Salvation Army

The PEEL programme is proven to have many measurable benefits to the mental health and well-being of its participants. As part of ASHA & Co’s ongoing relationship with The Salvation Army, several senior members of their Youth and Children’s Ministry Unit were invited to participate in a special PEEL programme run by Marksteen on the remote Gower peninsula in Wales.

The focus of this session was purely on photography, with the members of the team being encouraged to explore landscape, portraiture and photographing objects in detail using only black and white film. The attendees hoped that the experience would help them to create a space for building and celebrating the team. By enabling them to get to know one another better they could establish and deepen the bonds of trust and truth that existed between them.

“For me personally I found I was stretched and challenged in ways I hadn’t imagined. A trust that went beyond the superficial but into something far deeper – light indeed shining out of the darkness.” Helen Schofield