This is a special workshop for any healthcare professional, student, or social worker:

Motivation.

• Understand the important nuances around mental health, and how to contextualize care towards various identity markers and backgrounds.
• Unlearn the biases you come from towards various communities, backgrounds, and identities.
• Provide a peer space for learning, un-learning, and gathering nuance.

Who should consider attending:

Mental health practitioners, social workers, doctors, counselors, Bachelor’s/Master’s students of psychology who have not been exposed to a systemic approach towards mental health care, and would like to broaden their perspective and unlearn their biases.

Topics & Schedules:

Joining our training would give you access to the following topics:

• Mental health is political: How do social structures affect us (Approx. 7 Hours)
• The impact of caste, religion, and disability on mental health (Approx. 7 Hours)
• Being Queer/Trans in a cis-het world (Approx. 7 Hours)
• Basic and Advanced skills as a sensitive, nuanced practitioner (Approx. 7 Hours)
• Relationships and Mental Health (Approx. 7 Hours)
• Socially Just and Holistic Mental Health Approaches (Approx. 7 Hours)
• Decolonizing Mental Health and The Human Experience (Approx. 7 Hours)
• Community Mental Health (Approx. 7 Hours)

Important Dates and Times:

• Training Dates: 7th, 13th, 14th, 21st, 27th August, 2022 , and 3rd, 4th September 2022 @11 am to 6 pm IST.
• Last date to sign up: 28th July 2022

About Your Facilitators:

• Shweta Srinivasan (she/her)

Shweta (ciswoman - she/her) is a therapist and co-founder of TheMindClan.com. Shweta holds a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology and an Advanced Diploma in Counselling Psychology with 5 years of experience. She is trained in Narrative Practices and Trauma Informed Therapy. Her practice as a therapist is anti-oppressive, queer affirmative and client-centred. Her heart lies in supporting people to recognize ways in which they resist dominant systems in their lives, strengthening their “utopias’’ or preferred worlds, and getting people in touch with their values and hopes.

• Sadaf Vidha (she/her)

Sadaf (ciswoman - she/her) is a therapist and researcher with five years of experience in different sectors including school, development space, and startups. She is also the founder of Guftagu psychotherapy and counseling center, Navi Mumbai. She uses art and narrative therapy in her work with individuals, families, and groups. She’s a queer affirmative therapist worked with clients having different concerns including anxiety, depression, body image issues, self-esteem issues and trauma.

• Aryan Somaiya (he/him)

Aryan (transman - he/him) is a therapist and trainer with 6 years of experience. He is a co-creator and cofacilitator of Queer Affirmative Counselling Practices and a queer affirmative therapist. He is also a co-founder of Guftagu psychotherapy and counseling center, Navi Mumbai. He has held training on gender-sexuality, pleasure, and desire at universities like the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He also has a keen interest in building safe spaces for queer and trans people. He primarily uses queer and trans feminist approaches and other strengthbased approaches to counselling.

• + 2 Guest Facilitators: We’re working on getting experienced facilitators on certain topics within the curriculum. Details of these guest facilitators will be shared on the day of their respective topics.

How To Join:

• Complete Payment.

  • The price mentioned is an early bird discount, subject to change as the training date nears.

• Complete Curation Form (will be e-mailed to you separately).

• Keep an eye on your emails for an update on whether you’ve been accepted into the training.

  • Post acceptance, all you must do is keep an eye on your emails for Google Calendar invites regarding the zoom links.
  • Join and experience all sessions to receive a certificate of completion from us. These training courses would not be recorded, so attending them is compulsory.
    • The training would primarily be facilitated in English, with Hindi as the secondary language.
    • Take your learnings from the intimate peer space back into your practice and allow them to shape your values as a healthcare professional.
  • If you’re not accepted into the course, we’ll give you a refund of the payment you made.

Have Questions?

• Write to us: [email protected]
• Limited group discounts available for groups of 3 and 5
• Limited scholarships available
• At the moment, we cannot provide sign language interpreters for the training, but if you have any recommendations or suggestions around how we could make the training more accessible, please write to us and we’ll love to learn more.