This event brought together experts by experience, students and professionals to discuss ‘Community Support & Participation in Mental Health Recovery’
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This film shows a dramatised depiction of some responses to a person experiencing mental health difficulties in Uganda and the challenges that they can face. An introduction to the film is provided by Joseph Atukunda who has personal experience of mental health services in Uganda. Rosco Kasujja from Makerere University […]
The Ugandan Human Rights Commission recognized the outstanding work of two of our members by selecting them as Human Rights Community Heroes. This award is for individuals from various communities across the country who have consistently stood up for someone’s rights in one way or the other, knowingly or un-knowingly. […]
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 […]
Sharing Stories member Joanna Cheng took her fundraising efforts to new heights in July 2016 by tackling a Three Peaks challenge – climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, and Snowdon in 72 hours. After a 5 hour drive to the Highlands to camp, Joanna and her partner summited Ben Nevis, a […]
On the 12th of June, the Sharing Stories Venture hosted a stall at the ‘Beyond the Therapy Room’ conference in London. The conference was aimed at exploring the impact that Clinical Psychology can have beyond individual therapeutic work, with many speakers looking towards community engagement; listening to everyone who wants […]
We were provided with this video of a few of our members talking about their thoughts on winning the “Developing a shared culture” award back in 2015 which we really wanted to share with you. We’d specifically like to thank Mike Ilamyo in Uganda who took the footage of Eddie and […]
This roundup of our year covers the highlights of our work including reflections on the recovery listening events, our conference presentations and award presentation!
The Sharing Stories Venture were delighted to learn we were to receive an award from Health Education North West. As part of the Adult Learners’ Week Awards in Health and Social Care 2015, we received an award for ‘Learning Together in a Health and Social Care Project – Developing a […]
We were delighted to be asked to talk at the Global Health Exchange (GHE) event in Manchester, UK, on Monday 8th June. It focussed on Building Education Capacity. There were people from various Higher Education institutions and different NHS professionals attending so it felt like a real opportunity to share […]
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 […]