Mercy college of ohio m4 mh online - 2.17.21 - presentation (2)

#Poetry4MentalHealth
#Movies4MentalHealth
@artwithimpact
HOSTED BY:

About Your Facilitator
Beth Killian, she/her
• Recent MSW grad
• Musician, Songwriter, Dancer
• Hopeful Music/Movement
Therapist
IG: @bethanywheremusic

POLL: Who’s here today?
A
Student at
Mercy College
C
B
Faculty/staff at
XYZ school
Somebody else
(share in chat!)

POLL: Where in the
world are you?
Ohio
A
C
B
Another state
Another country

○ Campus workshops
○ Monthly short ﬁlm competition
○ Short ﬁlm production grants
○ Global community
BROUGHT TO YOU BY
Individual Sponsors
○ Theresa Cukierski, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
○ Patrick Santilli, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
○ Elana Hunter, Clinical Director, MEd, LPCC-S
○ Amanda VanHorne, AASECT Pre-Clinical Fellow
○ JenniferKnapp, LPCC, Christian Counselor, Dance/Movement
Therapist, and EMDR Therapist

HERE’S THE PLAN
● Setting the scene together
● Watch and discuss ﬁlms, connect our
minds and bodies
● Panel of students and resources
● Evaluation (and a chance to enter to win
one of three $25 Amazon gift cards!)
● Virtual Mingle / Q&A (Optional)

Mental health is personal – YOU are the expert
on your own experience
We are online - this is a public, shared space
We are recording this session for internal
training and evaluation purposes
Please take care of yourself however you need,
including asking for help
HEADS UP

NEED SUPPORT?
Access mental health support throughout this workshop.
Click Shared Notes
to link to online
resources
Private Chat mental health pros.
They are at the top and have * next
to their names
#1 #2

3 WAYS TO ENGAGE
We welcome your participation!
CHAT BOX: Use the
Public Chat to connect
with the whole group
#1

POLL: respond
to a Poll when
prompted
#2
Set Your Status by
clicking on your name
and selecting from
the drop-down menu
#3
3 WAYS TO ENGAGE
We welcome your participation!

If you need tech
support, ask…
Look for the person whose name begins with
AWI Support and Private Chat them with any issues.

IN JUST A FEW WORDS...
What has self-care been
looking like for you these days?
● Creating Artwork
● Working out
● Cleaning my room, baking, face masks
● Sleeping, listening to music
● Meditation, essential oils
● Saying NO! Demanding and taking ME TIME
● Sunshine!
● Watching the birds
● Netﬂix, YouTube, Audiobooks
● Positive self talk
● Making kombucha
● Reading, self-development
● Creating new meals/recipes
● Work out with free apps and adult coloring
● Going on a walk with my dog

MENTAL HEALTH

Mental illness
Mental wellness
MENTAL HEALTH

Some movies and TV shows that
show mental illness…
● Silver Linings Playbook
● A Beautiful Mind
● 13 Reasons Why
● Split
● Shameless
● Hotel Cecil
● Black Swan
● This Is Us
● Grey’s Anatomy
● Us
● A Million Little Things
● Benny & Joon
● The Haunting of Hill House
● All American
● Rectify
● Glass Castle
● United States of Tara

Characters with mental illness are
portrayed as…
● “Crazy” or Different
● Marginalized
● Dysfunctional
● Alone
● Helpless
● Addiction
● Criminal
● Sporadic
● Impulsive
● Lost
● Misunderstood
● Atypical
● Weird or Strange
● Attention Seeking
● “Over Exaggerating”
● Reckless or dangerous

MH ACROSS CULTURES
● Undesirable, it’s hush hush
● Something believed to be limited to the poor or low economic groups
● A stigma/hidden, a no-talk subject
● “Pray it away”
● Within my own culture people believe counseling is for the weak
● It was never acknowledged within my family but through self development i am learning that we all
suffer; recover out loud :)
● People have no idea what to say/how to help
● Does not need to be addressed or treated
● The elephant under the rug
● In the US and the Midwest in particular it seems taboo to talk about anything that's unhappy for too long
● A family member was afraid to tell family that they were dealing with it because it was embarrassing, like
they couldn't control themselves
● most people around me are accepting and understanding about mental illness which I am very grateful
for :)
● Exposes vulnerability
● Although it’s more of a conversation, it is still something most hide or are embarrassed/uncomfortable
addressing
Across different cultures and languages, people talk about
and explore mental health in multiple ways. In just a few
words, please share: How have you experienced the concept
of "mental health" within your own cultural communities?

