There’s no doubt that all of us have been experiencing great challenges in the past years – in addition to dealing with our own personal and family issues, the world has thrown a pandemic, a war in Europe and the effects and threat of climate change at us! It can all have a detrimental effect on our wellbeing.
Dromore Methodist Church has in the past been a partner church with Kintsugi Hope, a charity based in the UK striving to make a difference to people’s mental wellbeing. “Kintsugi“ (金継ぎ) is a Japanese technique for repairing pottery with seams of gold. The word means ‘golden joinery’ in Japanese. This repairs the brokenness in a way that makes the object more beautiful, and even more unique than it was prior to being broken. Instead of hiding the scars it makes a feature of them.
We want to see a world where mental and emotional health is understood and accepted, with safe and supportive communities for everyone to grow and flourish. So we are ready to run a Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing Group upon request, a safe and supportive space for people who feel or have felt overwhelmed, offering encouragement and practical tools that help us to have hope for brighter days ahead.
We hosted the Brighter Days Tour in October 2023. It was an encouraging evening of humour, music and inspiration in a chat-show style with Patrick Regan, the author of Brighter Days and co-founder of the Kintsugi Hope charity.