The Listen, Live and Learn Initiative is unique to Stellenbosch University. A listening, living & learning house (LLL house) is students living together in a house. Participants have a specific theme for the year and engage in conversation on the theme for the year that they live together. The students in the LLL house are ideally a small diverse group of students from different faculties, gender, race, background and nationality. Each LLL house has a theme for the year. The house hosts a conversation around the theme inviting academics, civil servants, experts and other people to join the conversation in the house.
The Listen, Live and Learn (LLL)-intern responsible for Social Entrepreneurship, Ellen Ovenden, invited the CSCD to be involved in their March Mental Health-programme.
The CSCD was involved on several levels. Angelique McConney served as part of a panel discussion that took place in the LLL Village quad on Tuesday 10 March at 17h30. The questions focused on mental health, the myths around mental illness, treatment available, as well as the services provided by the CSCD on campus. Angelique was joined on the panel by three other Mental Health experts.
The UPSS also assisted with compiling questions around mental health, specific to each of the 27 LLL houses that was posted on their Facebook-pages to facilitate discussion and reflection.
The UACD also participated by providing information on stress and anxiety that was distributed to students during the third week of March.
We hope to build on the partnership we formed during this collaboration with LLL – what an exciting way to contribute to the dialogue on campus!
More information on the LLL initiative can be found on http://www.sun.ac.za/lll
