“This calls for an enormous amount of ‘story’. Yes, the core ingredient of a new therapy called Story-based Therapy is, of course, stories. NISAD has opened a new facility in Dundalk, Ireland to attract, support and nurture “saga”.

It’s a co-operative project by two nations influenced by the Viking and Celtic traditions of story: Ireland and Sweden.”
“NISAD will be running competitions in both Scandinavia and Ireland to attract writing talent to come and work with their clinical programmes.”

Tadhg Ó Séaghdha, Head of Behavioural Psychology at NISAD, said – “Our intention is to provide talented, innovative writers with an income so that they can have the freedom to develop their own projects, whilst getting exciting story-lines that don’t just “hook-in” the users of our programmes, but help them achieve the goals they value most.”

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