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Join the School of Creativity and Democracy - Transform the world through digital participation, arts, and legislative theater.

[YMHBB] Youth Mental Health Beyond Borders

#MindsetRevolution(External link) Legislative Theatre Workshop

23 Jun - 26 Jun
This space is part of the Mindset Revolution. Youth Mental Health beyond Borders superspace.

Introduction

We combine artistic and creative methods with civic technology to design youth-led participatory spaces to debate and influence youth mental health policies and practices. We want to develop new strategies and applications for digital public accountability which we can apply to various social causes, with young people in the lead.

This event builds on the Mindset Revolution project and the international alliance between young people in Manchester and Barcelona on strengthening youth voice on mental health policies and advocate for youth mental health as a societal good.

Details

What we hope to achieve

• New Understanding of Youth Mental Health: Seeing youth mental health as something that belongs to everyone and respects all young people's different experiences

• New Skills: Helping decision-makers learn fun and creative ways to work with young people for policy change

• Better Follow-Through: Finding ways to make sure young people's ideas actually happen

Activities

Legislative Theatre Workshop(Opens in new tab) (23-24, 11am-3pm)

• We build on youth mental health recommendations(External link) developed by young people in previous projects in Manchester and Barcelona

• Young people and decision-makers from Barcelona and Manchester work together using Legislative Theatre(External link) to think creatively about translating these proposals into change

• What are the barriers to enacting young people’s ideas? How can we strengthen participation all the way through implementation?

• Working towards a best-practice guide for the policymakers, community groups and young activists

Legislative Theatre Event (Opens in new tab)(25 June, 12-3pm) INVITE-ONLY

• Focused LT-process to cocreate a guide for policy makers and advocacy partners in GM, Barcelona and beyond: moving from civic participation through to implementation

Digital Workshop(Opens in new tab) (26 June, 12-3pm)

• Cocreate a fanzine bringing together learning from the LT workshop on youth participation/ activism on mental health

• Continue to develop the Decidim online platform to help push forward the agreements and outcomes of the legislative theatre process

Conference Venues

  • Grosvener East (Movement Studio) Arts and Humanities Building, Cavendish St, Manchester M15 6BG
    Manchester, Lancashire, England
    Arts and Humanities Building
  • 12:00 PM - 15:00 PM CEST

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