Creative mental health education service provider, working across a wide range of settings in the UK.
Joined September 2018
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Is your organisation or institution looking for unique, specially designed mental health workshops? Open Words are offering online sessions. Visit openwords.co.uk or email [email protected] to start your Open Words journey 🤩
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This mask was made in response to Brazilian folktale 'Boi Tata' for @Not1More. Written alongside to not culturally appropriate the myth + truly understand its roots, history + cultural symbolism. 🐍 #dramatherapy #counselling #britainbehindthemask #storytelling #maskmaking
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🥂 Kyra + Marissa meeting for the first time in-person on Sunday 6 June 2021. BBTM was built online during a global crisis. 1 year on we can’t wait to continue our work supporting silenced and marginalised communities 🥂@uk_neuro #dramatherapy #artstherapies
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BBTM want to work with an experienced storyteller/performer/spoken word artist/ actor of Brazilian heritage to record a story in English. £50, virtual work, applications from🌎encouraged. TO APPLY, MESSAGE US 😁
#brazil #storyteller #performer #spokenword #actor #creativearts
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"We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes" Paul Laurence Dunbar. Amplifying the stories behind the masks of marginalised communities can change perceptions and ultimately aid the fight for equality. 🗣️ Read full poem in thread.
#equality
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Who's behind the mask?
Marissa Green HCPC @OpenWordsuk
Co-Founder & Operations Director
Giving space to silenced voices
#bbtm #therapy #counselling #dramatherapy #artstherapy
Follow @BritainMask to find out more about Britain Behind the Mask, a collaboration between Open Words and @uk_neuro using mask-making, story-telling and visual arts to give voice to silenced communities. #dramatherapy #arts
Excited to collab w/ @neurotribe as Britain Behind the Mask to provide experiential workshops for @DramaTherapySW AGM! All profits will be used to provide free creative workshops for marginalised and silenced communities to tell their stories and to be HEARD! 🎭🥳#dramatherapy
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"You are a Sesame dramatherapist - you have stories, myths, movement, and Jung running through your blood and every experience you have had and ever will have, every client you work with as a dramatherapist, is in your soul." #dramatherapy #disability
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Open Words loved attending the @badthopen conference over the weekend. Sharing skills and experience is how we grow as practitioners to best provide for our clients and participants. #BADTH2020 #dramatherapy
We can’t wait to attend this workshop and see how other organisations combine dramatherapy and psychoeducation too! #BADTH2020
Reflections on a collaborative project combining dramatherapy, psychoeducation and adolescent neuroscience.
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#dramatherapy #dramatherapist #drama #therapy #badth #therapist #dramatherapyconference #badth2020
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Exciting chat with Kyra at @neurotribe about where we go next after our pilot of Britain Behind the Mask! Lots of lessons learned and lots of exciting plans ahead! Watch this space 🤓 🎭 #dramatherapy #mentalhealth
Thanks @tq_uk for @marissachgreen ‘s training! Upskilling and training to provide the best service possible #mentalhealth
Thank you @tq_uk for my funded Level 2 Cert in Awareness of Mental Health Problems. Can’t wait to put it it to good use! #mentalhealth
Thanks to our amazing attendees of Therapists & Counsellors Behind the Mask. We LOVED exploring the impacts of 2020 through mask-making, storytelling and visual arts. Email [email protected] to join any future events🎭
#Therapy #counselling
@PaulCree @neurotribe
Thanks so much for coming @PaulCree - until next time 😏!
I had a great workshop last night with the young people from Progress Project @GreenShoesArts1
And then this-morning with @OpenWordsuk
Bit zoomed-out but they both left me feeling very positive
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Tomrrow, I’ll be taking part in the Britain’s Behind The Mask workshop with @OpenWordsuk
It’ll be focusing on voicing a character from the Demeter and Persephone
There’s a still a few spaces I believe if you wish to get involved
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As part the work I’ve been doing with @OpenWordsuk @uk_neuro and their #BritainBehindTheMask Project, I had a pop at telling my own version of the Greek myth, Demeter and Persephone
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Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay and we started it off right with our first workshop of this Behind the Mask series. Thank you to our wonderful participants. TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE for the next three workshops:
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@uk_neuro @PaulCree
#MentalHealth #story
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Kyra of @uk_neuro reflects of why she thinks mask-making and stories can give people space to reflect 💕
@PaulCree @openwordsuk
Tickets still remaining. More information and tickets at openwords.co.uk
#WorldMentalHealthDay #worldmentalhealthday2020 #storytelling #Mask
Want to know if you need to come to all 4 sessions of Britain Behind the Mask, or if you can just attend one? Want to know if it's therapy or not? Want to know what you'll gain? Watch this FAQ! @PaulCree @neurotribe
More info at openwords.co.uk
#WorldMentalHealthDay
ARE YOU A #THERAPIST OR #COUNSELLOR LOOKING TO GAIN NEW SKILLS IN ADVANCED STORYTELLING AND MASK MAKING? IT’S AS EASY AS THIS.
@PaulCree @neurotribe @marissachgreen
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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