This document provides an agenda and instructions for a virtual mental health workshop. It includes details on how to participate through audio, video, polls and chat. The workshop will feature short films about mental health topics, a discussion with a panel of students and mental health professionals, and time for networking. Participants are reminded to care for themselves and are provided links to support resources throughout the session. The goal is to promote dialogue around mental health experiences and reducing stigma through creative works and community.

1. Panelists
To activate your audio:
● Click the blue headphones
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● Click the same button to
‘rejoin’, and select the
“Microphone” option
Welcome, everyone!
If you are just joining us...
Mental Health Support
Make sure you are logged in
with an asterisk in front of
your name: *Rebecca Pontieri
(He/Him)
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2. Welcome, everyone!
Share with us in the chat…
What’s something you need to put to take off / put to
the side / put on pause to be present here today?
If you’re connected to audio, you should hear
some music playing

3. *If joining on a mobile device,
please hold horizontally

4. meet your facilitator
Natalie Cook (she/her)
● Poet
● Filmmaker
● Theatre-Maker

5. POLL: Who’s here
today?
A Student at
Coastline College
C
B Faculty/staff at
Coastline College
Somebody else

6. POLL: Where in the
world are you?
California
A
C
B Another
state/province
Another country

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

8. land acknowledgement
We want to take a moment to acknowledge our central
Coastline campus sits on what was tribal land of the
Gabrielino/Tongva Nation and the Juaneño Band of
Mission Indians - Acjachemen Nation. Links to each
nation’s website are in the public chat.

9. 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 $25!)
● Mingle / Q&A

10. heads up
● 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 and
others however you need, including
asking for help

11. 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

12. 3 Ways to Engage
We welcome your participation!
CHAT BOX: Use the Public Chat
to connect with the whole group
#1

13. 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!

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

15. In Just a Few Words...
What has self-care been
looking like for you these days?
● Lap swim 4 days a week
● Cycling on the river pathways
● Prayer and meditation
● Hiking
● A face mask. Giving myself permission to close my eyes
and breathe while I bring myself back to awareness to be
present. Like a reset. Going to sleep to meditations or
frequency noise.
● Physical fitness really helps my mental health. When my
body feels good, I feel good. Additionally, reading the
Bible and the stories that are similar to what i am going
through.

16. MENTAL HEALTH

17. MENTAL HEALTH
Mental illness
Mental wellness

18. Some movies and
TV shows that show mental
illness…
● Sybil
● silver linings playbook
● Split
● A Beautiful Mind
● Girl Interupted
● You
● Burning Bed
● 13
● Fill in the blank
● Frankie and Alice

19. Characters with mental illness
are portrayed as…
● Depression, and fear
● Victim of violence
● villain's or having really tragic backstories
● angry, less than or unworthy
● lonely
● someone who can seem "normal" can be
struggling silently.

20. MH Across Cultures
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?

21. ● It is forgotten, moved aside, and stepped
over.
● You just can't really talk about it, people
don't want to hear it
● You are told not to talk about it.
● As a kid mental health did not exist it
was just an individual's moral failing.
● In my experience as a light-skinned
Latina, It was definitely something that
wasnt even mentioned. NOW, I try my
best to share awareness about it and be
the change to de-stigmatize it.

22. What is Stigma?
A judgment or stereotype that is:
● Always negative
● Always untrue
● Can be internalized

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

24. A Hopeful
C
B
D
E
Sad
Angry or
Frustrated
Overwhelmed
Worried or
Anxious
How are you feeling after
watching this film?

25. How does stigma feel?
● isolating
● alone at that time, and the only
one.
● like no one is there for you
● Like a sucky bandwagon
● annoying

26. What makes it difficult to
reach out for help?
● being seen as weak
● Because you feel that you are the only one experiencing depression.
● When you think about the burden to take time off when you feel needed
for others like work, school...other obligations for others
● Like you don't think you deserve that help
● Embarrassing
● Its okay to say No
● Don't want to show or admit how things are really going
● shows of weakness
● You don't always know what type of help you need and where to reach
out to receive it.
● I was always told "children are to be seen and not heard". Its hard now to
ask for help.

27. A Relaxing
C
B
D
E
Invigorating or
refreshing
Meh
Stressful or uncomfortable
New
How was this breathing exercise
for you?

28. XIETY
Carlos & Karen Torres
AWI Winner, January 2021
CONTENT HEADS UP
depictions and interpretations of anxiety and panic attack

29. What did you think?
How did you feel?
● it was a lot - but I have definitely felt like that before
● I felt myself tensing up
● I felt like the past, when I was running through a
tunnel and could not see the end.
● I could really relate to the feeling of being trapped
within your thoughts.
● Breathe and understand you did not do anything
wrong.
● you aren't alone.

30. Let’s go deeper…

31. What are some practices that
help support your wellness?
● Prioritize yourself. Take a warm shower when you feel stressed or tired
● yoga - meditation
● Making sure my medical and health are all taken care of and caught
up.
● My antidepressant has significantly stabalized my mood more.
Moments of being self aware of being present. Drinking water. Self
care routine (face mask, lavender body spray from LUSH, teeth
whitning session with home strips) doing my nails. Listening to
meditations on youtube.
● Spending time with my dogs helps balance my mind
● I was in depression for 12 years and was on the wrong medicine Just
on one medicine instead of five medicines, and has been a god send..

32. Body Scan

33. A Relaxing
C
B
D
E
Invigorating or
refreshing
Meh
Stressful or uncomfortable
New
How was this body scan for you?

34. Fortune Cookie
By Fu Yang
Voices With Impact 2023
CONTENT HEADS UP
Depictions of Burnout

35. 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

36. What are your impressions?
● I want to be able to nationally
implement mental health conversations
in every school grades K-12
● I found that pulling myself away from
the past, by admitting that I did what I
could and did the best that I could.
● Clips were awesome

37. How can we support ourselves
and others?
● Actively listening to others and give support if its
wanted.
● we don't know what others are living with or through.
● Share our story with others and offer them access to
our ressources.
● By trying differently things we do, and understand that
always doing the same way is not always the best way.

38. Let’s give a digital round of
applause for our panel!
panel

39. Anjanette Woods, RN (she/her)
Coastline Alumni
Claudia Vernon (she/her)
Director of Student Mental Health Services at Coastline
Amanda Wilson-Eck (she/her)
Program Manager - NAMI-OC
meet the panel

40. virtual mingle / Q&A
Ask a question or share a thought!
You can raise your hand (see image below) to be
given
instructions to audio in, use the public chat box, or
send a private message to AWI Support / a
panelist.

41. Please fill out the evaluation!
You can enter for a chance to win a $25 gift!
bit.ly/coastline-survey
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.
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