About PHAROS

About Pharos:

PHAROS is a project, based in Gozo, to provide help and hope – in an educational setting – to people suffering from mental health or emotional challenges, also reaching out to their friends, families, carers, and professionals involved in their care.

What is “Help and hope – in an educational setting?”

The aim is to set up a Recovery College. This would help people affected by mental health issues, emotional difficulties, and trauma, to learn from their experiences. This will assist in regaining a sense of self, empower people to find ways of living with and beyond the limitations that they might feel, and to engage more fully with life.

Our Progress:

Discussions have been afoot since 2013 to make this a reality.   Before launching the College in Gozo with appropriate NGOs and statutory bodies, a pilot project ran for a few weeks in Gharb from 15 December 2014 to 2 January 2015. Ian Springham delivered courses in English on “An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation” and “The Five Ways to Wellbeing” in these trial sessions, to a warm and welcome response.  Having demonstrated the viability of such courses, we continued with our regulatory registration with The Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations and Gozo NGOs Association.  Although not then a statutory obligation, such registration is important in establishing our bona fides, showing good governance and applying for external help and funding.

What happens next?

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