The Impact of Witnessing Human Rights Abuses: Vicarious Trauma
This session is part of The Wellbeing Monthly 2023, a monthly virtual workshop will be led by diverse mental health professionals, and will focus on psychoeducation and coping mechanisms on diverse topics including anxiety and fear, guilt and survivors guilt, defeat and hopelessness, trauma, and burnout and stress.
- Who: Fahad Awan
- Date: Tuesday, June 20
- Time: 9am EDT / 1pm UTC (What time is it in my city?)
- Language: English
- Location: Zoom
👉🏽 RSVP: https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/wellbeingmonthly1
The Impact of Witnessing Human Rights Abuses: Vicarious Trauma
The workshop on vicarious trauma will be examining the emotional and psychological impact of witnessing human right abuses and strategies for recognition and response. Participants will learn:
- About vicarious trauma and how it can impact their lives as digital right defenders.
- A deeper understanding of compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout.
- Practical tools for self-care, resilience-building, and establishing healthy boundaries.
Fahad Awan (he/they) is a Fulbright Scholar and a Mental Health Counselor who graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University. He works at the junction of Psychology, Education and Consulting, has worked on wellness programmes of over 250 schools in Pakistan and aims to restructure the landscape of mental health in developing countries, hoping to make it more inclusive, accessible and affordable. They operate from an Intersectional and feminist lens, specializing in issues surrounding gender, sexual orientation and identity.
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