UK sexual assault on children take reserve comedy courses Rape and sexual assault
Survivors of sexual assault on children (CSA) take courses in Standop Comedy to help treat their trauma, in the first plan in the United Kingdom.
Angie Belcher, the first person to get the NHS Standup comedy on her project, has run a two -day referral comedy program in Bristol last week.
“The comedy is often a tragedy in addition to time, and these are the people who have already passed with great advice, and they are now looking forward to doing something different to preserve themselves busy,” Bilcher said.
She said: “Saying that something funny does not mean that it is not sad or dangerous.” Standup comedy can be part of a recovery because it restores power to the victim by laughing at their oppressor. So instead of going, “Oh my God, that was terrible”, they can say: “Do you know what? The man who raped me a tingling was. Let me tell you why.
There is an estimated 11 million CSA survivors in the UK. A recent report by the Child Protection Review Committee found that at least one in 10 children will be exposed to sexual abuse before the age of 16.
CSA can lead to problems in subsequent life, including addiction, post -trauma disorder, personal disorders, long -term clinical psychological diagnoses and suicide.
Belcher used comedy to address issues about CSA before. She has twice gathered at the annual conference of The Green House, a charity funded by the home office that provides specialized support for CSA survivors.
It was this event that prompted her to start the survivors after young people at the conference asked that it helps in writing Standup comedy for the Green House Csa.
Green House, CEO of Green House, said:
Encouraged the active recovery scheme for the Southmead charitable project in Bristol, 12 of the survivors used their shock as a launching bloc to write a comedy in the Belcher course. Young people learned to write jokes, discover their “comedic personality” and use the “inner comedy actor” in their daily lives.
Ryan Moore learns to stand with Belcher through Green House and active recovery. He said: “There are no birth control pills that doctors gave me, making me feel good as if I were on the stage and I am talking about all the difficult things that happened in my life.”
Moore said that although “there is nothing funny about CSA”, it was found that it is necessary to tell the masses about it as part of his action so that they can understand the subsequent “wild” life.
He said: “I do not have a single joke about abuse, but this is the context of the crazy puberty stage, which is very funny.” “When I am transparent and honest with the audience, I build a relationship. This is so remedial that when I get out of the theater, I am dealing with next week and feel proud of that much more than if I had to take birth control pills to survive.”
Jemima Foxtrot, director of Kindreds Creatives, who runs creative workshops for CSA survivors, said that converting the shock into a Standop comedy was a “high -risk strategy” but had “huge rewards”.
She said: “When I had mistreatment, I can hardly say the words: When I told my mother, I had to write it.” “But because I have now dealt with theater programs now, I finally reached a place where I can speak very frankly.”
“The humor is a great survival strategy for our society,” said VIV Gordon, the coach of the survivors presented, a creative arts organization that increases the vision of CSA survivors for adults.
“For me personally, it was always a way to survive, and a way to exist with unbearable pain and with the challenges and difficulties of having an experience that I could not talk about,” she added.
James McCainon also welcomed the charitable survivors of the UK. He said: “It is not an approach to everyone, but comedy can provide a strong sense of proxy and release, and a different perspective from difficult experiences.”
