1. DSH Positive Choices Siauliai Conference 15 March 2017

2. Deliberate Self Harm - DSH
Research on DSH prior to project:
Self-directed violence is the third leading cause of death in children after road traffic injuries and drowning.
Reduction of child injury a key priority for WHO and Europe
Self Harm & Stigma a big issue
Social exclusion isolation depression suicide

3. Deliberate Self Harm - DSH
Non Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) – DSH
Research confirmed link
Alexithymia to NSSI / DSH
Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) study 2008
Pathways from Alexithymia to suicide
59% of young self harmers expressed a desire to die

4. Deliberate Self Harm - DSH
Alexithymia (see next presentation)
An inability to express emotions and feelings
Lack of training and awareness for teachers and youth workers
Can be cause of early school leaving
All priority targets for Europe 2020

5. DSH Positive Choices Project
Objectives
Deliver 72 workshops (12 per partner)
Each workshop to 10+ young people
Actual
1000+ teachers and youth workers benefitted from the project in Europe
Young people benefitting...?
Facts and figures – too many to speak about here

6. DSH Positive Choices Partners

7. DSH Positive Choices Project
Developing the programme
6 meetings – country to country
2 workshops at each meeting
Partners return home
Translate and adapt the workshops
Deliver the workshops locally

8. DSH PC – The Workshops 1st Meeting 6-10 July 2015 Plymouth UK
Plymouth Recovery College Team
Workshops:
Self Care & Compassion
Self Exploration for Young People
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9. DSH PC – The Workshops
2nd Meeting October 2015 Siauliai Lithuania
ZISPB
Workshops
Theatre of the Oppressed – everyone has the capacity to act in the “theatre” of their own lives – everyone is a “spect-actor”
Icebreakers and “Social Experiments”

10. DSH PC - Workshops Lt

11. DSH PC - Workshops Lt

12. DSH PC - Workshops Lt

13. DSH PC - Workshops Athens
3rd Meeting January 2016
SSP&MH – Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health (Athens, Greece)
Workshops
The crisis of adolescence
Understanding emotions
Visit to the Museum of Emotions exhibition: “Hello Mr Fear”

14. DSH PC - Workshops Athens

15. DSH PC - Workshops Athens

16. DSH PC - Workshops Turkey
4th Meeting April 2016 Aksaray
Behder Workshops:
Team building and communication
Open Space Technology
Open Space Technology has 4 main principles:
Whoever comes are the right people
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened
Whenever it starts is the right time
When it is over, it is over
(...and not forgetting “the law of two feet”)

17. DSH PC - Workshops Turkey

18. DSH PC - Workshops Turkey

19. DSH PC - Workshops Turkey

20. DSH PC - Workshops Romania
5th Meeting 27 June -1 July 2016
Bucovina Institute Suceava
Workshops
Pantomime, theatre and gesture
Practical activities for social and emotional development

21. DSH PC - Workshops Romania

22. DSH PC - Workshops Romania

23. DSH PC - Workshops Romania

24. DSH PC - Workshops Romania
Live Television Show – streamed live on the internet

25. DSH PC - Workshops Greece
6th Meeting October 2016
University of Thessaloniki – Amfissa
Workshops
A selection of ice breakers
Art Therapy
Dance Movement & Exercises

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27. DSH PC - Workshops Greece

28. DSH PC - Workshops Greece

29. DSH PC - Workshops Greece

30. DSH PC – Lessons Learned
The notion of empathy & compassion
To give more time to all people to bring out their emotions
Communication is very important
Learned ways to improve methods of delivery and to motivate others
Sharing of information through individual workshops
The workshops were in “bite size” chunks
Learned the elements of effective listening (Aksaray 4th visit)

31. DSH PC Currently 100 Youth Workers in Greece participated in workshops
In Romania, 3 seminars held with 80 participants in each
In UK 15 month programme for parental education
In Lithuania – great interest expressed by managers or other institutions to participate in future workshops

32. DSH PC Currently (cont’d)
Turkey – dissemination is active and ongoing to parents and teachers
Across the partnership – an alteration in the relationship between pupils and their teachers – more trusting and open – breaking down of conventional barriers
DSH Positive Choices, has, is and continues to make a difference in raising awareness of the issues facing young people, when it comes to their emotional and mental well being

33. DSH PC - Young People
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34. DSH Positive Choices The Journey Continues...
Workshops continue to be delivered in all partner countries
Web site
Facebook Page
Thank you
Graham Nicholls
Project Coordinator: