Movies for Mental Health is an arts-based mental health workshop that focuses on empowering young adults, educators, health professionals and community members to gain a better understanding of mental health within their environment. Knowing that art speaks the language of our interior worlds, we harness film to engage with young people on the vital topic of mental health and mental illness, inspiring them to tell their own stories and explore those of others.The event also connects students with mental health resources available to them, empowering them to seek support and heal as individuals and communities.

1. Panelists
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Mental Health Support
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asterisk in front of your name: *Alex
Reynolds (they/them)
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2. Welcome, everyone!
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#Movies4MentalHealth
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4. Amanda Lederle, (they/them)
★ Recovering perfectionist from
Tkaronto
★ Visual Artist, Arts Admin and
Active Listener
★ Love discussions around
creativing & mental health
★ Watching any shows/films to
share?

5. POLL: Who’s here today?
A
Student at
Brandon
University
C
B
#Movies4MentalHealth
Faculty/staff at
Brandon
University
Somebody else
(share in chat!)

6. POLL: Where in the world are you?
Province of Brandon
University
A
C
B
#Movies4MentalHealth
Another province
Another country

7. ● Campus workshops
● Monthly short film competition
● Short film production grants
● Global community
Student Services

8. #Movies4MentalHealth
● 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

9. ● 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 in holding this space
together, including speaking with compassion, and asking
for support
●
#Movies4MentalHealth

10. 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
#Movies4MentalHealth

11. 3 Ways to Engage
We welcome your participation!
CHAT BOX: Use the Public Chat
to connect with the whole group
#1
#Movies4MentalHealth

12. POLL: respond
to a Poll when
prompted
#2
Set Your Status by
clicking on your name
and selecting from
the drop-down menu
#3
#Movies4MentalHealth
3 Ways to Engage
We welcome your participation!

13. If you need tech support, ask…
Look for the person whose name begins with
AWI Support and Private Chat them with any issues.
#Movies4MentalHealth

14. #Movies4MentalHealth
In Just a Few Words...
What has self-care been
looking like for you these days?
● Going to bed early/getting enough sleep!!
● allowing myself to not feel guilty for choosing rest over studying while i
have covid-19
● Walking, time for reading, and gratitude. Exploring ways to sleep better.
● Physio for knee injury
● Choosing positive connections and listening to what my body tells me!!!
●

15. MENTAL HEALTH

16. Mental illness
Mental wellness
MENTAL HEALTH

17. Some movies and
TV shows that show mental
illness…
#Movies4MentalHealth
● A beautiful mind
● House
● Shameless
● Sex Education
● Hoarders
● Still Alice

18. Characters with mental illness
are portrayed as…
#Movies4MentalHealth
● Troublesome
● often portrayed like their mental illness is the most interesting
or important thing about who they are
● Mental illness is often dramatized
● Square pegs in round holes
● Displayed as weirdness rather than illness
● Not in control

19. MH Across Cultures
In just a few words, please share:
How have you experienced the concept of "mental health" within your own cultural communities?
● Stigmatizing
● I find that it is acknowledged but not talked about much
because people are unsure how to
● looked at as over sharing instead of destigmatizing

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

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

22. A Hopeful
C
B
#Movies4MentalHealth
D
E
Sad
Angry or
Frustrated
Overwhelmed
Worried or
Anxious
How are you feeling after
watching this film?

23. How does stigma feel?
#Movies4MentalHealth
● Like rejection
● Discards, disregards, and shut downs
● Compressive. Claustraphobic.
● frustrating as a provider,
● Shameful
● Isolating and overwhelming

24. What makes it difficult to
reach out for help?
#Movies4MentalHealth
● Fear of judgement or that no one else would understand. maybe that
you do not even understand yourself what you are going through
● Feeling judged and unsupported
● Feeling that you are not allowed to have your feelings
● feeling shame and not knowing where to go
● Hard to trust others with + feeling humiliated and incapable
●

25. Breathing
Exercise

26. #Movies4MentalHealth
A Relaxing
C
B
D
E
Invigorating or
refreshing
Meh
Stressful or uncomfortable
New
How was this breathing exercise
for you?

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

28. #Movies4MentalHealth
What did you think?
How did you feel?
● Empathy
● Made me want to cry for her
● powerful images and sounds
● hard to see the moments where she knows the panic attack is coming
and is trying to keep it from happening.....like climbing to the top of a
rollercoaster right before you go down
●

29. Let’s go deeper…
#Movies4MentalHealth
● "it's ok to not be ok! you are safe here."
●

30. What are some practices that
help support
your wellness?
#Movies4MentalHealth
● Getting outside regardless of the weather
● counselling, exercise, nutritionally dense diet, adequate sleep, saying
no, being on the land
● regular scheduled activities with friends/family
● Having positive people around me (rather than negative ones)
● Learning to take care of my boundaries has been a massive change for
me
●

31. Body Scan

32. #Movies4MentalHealth
A Relaxing
C
B
D
E
Invigorating or
refreshing
Meh
Stressful or uncomfortable
New
How was this body scan for you?

33. Like Minded
By Jeremiah Reyes
AWI Winner, April 2022
CONTENT HEADS UP
mention of childhood trauma

34. Where did you experience
this in your body?
#Movies4MentalHealth
A Head
C
B
D
E
Shoulders
Somewhere else
I didn’t feel it in my body
Belly

35. #Movies4MentalHealth
What did you think?
How did you feel?
● Tone was more hopeful, supportive, normalized the
experiences/feelings
● Part of a community
● freedom of the bike and the night and friendship came through
beautifully
●

36. #Movies4MentalHealth
How can support ourselves
and others?
● Be kinder & less judgmental of ourselves. Change the self-messages.
Speak & support ourselves as we would speak to and support others.

37. Round of applause for our panel!
#Movies4MentalHealth

38. Click the link in chat to learn more!
Exclusive community events and spaces
Arts-based discussion trainings
Interview and discussion opportunities
Weekly art + wellness prompts

39. Stephanie Spence (she/they)
Student, Brandon University
Marsha Harris (she/her)
Counseling Therapist, Student Services, Brandon University
Chris Blaikie (he/him)
Service Navigator, 7th Street Health Access Centre,
Prairie Mountain Health
Ingrid Dickie (she/her)
Westman Crisis Services

40. #Movies4MentalHealth
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

41. 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.
#Movies4MentalHealth
Ask a question or share a thought!

42. #Movies4MentalHealth
Upcoming October AWI Events:
All virtual, all free!
● Thursday, Oct 20: Sanctuary Space: “Horror Movies: Exploring Mental
Health, Monsters and Stigma”
● Wednesday, Oct 26: Sanctuary Space: “Diversity in Horror Movies”
Check out these and future events by following the
link in the chat!

43. #Movies4MentalHealth
Stay in touch!
Follow the links in the Public Chat to:
● Sign up for Continued Connections
● Submit a film about mental health to our monthly competition
● Volunteer to share at a “My Mental Health Story” event
@artwithimpact info@artwithimpact.org
...and don’t forget to copy/paste the
resources in the Shared Notes!