We believe that places and spaces matter a great deal to our understandings of mental ill-health and can help us to build more empathetic, kinder and fairer systems of care and support. This participatory workshop gives you insight into our geo-stories guide for communities and demonstrates how you could use this resource for your own work with individuals and/or communities.
In this workshop you will have the opportunity to hear about our collaborative work with geo-stories. This includes work by geographers, a lived experience artist, and a professional
storyteller. Together we will share why creating geo-stories matter and can have a powerful impact on conveying the lived worlds of mental ill-health.
Also, in this workshop you will get the opportunity to try out the resource for yourself and to develop your own geo-stories. Through developing your own geo-stories, individually or collectively, we hope that you find new ways of sharing your experiences, create greater understanding of the worlds of mental ill-health, and have some fun!
Each participant will be given a free geo-story resource pack.
This guide was created as part of the Geopsychiatry-in-action research project at the University of Glasgow that explores the power of geo-stories in communicating lived experiences of mental ill-health. The project was funded by MQ Mental Health Grant MTGA\17 (MQ: Transforming Mental Health).
