Wellness in Words (Burnout) at Cypress College, 10.19.23

1. Please sign in!

2. your facilitator
Jules Plumadore (he/they)
● Peer-led mental health &
social justice
● Movies, music, games
● Ohlone Land (Oakland, CA)
with partner & dog, Arvo

3. brought to you by…
● Campus workshops
● Short film competitions
● Short film production grants
● Global community

4. here’s the plan
1. Define our terms
2. Practice a way of expressing ourselves:
Immerse - Explore - Express
3. Share
4. Panel
5. Evaluation
(and a chance to enter to win $25!)

5. ● Mental health is personal – YOU are the expert on your own
experience
● This is a public, shared space
● We will be taking some photos - please let us know if you are not
comfortable with this!
● Please take care of yourself and others in holding this shared
space, together.
Give yourself what you need, including asking for help!
heads up

6. How are you, right now?
Horrible
So pumped it’s not even funny

7. This workshop is
for YOU.
Whatever your experience with mental health,
poetry or the topics we’re going to be discussing…

9. Mental illness
Mental wellness

10. What was your first
experience with poetry?
Share with us..

11. poetry
For this workshop we’ll define poetry as a
condensed expression of your thoughts or
feelings.
Anything you put to paper with intention
can be poetry.

12. Immerse, Explore, Express
As a group, we will immerse ourselves in 2
short films from our OLIVE Film Collection.
Together, we will explore the themes brought
up in the films through discussion.
Individually, we will express our thoughts and
feelings through writing exercises to create
poetry as a response.

13. Immerse, Explore, Express
Round 1

14. Are You Hungry?
By Rachel Rose & Belen Garcia
VWI Winner, 2023
CONTENT HEADS UP
Depiction of Abuse, Strong Language, Brief Vomiting

15. What’s coming up?
You are invited to share a few words to describe how
you’re feeling, or your thoughts on the film.
In small groups...

16. In small groups…
EXPLORE…
How do we work hard to be our best,
while still taking care of ourselves?

17. Share with the group:
How do we work hard to be our best,
while still taking care of ourselves?
● Set an alarm to tell me when to go to
bed and when to wake
● Set time aside on weekends to be
with friends, finish homework before
to make sure there’s enough time
● Having support groups

18. Free Write
“The Stories We Tell Ourselves…”

19. How did that feel?
Did you write anything that
surprised you?
Self Reflection

20. Find the Sculpture
“The Stories We Tell Ourselves…”

21. Let’s share!

22. Take a breath

23. Immerse, Explore, Express
Round 2

24. Fortune Cookie
by Fu Yang
Voices With Impact 2023
CONTENT HEADS UP
Depictions of Burnout

25. What’s coming up?
You are invited to share a few words to describe how
you’re feeling, or your thoughts on the film.
In small groups...
• When you feed negativity, it just keeps taking away from you
• When you give, give, give - they take, take, take
• The tradeoffs of work or school – sometimes they take to
much from us

26. How can we identify that a “yes”
today might lead to overwhelm in
the future?
In small groups…
EXPLORE…
• We say no in our minds, but not with our mouths
• If we’re having doubts, we need to speak up or it
can come back to bite us later

27. What can we do when
we’ve given too much?
In small groups…
EXPLORE…

28. Share your thoughts with the group:
● Take a break – assess, figure out what
we need
● Give ourselves permission to support
ourselves in whatever way we need
● Set boundaries

29. Free Write
“Finding My Light in the Dark…”

30. How did that feel?
Did you write anything that
surprised you?
Self Reflection

31. Find the sculpture
“Finding My Light in the Dark…”

32. Let’s share!

33. Take a breath

34. Immerse, Explore, Express
Round 3

35. finding gratitude…

36. What did you think?
How did you feel?
In pairs...

37. Freely & Deliberately
“All I need...”

38. Let’s share!

39. You can take this process forward…
Immerse
Explore
Express

40. Round of applause for our panel!
panel

41. meet the panel
Krista Chavez-Camacho (she/her/hers)
Health Educator - Cypress College Health Center
Anna Spencer-Lonetti (she/her/hers)
Mental Health Counselor - Cypress College Health Center
Kimberly Hernandez (she/her/hers)
NAMI Orange County Warmline

42. Mingle / Q&A
Ask a question or share a thought!
You can raise your hand or fill out an index card and
submit a question or comment anonymously.

43. Please fill out the evaluation!
You can enter for a chance to win a $25 gift!
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.
#artwithimpact
info@artwithimpact.org
https://bit.ly/wiw-cypress-survey

44. Stay in touch!
Don’t forget to sign
in if you haven’t!