WHAT IS STIGMA?
A judgment or stereotype that is:
○ Always negative
○ Always untrue
○ Can be internalized

Mind Matters
By Josef Adamu
AWI Winner, November 2019
CONTENT HEADS UP
depression, stigma, alcohol use

HOW ARE YOU FEELING AFTER
WATCHING THIS FILM?
A Hopeful
C
B
D
E
Sad
Angry or
Frustrated
Overwhelmed
Worried or
Anxious

How does stigma feel?
● Isolating
● Alone
● Hurtful
● Different
● Frustrating
● Hopeless
● Embarrassing
● Shamefull
● Sad
● Alienating
● Confusing
● Overwhelming
● Pressure to be perfect
● Invalidating
● Unsupported & misunderstood

What makes it difficult to reach out
for help?
● Rejection
● No one is listening
● Pressures of “being a man”
● Judgement
● Being scared
● Feeling like you’re a burden to others
● It may be hard to admit your problem to yourself
● Belief that no one else feels the same way
● Embarrassed
● Energy level
● Makes you not feel independent
● People talk about and judge people as if they know what they are
about, when actually they have no clue
● My problems aren’t as bad as someone else’s
● Feeling bad about “complaining” but life stressors are all relative
● Like everyone else is coping ﬁne

BREATHING
EXERCISE

HOW WAS THIS BREATHING
EXERCISE FOR YOU?
A Relaxing
C
B
D
E
Invigorating
or refreshing
Meh
Stressful or
uncomfortable
New

Core.
By Ashlen Harkness
AWI Winner, November 2016
CONTENT HEADS UP
anxiety, intensity of sound and visuals

What did you think? How did you feel?
● It made me feel physically anxious
● Stressed
● Unsettled
● It felt accurate
● Sometimes you never know what someone else is going through
● Heavy
● I can relate on every level
● It was very realistic and heavy
● Real and raw
● Scared and confused
● It is deﬁnitely eye opening
● Uncomfortable
● Felt the emotions, a heavy feeling

What are some practices that help
support your wellness?
● Deep breaths
● Grounding and prayer
● Talking with others, expressing how you feel
● Breathing and reﬂection
● Talking it out
● Looking away from the screen, turning the volume down
● Thinking positive
● Seeing my therapist regularly
● Meditation
● Writing my feelings down
● We carry so much tension in our bodies so just moving my body,
stretching
● Belly breathing, bilateral stimulation
● Journaling or something calming like yoga
● Hiking
● Massage therapy

BODY
SCAN

HOW WAS THE BODY
SCAN FOR YOU?
A Relaxing
C
B
D
E
Invigorating
or refreshing
Meh
Stressful or
uncomfortable
New

Fighter
By Meagan Brown
AWI Winner, August 2020
CONTENT HEADS UP
discussion of culture of masculinity and trauma

WHERE DID YOU EXPERIENCE
THIS IN YOUR BODY?
A Head
C
B
D
E
Shoulders
Somewhere
else
I didn’t feel it in
my body
Belly

What did you think? How did you feel?
● Wow, I felt emotional
● Headache pain
● Sympathy, empathy
● Heaviness, I felt heavy
● Appreciative of first responders
● So sad but true that men feel that they cannot feel, let alone express
their emotions
● Certainly overwhelmed; heartfelt; first hand experience for sure
● Light at the end of the tunnel
● Guilty that society may have made them feel this way
● Feel for the wife and kids, may think they are the cause (at times)
● Being cognizant of the fact that mental health affects more than
just the person affected/diagnosed
● Wanting to help first responders
● Men have to be this icon of strength and dependability, they can’t
be ‘weak’
● It’s great that we have come a long way

How can we support ourselves and
others?
● Listen
● Initiate the conversation because others feel the same
● Be open
● Having an open mind
● Gently push beyond the “I’m ﬁne” answer
● Advocate, small random acts of kindness
● Smile- it is okay. Speak up and speak out
● Listen to understand, not to respond
● Taking a second to ask how someone is doing, check in and invite
conversation
● Become awayre of resources and share them
● Making a safe space
● There are a lot of opportunities we have everyday to take that
moment and ask questions to coworkers
● Set up and respect boundaries
● Hug or touch if it is okay
●

PANEL
Digital round of applause
for our panel!

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Arts-based discussion trainings
Interview and discussion opportunities
Weekly art + wellness prompts

MEET THE PANEL
bit.ly/m4mho-mercy-college
Melissa Hane (she/her)
Mercy College of Ohio Graduate, 2019
Victoria Agbornduku (she/her)
Mercy College of Ohio Student
Ann Bair (she/her)
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Mercy College of Ohio
Elijah Jones (he/him)
Manager of Treatment Services, Mental Health & Recovery Services
Board of Lucas County

Please ﬁll out the evaluation!
@artwithimpact
info@artwithimpact.org
You will receive a $10 Amazon gift card!
If you are receiving credit for attending this workshop, at the end of the
evaluation, you’ll be prompted to add your information to a sign-in sheet.
Evaluation responses will remain separate and anonymous.

Virtual Mingle / Panel Q&A
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