00:00It's about building a boat, but it's not about the boat, it's about the time that the men
00:29and women working on it spend doing it. It's working with them. The boat really is a by-product
00:37of what we're doing. In mental health, one thing you've got to have is time. If we were
00:47doing small projects with individuals, in and out, in and out, they wouldn't really
00:51get the benefit. We're building a team, getting people used to working back together with
00:57each other. People always think that they can't, and we will prove to individuals that
01:20you can. Once they have accepted that proof, they start to believe in themselves. It's
01:27self-affirming, this sort of stuff. We've got one lad who comes in, and he's got a PTSD
01:40and a bit of brain damage, and he comes in and they say, well, he can't do it, but he
01:44comes here, and you give him a job to do, I've had him making roses, and he focuses,
01:50and once he's focused on that, all his troubles are gone. We need a lot more doing from the
01:59government to help people, but the likes of this project, we could do anywhere. They could
02:09have a wood shop, or they could have some kind of project, go cars, anything, just to
02:18get people together, know they're not on their own.
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