In Our Own Words – performance and workshop dates

​Join theatre company Wake the Beast and Clinical Psychologist Dr Sue Gibbons for a theatre performance, post-show discussion and creative presentation around NHS staff mental health.

In Our Own Words is an innovative NHS & Social Care staff support project. It uses creative activities and the co-creation of verbatim theatre to propel unheard voices into the national conversation on NHS staff mental health. In Our Own Words supports staff wellbeing and provides a space for the elevation of marginalised voices.

The workshop includes a 35-minute live performance by Wake The Beast Theatre Company, followed by a presentation of outcome data and facilitated discussion on effective ways of utilising the arts in health settings.

The workshops are free and open to anyone with an interest in creative health and/or an interest in how storytelling can be used for increased wellbeing and resilience: creative practitioners, experts in public health, arts and health commissioners, GPs, nurses, health researchers, those working in museums and galleries, grassroots neighbourhood-based community organisations, theatres, universities – all are welcome.

Dates/times/locations – please register to secure your place:

Actors have performed these stories with clinical psychologists to staff in care homes, community clinics, meeting rooms and hospital wards across many NHS and Social Care sites. Wake the Beast were invited to perform ‘In Our Own Words’ at the Houses of Parliament in April 2023, and is currently touring the project to 12 NHS Trusts and organisations across England.