Name: OUR Generation - Circle Exchange Event - North Belfast
Start: 2021-09-24T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-09-24T13:30:00+01:00
Location: Girdwood Community Hub

OUR Generation - Circle Exchange Event - North Belfast

Co-operation Ireland

Co-operation Ireland are inviting you to join our conversation circle to share learning, experiences & thoughts on mental health & wellbeing

Girdwood Community Hub

As part of the OUR Generation Project, Co-operation Ireland are hosting a series of Circle Exchange Events aimed at groups who work with children &amp; young people within the 5 Urban Village Areas and the Border Corridor in Northern Ireland. This Circle Exchange is specifically for individuals and organisations from the North Belfast Urban Village Area and will take place in Gridwood Community Hub. The session will focus on the importance of promoting positive mental health &amp; wellbeing within communities, bringing people together for open and honest conversation in a safe space. We invite you to join the conversation, face to face, to share learning and experience, make connections as well as exchange information about the OUR Generation Project and the opportunities available. We ask you to bring along one personal item/object that has significance to you in relation to promoting positive mental health, to place in the centre of the circle to provide purpose and intention. We look forward to connecting with you, listening to your stories and sharing thoughts and ideas as we gather in a circle. The event is based on the ethos of the Circle Way Process - people gathering together in a circular shape with participants at the rim and the purpose in the centre. Each person has a voice and everyone can see and hear one another. &quot;When we gather in circle, we invite the best in all of us&quot; (Heatherplett.com)To book your place please sign-up through Eventbrite and we will be in touch with more information. Lunch will be provided.

The OUR Generation project is a Peace IV funded project that provides a unique opportunity for communities, north and south of the Border, to work together to halt the intergenerational impact of trauma and to build emotional resilience and peace for generations to come.This three-year project will run until December 2022 and engage with 36,000 children, young people and their key contacts. The project will be delivered in education, youth and community settings aimed at the five Urban Village Areas and border corridor of Northern Ireland and the five Border Counties of Donegal, Sligo/Leitrim and Cavan/Monaghan in Republic of Ireland.The cross border partnership of seven regional organisations will be led by Action Mental Health in partnership with Donegal Youth Service, Co-operation Ireland, Youth Action NI, Youth Work Ireland, PlayBoard NI and Ulster University. Funding for the OUR Generation project has been awarded through the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB), match-funding for the project has been provided by The Executive Office in Northern Ireland and the Department of Rural and Community Development in Ireland.OUR Generation will collaborate with existing community–based initiatives to offer accessible, age appropriate prevention, early intervention and recovery activities delivered on a cross-border and cross-community basis to support the mental and emotional well-being of children and young people. Children and young people will engage in programme design and delivery, including provision of peer support, developing skills and confidence to improve well-being within their communities and act as agents of change, building peace for future generations.As a partner, Co-operation Ireland will undertake outreach, engagement and relationship building activities with those communities and groups most affected by the legacy of the conflict, i.e victims &amp; survivors, ethnic minorities, ex-prisoners/former combatants, youth at risk, displaced persons and former members of the security services, especially for those whose experiences can be passed onto subsequent generations for the purpose of shared learning, building resilience and promoting positive relations.Our work will focus on connecting groups on a cross community and cross border basis based upon common needs and shared interests with the development of activities and training to address issues, specifically around the promotion of emotional resilience, empathy and understanding underpinned by building peace &amp; reconciliation in post conflict Ireland.

The Event will take place at Gridwood Community Hub and all Government guidance will be followed in relation to Covid . Look forward to seeing you then!Any Questions or Queries please drop us a line:Claire Heaney-McKee - claire@cooperationireland.org or mobile 07513870237Colm Fanning - cfanning@cooperationireland.org or mobile 07852115118Design &amp; Development Officers, OUR Generation Project, Co-operation Ireland, Unit 5 Weavers Court, Linfield Road, Belfast, BT12 5GH

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