Checking in on Your Friends
Protecting our Mental Health with Community Care
Take the first step towards a more compassionate and collective approach to mental health.
While self-care is often recommended as a means to promote well-being, it can inadvertently reinforce the harmful notion that individuals alone are solely responsible for their mental health, disregarding the systemic factors that contribute to their distress.
Our transformative 2-hour-and-a-half workshop titled Checking in on Your Friends: Protecting our Mental Health with Community Care aims to shift the focus from individual responsibility to collective action through engaging and practical exercises that delve into the principles of community care and emphasize using compassionate tools to assist our communities during times of emotional intensity. By exploring these concepts together, we can foster supportive environments that address the broader factors affecting mental health.
Join us in embracing community care as a powerful approach to protecting and supporting mental health!
By the end of this workshop, participants will have
- Differentiated Community Care from self-care as distinct approaches to mental health support.
- Explored the concept of “checking in” and its significance in interpersonal communication.
- Evaluated relevant questions to consider before engaging in a check-in.
- Practiced validation techniques during check-ins to foster compassion and understanding.
- Applied support-offering techniques for people in distress while establishing appropriate boundaries.
Photo Credit: Visionary Acts
Training Logistics
Population: For youth and young adults (13-30 years of age).
Capacity: Up to 20 participants max is ideal.
Mode: Virtual or in-person, no hybrid mode.
Language: English or Spanish.
Length: 2-hour and a half.
Cost: $3,500 (virtual) or $4,500 (in-person).
What really resonated with me was how to talk to people about mental health issues. I used to feel really worried when certain friends would open up to me that I wasn’t helping or even harming them, so this made me feel more prepared and useful.
I think this topic was so fascinating, and I am very glad to see an organization broaching mental health from a social justice approach and moving beyond an individualized approach.
I now know the definition of community care, strategies for engaging in reparative conversation, and that prioritizing healing and communal support is necessary as well as a rejection of the capitalist mindset.
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