The Waterford and South East Branch of Samaritans are currently running workshops across the region.
In total, there are 72 sessions in 52 schools in the South East all with the aim of helping students with mental health and life problems.
The workshops are being carried out by Dublin Theatre company called 'Smashing Times' whereby they act out monologs dealing with mental health and suicide.
Rory Fitzgerald, Co-Ordinator of the Outreach project with Samaritans explains the idea behind it
"Well they provide the actor, they provide the whole package I suppose effectively and they've done this (people quiz why we don't use a Waterford based company but) they have done this mental health area and diversity and all these kind of issues over a long number of years so they are very skilled and the script is professionally written so it's just a formula that works. We've done 77 in the South East Waterford and Wexford area in the last 5 years and I know from the feedback we get from the students, it's very positive and there's a lot of learnings."
We've done 77 in the South East Waterford and Wexford area in the last 5 years and I know from the feedback we get from the students, it's very positive and there's a lot of learnings."
Rory Fitzgerald, Co-Ordinator of the Outreach project with Samaritans explains how the workshops will work.
"The workshops are done through drama.
A Dublin theatre company called Smashing Times who've done this for 10 years professionally written script. It's run on a monologue where a young actor does a piece for about 25 minutes about a day in his life and his best friend who sadly ends his life by suicide. It's about how he reacts to all the stuff that goes on. It really gets the students, which are from 15 up, engaged because it has humour but it has difficult matter to deal with
It's run on a monolog where a young actor does a piece for about 25 minutes about a day in his life and his best friend who sadly ends his life by suicide. It's about how he reacts to all the stuff that goes on. It really gets the students, which are from 15 up, engaged because it has humor but it has difficult matter to deal with
It's about how he reacts to all the stuff that goes on. It really gets the students, which are from 15 up, engaged because it has humor but it has difficult matter to deal with
It really gets the students, which are from 15 up, engaged because it has humor but it has difficult matter to deal with."
