“People start talking because it’s a safe space, they feel like they can talk and engage with their barber,” Mr Farrell said.<\/p>\n
“They’ve got 30 minutes in the chair and it helps them to off load and vent, whatever issues they’ve got.”<\/p>\n
Dr Chanelle Dennis, from Melanin Moods, jointly leads the sessions and said it was a service that aimed to tackle the taboo and stigmas that existed within the black and brown communities. <\/p>\n
Her colleague Talisa Mesquitta\u00a0added: “We want to ensure that the barber shop, as it always has been for black men, remains that safe space.<\/p>\n
“They know that they can come here and be open and talk about whatever it is they want to talk about and it’s not going to leave here.”<\/p>\n
The evenings have been running for two years and participants said subjects that have been covered included fatherhood and learning more about anxiety and understanding the impact on themselves and others.<\/p>\n
The men come up with action plans to hold one another to account to deal with issues while “checking in” on each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“People start talking because it’s a safe space, they feel like they can talk and engage with their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114618237322798116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}