre and how drama can be used to create change in communities. Ideas for a drama were generated and a live performance developed over the course of a single day. This was followed by a […]
Sharing Stories took their forum theatre performance on stigma and mental health to the Clinical Psychology Fringe Festival in Liverpool. This gave our performers an opportunity to interact with a whole new audience and allow the audience to generate new ideas about how to deal with everyday situations which people […]
The Sharing Stories Venture was honoured to be invited to undertake a series of listening events in Uganda during February 2015 to explore the understanding of recovery in a Ugandan context. The subsequent events not only provided an insight into the views of both service providers and users on the […]