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Connecting with self using Mindful Pottery

Mindful pottery is for everyone and to people who are experiencing any stress, anxiety or any negative emotions in their daily life and looking for an avenue to regulate their emotions. 

Humanisinglives collaborated with Rashmi Singh who is UNESCO certified Expressive Art Therapist in order to combine aspects of neuropsychology with clay art to create a robust therapeutic experience. Throughout the pottery session, the focus was more on the process rather than the end product. The workshop aimed at helping the participants understand themselves and manage their negative emotions better, while finding a like-minded community within the space. 

Few takeaways from the workshop:
*Importance of being in the moment/being mindful
*Feeling of community bond and safe space
*Becoming more aware of our emotions and how one can regulate them 
*Connecting with self
*Understanding that the final outcome and perfecting it is not the key 
*Understanding that one should be more engaged in the process and reflect on themselves

 

Managing Stress and Burnout in Corporate Culture 

Workplace burnout hampers efficiency; it sucks out all the joy in one’s life and leaves one stranded against a pile of looming deadlines and zero drive to do anything.

Humanisinglives team did a very engaging session on Burnout and Stress Management at A&N Buying house to help them see the mental health of their employees as a collective priority and not individual challenge. The workshop aimed at helping the employees be more aware of how stress has been affecting them in terms of their health, behaviour and emotions, that is, their mental and physical health, in different unnoticeable and noticeable ways. The employees were also equipped with small strategies that they can use at any point of the day to manage their stress levels.

Few takeaways from the workshop:

*Brought more awareness to our mind and body through the activity conducted
*Greater insight on how body works during stress
*Realisation on how work-life balance gets affected and can be managed
*Went back home with a difference in their mood and physical health after the meditation activity 
*Learned small techniques to cultivate the strategies for stress management during work hours
*Reflected on their personal experiences with respect to stress and how it affects them in the smallest ways.

Psychosexual Education for Boys

Psychosexual health and intimate hygiene for men is a subject of stealth that is not adequately addressed let alone considered. It is often avoided as a concept of education that is necessary for young children so that they are more aware about themselves and the environment as they grow up.


We at Humanisinglives believe it to be a subject of equal importance and hence, decided to conduct a workshop that focused on various aspects of psychosexual education like healthy boundaries, good and bad touches, the significance of respectful communication and healthy ways of establishing emotional and physical boundaries. The responses received and the interaction was definitely encouraging and eye opening for all.


Few Takeaways from the workshop:

*Gaining an insight about boundaries in different kinds of relationships

*Learning how to communicate better and effectively

*Learning more about intimate hygiene

*Gaining more knowledge on how to regulate our emotions better in daily life

*Learning what entails healthy friendships and playful touch as a part of it

Suicide Prevention Workshop At Gurgaon Prison

Team of Humanisinglives’s went to the Gurgaon prison to facilitate a workshop on “Suicide Prevention” with prison inmates in collaboration with India Vision Foundation.

Our main goal was to provide them an experiential space  to help them acknowledge that their personal journeys may be different but they all go through the same human emotions, which are moulded by their collective experience inside that prison.

In midst of the workshop, we observed that somewhere they all wanted to be heard...they all had similar stories and traumatic experiences. 

Incarceration takes a serious toll on mental health for several reasons. 

1.People can experience a loss of purpose when they’re locked up.

2. The loss of sense of self can be quite disorienting, confusing, and troublesome.

3. Missing their loved ones and not being part of their daily lives increases feelings of isolation and loneliness.

4. Concrete walls, little natural night, and a lack of overall stimulation can take a serious toll on mental health.

A lack of psychiatrists, psychologists and dysfunctional state machinery is contributing to worsening mental health conditions in prisons. Treating people during incarceration and providing access to mental health after they’re released may reduce recidivism rates

One-day online Workshop on the theme of ‘Mental Health Problems and Suicide Prevention in Prisons’.

Suicide is often the single most common cause of death in correctional settings. Jails, prisons and penitentiaries are responsible for protecting the health and safety of their inmate populations, and the failure to do so, can be open to legal challenge. 

Therefore, The Institute of Correctional Administration
(ICA), Chandigarh conducted a  one-day online Workshop on the theme of ‘Mental Health Problems and Suicide Prevention in Prisons’.

Our Assistant psychologist Sidhartha Arya took a insightful session with State Prison Officers and highlighted the issues and early signs of suicide to promote preventative measures with the aim to reduce the number of suicides in prisons.

Few take aways from workshops are as under-

The importance of winning in small task daily.

Checking our negative thoughts and examining the evidence if they are true or not.

How Information feeding results in our thoughts and then feelings and behaviour.

Importance of active listening.

How different activities in jail can improve the overall culture organically.

Thanks to Dr Upneet Lalli Deputy Director ,ICA.
Inst of Correctional Adm. for her guidance and support.