The Wellbeing Monthly 2023
The Wellbeing Monthly is 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. Each session will last from 60 to 75 minutes, with time included for questions and answers.
How to RSVP
Check the list of sessions and click on the link to RSVP with the short form.
Sessions & Notes
The Impact of Witnessing Human Rights Abuses: Vicarious Trauma with Fahad Awan
June 20 @ 9am EDT / 1pm UTC (Tuesday)
Examining the emotional and psychological impact of witnessing human right abuses and strategies for recognition and response.
Survivor Guilt, Regret Rumination and How to Cop it as an Activist with Mathero Nkhalamba
July 18 @ 9am EDT / 1pm UTC (Tuesday)
The talk will focus on regret rumination and hindsight bias, coping with survivor guilt as an activist and exploring how survivor guilt looks like.
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Responding to Defeat and Creating Communities of Hope with Jehanzeb Baldiwala
August 8 @ 9am EDT / 1pm UTC (Tuesday)
In this session, participants will explore experiences of defeat in their activism, and learn how to create communities of hope.
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Imposter Syndrome in Activism: How Do We Cope? with Khumo Masege
October 3 @ 9am EDT / 1pm UTC (Tuesday)
This workshop will briefly explore the systems that impact and perpetuate the experience of imposter syndrome in marginalized communities and activist spaces.
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Getting to Know our Stress & Anxiety with Razzan Quran
November 21 @ 9am EDT / 1pm UTC (Tuesday)
In this session, we will experientially reflect together over our experiences with stress and anxiety, the meanings you attribute to your anxiety and stress, and various coping and adaptive mechanisms you have utilized to tend and restore yourself
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