Connected Worlds: free creative course for people with mental health difficulties starts February 1st

[Brendan Stone]

Dear colleagues 

This is to let you know about Connected Worlds - a new creative course for people living with mental health problems and/or experiencing isolation and loneliness. It's free and begins in February. It is running in conjunction with Storying Sheffield and Sheffield Flourish, and is led by my colleague Shirin Teifouri who runs the very successful Rotherham Flourish project.  Details are below.  I'd be very grateful if you'd pass this message on.

All best wishes

Brendan

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Connected Worlds is a free 11 weeks creative course in collaboration with Sheffield Flourish and Storying Sheffield (University of Sheffield). This creative course aims to connect people who have experienced different kinds of mental health difficulties, isolation, and displacement in a supportive and creative space. We use art-based activities such as storytelling, poetry, drawing, painting, and creative writing to express and transform our words and ‘worlds’. This project will also provide an opportunity for participants and students to work together during friendly joined workshops. The work produced during the course can be showcased in an exhibition and published online on Sheffield Flourish and Storying Sheffield websites.

Starting date: 1^st of February  2018

Time: 1-3pm

Venue: ISRAAC  Community  Centre, 54 Cemetery Road, Sheffield, S11 8FP

For more information and booking a place contact Shirin Teifouri S.tei...@sheffield.ac.uk

https://sheffieldflourish.co.uk/

http://www.storyingsheffield.com/

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Professor Brendan Stone
Deputy Vice-President for Education
The University of Sheffield
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Office 0114 222 8495
Mobile 0792 503 4691
@StoryingShef

Nicola Quinn
Executive Assistant to the Vice-President for Education
Email: n.q...@sheffield.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 114 2221005 

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