In his 41 years as a barber, Danny Ciantar has heard about everything from break-ups and bankruptcy to the loss of children and wives.
So when Ciantar was asked if he would be part of Cut the Silence – a campaign promoting barber shops in Macedon Ranges as a safe space for men to talk openly about what is going on in their lives – he leapt at the opportunity. Mat Garbutt, a Gisborne local who works for advertising agency Fenton Stephens, suggested using barbers after the Macedon Ranges Suicide Prevention Action Group approached the agency looking for tips on how to speak to men.had found 57 per cent of respondents agreed men in the region would not be comfortable talking about their mental health before things reached crisis point.
Garbutt says: “A lot of the time when people want to speak to men, they default to going through footy clubs and cricket clubs, but part of this whole exercise was recognising that not all men play sport.”
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