College of the canyons m4 mho - 5.13.21 - presentation (1)

#Poetry4MentalHealth
#Movies4MentalHealth
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About Your Facilitator
Carly D. Weckstein, she/her
• Theatre Director
• Intimacy Choreographer
• Sex Educator
• Bookworm + Cat Mom
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POLL: Who’s here today?
A
Student at
College of the
Canyons
C
B
Faculty/staff at
College of the
Canyons
Somebody else

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

○ Campus workshops
○ Monthly short ﬁlm competition
○ Short ﬁlm production grants
○ Global community
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○ Twyla Brown-Barbosa, MA, LMFT
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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
a $25 Amazon gift card!)
● Virtual Mingle / Q&A

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
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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?
● I pray!
● Taking walks with my dos, stretching, breathing
● Hiking or walks
● Playing guitar
● Meditating, taking time to relax, reading, playing video games :)
● Pedicures
● RIDE MY BIKE
● walks/reading
● Self care for me nowadays is try to do a feel off face mask and
writing
● Give myself time to myself to read
● Mountain biking
● Short getaways
● Netﬂix
● Probably not the healthiest coping...but I eat candy
● I love to read my bible, then workout to bring my body and mnd
into alignment
● Photography!
● I like to relax in a quiet room or practice deep breathing

MENTAL HEALTH

Mental illness
Mental wellness
MENTAL HEALTH

Some movies and TV
shows that show
mental illness…
● The Good Doctor
● Perks of Being a Wallﬂower
● Writing on the Bathroom Walls
● Tony from The Sopranos
● House
● This Is Us - Randall
● What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
● Silver Linings Playbook
● Love & Other Drugs
● Criminal Minds
● JOKER🤡
● Temple Grandin
● Shameless
● Grey’s Anatomy
● One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
● Rescue Me

Characters with
mental illness are
portrayed as…
● Sociopathic
● Negatively or immoral
● Sick
● Troubled or problematic
● Odd
● Wild, unsettled, easily startled
● Manipulative
● Manic
● Odd :(
● Bipolar highs and lows
● Scary

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?
● A secret
● It isn’t really talked about
● Not very common in the household and not showing
symptoms of it growing up in a Philipino household
● “Nonexistent”
● infectious/contagious
● All people deserve respect in my community
● Mental health is frowned upon. It is taken seriously
however it does come off as shameful
● East Asian cultures have tended to forster the “tiger
parent” mentality that causes a lot of teens to be afraid to
open up about their mental health struggles
● A lot of silence no discussion about feelings of any kind,
even asking how your day was, or what happened today, or
how was school today...these things were not talked about

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

Gladys
By Jessica Jones and Diana DiBattista
AWI Winner, November 2013
CONTENT HEADS UP
depression

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?
● Like a burden and shameful
● Stigma feels like a combination of sadness and worry
● Less than… shame
● Ii have experienced drug abuse stigma, feels isolating
and brings up shame
● Hard to be able to open up because of the stigma. FEELS
heavy on my shoulders
● I feel hurtful and just overall depressed to where I need
to talk to my partner despite feeling shameful
● It feels like a weight on all sides
● Stiﬂing, fear of opening up
● Lonely, shame, misunderstood
● Helpless
● Self-encapsulating
● “Not normal”
● Alone
● Embarrassing

What makes it difficult
to reach out for help?
● Feeling judged
● The worry of how someone may respond
● The fear of admitting something wrong
● You are afraid of what might happen if you get help
● I was in denial for a long time
● Being outcast
● They will think I am weak
● Looking weak and helpless
● Finding the right person
● A little scary to open up about to someone we don’t know
● Judgement

BREATHING
EXERCISE

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

Visualizing Lies
By Justin Jeffers and Devonnie Black
AWI Winner, April 2019
CONTENT HEADS UP
depiction of depression and anxiety

What did you think?
How did you feel?
● So impactful
● Empowering
● I can relate
● “I’m ﬁne”
● The same way she felt in the ﬁlm is how i feel daily
● I can related
● Powerful. Sad that many don’t receive the services they need.
● I feel the same
● Empathetic
● It felt impactful to me and it made me feel a little sad
● I can relate too
● It was interesting to hear about imagining a different future
● I can relate
● Empathetic I could feel her pain

What are some practices
that help support
your wellness?
● Hug my kids and my fur kids
● Ride my bike
● I’m taking a drawing class this semester and I ﬁnd that that’s actually
relaxing I should do that more (even if it’s not for class)
● I can’t really think of anything but I hear that breathing exercises help
● Gardening
● Let myself feel my feelings, meditate, pray
● Mental affirmations
● Lying under a weighted blanket and listening to a song I love on repeat
● Go on dates
● Thankful mind
● Stay connected with others. Creative arts.
● I talk to my signiﬁcant other and pet my stuffed animals
● Sometimes I hug a stuffed animal
● Walking at the beach
● Walking the dog
● Long drives

BODY
SCAN

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

Sal Tran
By Kim Huynh
AWI Winner, March 2018
CONTENT HEADS UP
mentions of: sexual violence, suicide attempts, systemic oppression,
depression, anxiety, and PTSD

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?
● It made me feel inspired
● Overwhelming as I am a victim of what they discussed
● The is one of those films that makes me want to be helpful
● I felt sad for them
● So amazed and proud of such young people working to find
their way
● Sad that people go through that hopeful that there are doors
that can be open
● Let each of us be who are, no judgement, we are humans not
classified by any stereotype
● When I was in high schol I was once taught that there is no such
thing as normal in some ways

How can we support
ourselves and others?
● Talk about mental health
● Be there for someone and help to brighten their days
● Be open, share experiences
● Listen to the person and not be monotone instead provide
any type of support you can provide
● Check on our friends. Ask how friends are doing
● Even if they are not your friends check on your loved ones
● Listen non-judgmentally
● If you know your friend is in danger of hurting themselves
don’t keep bad secrets
● Just listen
● Check on the strong
● Do not judge people

PANEL
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for our panel!

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MEET THE PANEL
bit.ly/m4mho-cotc2
Janelle Liberato (she/her/hers)
Psychology Student at College of the Canyons and Social media coordinator for Active Minds
Julie Nguyen (she/her)
Student, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
California State University, Long Beach
Dr. Terri Goldstein (she/her)
Director, Academic Accommodation Center, College of the Canyons
Monica Dedhia, LCSW (she/her)
Program Manager III of Access, Crisis & Community Engagement, Child & Family Center
Amanda Hills, LCSW (she/her)
Clinical Director, Samuel Dixon Family Health Center, Inc

Please ﬁll out the evaluation!
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