The Empathy Project is our award-winning core programme. We are creating a thriving community of Story Exchange facilitators and participants across Ireland. To date we have trained 248 teachers and 65 Youth workers, bringing the Story Exchange model to thousands of young people nationwide.
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The Girls Stories project was founded in 2017, a lead on from project Art-iculate and is an integration project and afterschool meeting place for young adolescent migrant females new to Limerick city.
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Calling all community leaders and youth workers who work with Traveller and Roma communities. Narrative 4 is partnering with Creative Ireland to train 12 youth workers to become certified Story Exchange Facilitators. This training is valued at €500 but is offered to 12 selected applicants for free.
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A Narrative 4 Limerick is a monthly story-telling event that invites you to share and experience the true honest and heartfelt stories that make Limerick special. Hosted by a guest artist who sets a theme.
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In Spring, in partnership with Mary Immaculate Colleges Embracing Diversity, Nurturing Integration, Learning for Life Project we ran 24 workshops for 119 children in four Limerick City DEIS primary schools, CBS (Scoil Iosagain) Sexton Street, Our Lady of Lourdes Rosbrien, Presentation Primary Sexton Street and St. Johns girls and infant boys.
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From the Guardian (UK): These students from Birmingham and Limerick have only just met. What did a weekend of sharing their most intimate stories teach them?
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The Narrative 4 Global Summit takes place in June each year. It brings together young leaders who are involved with N4 from around the world, with educators, guest speakers and writers/artists to share insights and experiences on change-making. Students from Ireland join students from South Africa, Palestine, Israel, Mexico and the United States for a week each year.
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Elizabeth O’Neill investigates the concept of radical empathy and the power of story-telling.
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“ This was the first time doing anything like this. It was lovely to get to know teenagers in my community as I would not know many young people. I feel I have made new friends”
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Actor Cillian Murphy, who is involved in the NUI Galway/Unesco “activating social empathy” project, alongside students who have taken part in the project. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw. The recent suicide of UK television presenter Caroline Flack shone a spotlight on online abuse and how people who are decent and mannerly to each other’s faces can often be cruel…
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