NISAD has developed a new form of treatment called Story-based Therapy.

It is unique in that it addresses two major difficulties everyone working in emotional wellbeing encounters: How to stop the person using a programme designed to help them from just getting too bored to continue – and how to help people who have long-held beliefs about how the shape and nature of their life should be to break away from their prejudices and investigate new ways to be alive and be happy.

“NISAD will be running competitions in both Scandinavia and Ireland to attract writing talent to come and work with their clinical programmes.”