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This blog is an open space to document, share, and reflect during our time together at the Legislative Theatre workshop.

Here we collect impressions, questions, magical or messy moments, things we’ve learned, loose ideas, mind maps—whatever emerges along the way. It doesn’t have to be perfect or formal — it could be a photo, a quote you overheard, a moment that clicked, or a doubt that’s still lingering.

It’s a living collective journal, built by all of us taking part in this experience: facilitators, young people, allies, the simply curious. If you joined a session, helped set up the space, or just passed by and something stayed with you — this is your space too.

🌱 How to contribute?
Just bring your willingness to share. You can post a short entry, upload an image, a quick audio message, or leave a question for the group. Everything is welcome if it helps us make sense of and nurture this process together.

This blog is as much yours as it is mine.
Thanks for leaving your trace along the way!

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🎴 Tarot of Legislative Theater: Reading the System to Rewrite the Future

We didn’t come to ask for permission.We came to shuffle the system.Because talking about participation means nothing if we’re still speaking the language of institutions.Because mental health doesn’t fit in a protocol.Because some young people know the experience of waiting, collapse, and “come back later” better than any policy brief.And because every card left unplayed is a story lost.This is where the Tarot of Legislative Theater begins:not to predict the future,but to read the blocks,activat…

📓 From Grimoire to Street: Materialising Youth Policy through Podcast, Platform and Protest

If the tarot is a map of archetypes,the grimoire is the book that teaches you how to use them.One reads the moment.The other prepares you for what comes next.In the second chapter of Youth Mental Health Beyond Borders, our digital grimoire. aka digital fanzine, took shape not as a summary, but as an extension of the legislative theater crash course. A space to hold the echoes, fragments, spells, refusals and provocations that emerged during and after the Legislative Theater process. It picked u…

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Mindset Revolution in Manchester's Legislative Theatre

Manchester, UK – Wednesday, 25 June 2025 – Today was more than just an event; it was a vibrant, living experiment in democracy, participation, and the power of collective action. The energy at the Legislative Theatre in Manchester was palpable as young people, community activists, authorities, and academics came together for the Mindset Revolution.The day began on a high note, with a warm welcome for our passionate young participants who travelled from Barcelona to be part of this transformative…

Salud Mental como Bien Común: Taller de Tarot

La participación pública ya sea digital o presencial suele centrarse en un perfil muy limitado: adultos, generalmente blancos, mayores y de clase media. Esto restringe las voces que se escuchan y las experiencias que influyen en las políticas, especialmente en temas de salud mental juvenil.Para desafiar esta dinámica, lanzamos un taller único llamado “Salud Mental como Bien Común: Taller de Tarot”, que combina expresión artística con tecnología cívica para abrir nuevos espacios donde los jóvene…

✂️📊 Come cut, collage, conspire, co-INSPIRE.

🎭💥 Ever wondered what would happen if tarot cards unionised, data sets caught feelings, and bureaucracy got roasted by poetry?This is not your average mental health workshop.It's part zine lab, part ritual, part undercover policy intervention (shhh 🤫).🌍🎭 At the upcoming Youth Mental Health Beyond Borders (YMHBB) event, the Platoniq team is bringing scissors, metaphors, and just a little bit of tarot mischief. Why? Because mental health isn’t just a diagnosis, it’s a battlefield of housing, borde…