Visual storytelling is a powerful tool for communicating complex issues and increasing engagement. The Centre for Global Mental Health are hosting an event to draw the focus on the use of visual story telling in tackling a range of mental health topics from human rights abuses to mental wellbeing.

The event will commence with a documentary screening of “Breaking the Chains”, an award winning ethnographic documentary that focuses on understanding the context and meanings of human rights abuses against people who are severely mentally ill in Indonesia and measures that can be taken to eradicate such abuses. The second half of the event will involve a short presentation on the role of visual storytelling in research and policy change.

The documentary screening and panel discussion will be followed by a drinks reception and a photo exhibition. The exhibition is based on a previous photography competition launched by the Centre for Global Mental Health on World Mental Health Day 2017, themed, ‘what does wellbeing mean to you?’. All photo entries will be exhibited and there will be opportunities to speak to some of the photo entrants.