Speak to your audience 

Theatre and drama, if you have mental health challenges, can be a great way to engage with people in an entertaining way. If gives you the opportunity to share you story with many people who know very little about mental health. It offers a platform and puts you in the driving seat to talk about yourself and your issues in a non-clinical, entertain way. It also gives you licence to share and educate your audience about the mental health journey.

Start Discussion

Theatre can also spark discussion and personal reflection about mental illness, decrease stigma, build empathy for people living with mental illness and even encourage activism. It opens up such topics a stigma, causes, treatment methods, complimentary methods and how to live a day to day life with mental health issues. Find you voice and use your voice.

Theatre Is Fun
Th key to any form of story telling and sharing it in a theatrical way is fun; yea you read it right, fun! Telling your story can not only be a cathartic exercise for the story teller but ,it is fun and enjoyable at the same time. It will help with wellbeing, self belief, self confidence and the fun side relay helps release some of those feel good endorphins which make us feel better. The more fun we have the easier it becomes to tell you story.

Theatre In The Community
Stepping Stone Theatre For Mental Health take great pride in encouraging the community as much as they can and at the same time being very creatively comfortable do a small session for a library group. It is so important for the mental health community to get involved in our creative projects so together we can educate the wider community as to the issues around living with mental health challenges and when this is presented in a creative way it open the topic up to a wider audience making subject more accessible.