Sisu

Sisu is a Finish word best described by this following paragraph… Read ahead, and if this inspires you and describes how you’d like to feel, then it might be just what you need!

Sisu: See-Soo (noun)

Extraordinary endurance in the face of adversity. Persistence, bravery, determination, guts, courage, grit, tenacity, resolve, willpower and an indominatable spirit. The strength to get through the things you once thought were impossible to handle. An action mindset giving you the power to see beyond your present situation and into what might be.

What is Sisu about?

This 5 week course aims to provide you with some key tools to help you to tackle stress, anxiety or low moods and manage behaviours, such as disordered eating or deliberate self-harm. The Sisu course runs either in small groups (single or mixed gender) or in 1:1 mentoring sessions and is led by our team of experienced youth workers.

Over the weeks we will be helping you to understand yourself; to discover what triggers positive and negative emotions in you, and to explore your individual needs when you’re facing tough times. Our hope is that you’ll uncover a number of key things you can rely on to help you to feel calm, secure, safe, happy and alive and know how to use them to fight against negative thoughts.   

To take part in Sisu we would ask that you feel ready to face the issues you’ve been struggling with and that you WANT to see a positive change for yourself. We won’t ask you to share these things out loud with the group but there will be plenty of time to think and work through what you’ve been facing and speak 1:1 with one of the team.