Visitors to the Helsinki City Festival are offered help to the things that come to mind in the care chair.
Mind Association’s Care Championship staff from left to right: Volunteers Kati and Teija, crisis workers Elina and Terhi Honkio, and Volunteering Coordinator Sini Hanski. Pink bröijer
At the Helsinki City Festival, festival visitors have the opportunity to discharge a trained volunteer. This is a Mind Association’s Care Chair, where festival visitors can discuss things over their minds.
Mind Crisis Center Helsinki Volunteering Coordinator Sini Hanski tells Iltalehti that discussions are anonymously and confidentially. According to Hansk, the discussions last up to 45 minutes. The care chair is open at festivals from evening until midnight.
– We have said that it is not worthwhile to come to keep the care chair as soon as the festivals open. Yes, that need for chat focuses on evening and night, Hanski says.
A festival visitor can sit in a care chair if you want to talk about weighty things with a trained volunteer. Pink bröijer
According to Hansk, people’s opening topics vary greatly.
– There may have been something for man here at the event that he wanted to come to discuss. Some may have had a quarrel with a group of friends or anxious about the crowd. For example, someone may have had a panic attack on and we have given him a peaceful space and handled it, the coordinator lists.
– Some may have had something in life, which is why they wanted to come to talk. They may have a difficult situation in their own lives, and the contrast to the joyful party of the party here has been so big that they have felt that they have not entered the same festival atmosphere.
Hanski says that on Friday some festival visitors came to tell them about their disappointment in the festival arrangements.
-They were not actually “care chairs”, but so-called corridor discussions. People stopped at our point to tell their moods.
For example, the grocery chair has come to tell about the problems and disappointment of one’s own life to the festival. Pink bröijer
Iltalehti reported on Friday that the queues of the festival in Helsinki and its yard were long, people packed in tight spaces, cloaks closed and customers did not know about the services and practices of the festival area. Iltalehti readers even described the event as “the worst -organized festivals of all time”.
The technical producer of Loud n ‘Live Vilho Riihimäki told Iltalehti that he promised that the festival area and arrangements have been improved for Saturday.
– Narica has been improved, there will be more queuing routes to prevent the queues from getting involved. We expand the norm area and reduce the VIP area to get out of packing. We improve informing sign. We have had two new water points in the area. We have taken a booth on customer feedback, Riihimäki listed.