As many of you know a big part of my day job over the years has been international youth education, but since setting up the charity this has been much reduced. I’ve really missed the work but not the travelling and hotels.
On the 6th of March I will be flying to Poland to deliver a 10 day programme about Mental Health and leadership to 25 social workers, teachers, youth workers and NGO’s. We will base the theme around storytelling and the heroes journey. This was created by Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces). I’m very excited to go back to my creative roots and to do a project that focuses around storytelling and media.
Find out more about the Heroe’s Journey – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNPcefZKmZ0&t=57s
As part of this programme I will have a day and other sessions to run workshops talking about Mental Health Motorbike and our approach and help these professionals create a mental health toolkit/action plan that they can take back into their own countries. I cannot wait to hear the long term outputs from this!
It is an enormous responsibility and something that I am approaching with nervousness and excitement. I feel very confident people will receive the work we do positively and it will inspire them to make changes back in their own countries. We already know with the countries involved how vastly different mental health support is approached and viewed.
The countries involved will be Denmark, Lithuania, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Spain.
I feel very proud to be flying the Mental Health Motorbike flag and hopefully inspiring others to look at mental health differently internationally. Wish me luck as I work on the programme and I will try and keep you updated another blog post.