University of california davis m4 mho - 4.14.21 - presentation (1)

#Poetry4MentalHealth
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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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A
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UC Davis
C
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UC Davis
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POLL: Where in the
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○ Campus workshops
○ Monthly short ﬁlm competition
○ Short ﬁlm production grants
○ Global community
BROUGHT TO YOU BY
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○ Kristin Sky, LCSW
Owner of Mental Health House Call
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○ Jane Teixeira, LMFT
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Couples Resource Collective
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Associate Professional Clinical Counselor
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Davis Affordable Professional Counseling
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○ Toni Rey, LMFT
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○ Eric Taggart, 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

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3 WAYS TO ENGAGE
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3 WAYS TO ENGAGE
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IN JUST A FEW WORDS...
What has self-care been
looking like for you these days?
● Buying and growing plants!
● Going on LONG walks
● Staying creative - making art
● Being with my pets
● Video games and books
● Yoga, meditation
● Podcasts and epsom salt baths!
● Journaling :)
● Comics
● Getting away from the screen and rereading
books from my childhood :)
● Working out or meditating
● Painting with friends
● Discovering new hobbies!!
● Singing
● Walking my puppy
● Animal crossing with friends :)
● Baking cookies for people

MENTAL HEALTH

Mental illness
Mental wellness
MENTAL HEALTH

Some movies and TV shows
that show mental illness…
● Boy Interrupted
● Monk
● The Joker
● Perks of Being a Wallﬂower
● Manhunt
● Beautiful Mind
● The Good Doctor
● Criminal Minds
● Homeland
● Silver Linings Playbooks
● Atypical
● Donnie Darko
● Call the Midwife
● One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
● Sesame Street
● Winnie the Pooh

Characters with mental illness
are portrayed as…
● Antisocial
● Odd
● Scary
● Different
● Different
● Abnormal
● As different or odd
● Usually seen as the “weak” ones of the group
● Outsider
● Their super power
● Scary
● “Crazy”
● Unstable
● Hard to interact wiith
● Lonely
● Artistic
● Socially awkward
● Not accepted
● Genius

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?
● Shame
● Believe it’s due to sin
● “It gets better”
● That prayer can take it away
● In the Philippines, mental health is seen as taboo or only for people who
are crazy
● Brokenness
● Mental illness is often yoked with addiction
● “It’s all in your head”
● Weak minded
● Given up - shunned
● Not talked about at all, ignored
● Hidden
● Secret
● It would ruin my family’s reputation
● Misunderstood/taboo
● Not strong enough to deal with their own problems
● Disgraced

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

Tekona
By Tomás Karmelo Amaya and Shalene Joseph
Voices With Impact 2019
Content heads up:
racism, toxic masculinity, sexism

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?
● Belittled
● Invalidated
● Conﬁnement
● Lonely
● Isolating
● Unheard, unseen, misunderstood
● Unable to belong
● Not taken serioiusly
● Devalued
● Erased
● Dehumanized
● Sad

What makes it difficult
to reach out for help?
● Funds
● No one will understand me. Afraid to reach out. Leave my safe space
● Frozen
● Fear of judgement by others
● Not knowing where to start
● Seems useless
● Cultural barriers
● Afraid to be vulnerable
● No energy to find help
● Judgement from family
● Feeling like your family might not believe in mental health resources
● Hard to find mental health professionals who can understand the
effects of generational trauma and racism on mental wellbeing
● The mental health system is confusing, let alone to anyone that
doesn’t know about health insurance
● Family may minimize your issues for fear of being blamed
● Generational stigma
● Too expensive/difficult to deal with health insurance
● Providers ready to prescribe meds without getting to know patient
● Where to begin? What is the “right” first call?

BREATHING
EXERCISE

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

Beyond Words
By Sharon Nyarko
AWI Winner, May 2017
CONTENT HEADS UP
depression, suicidal ideation,
image implying suicide by hanging

What did you think?
How did you feel?
● My heart hurt for him
● Injustice
● Sadness
● Judgement
● How lonely depression is
● Frustration
● People want to ﬁx it so they don’t have to
experience a friends depression
● Self criticism
● I liked the inclusion of the suicide hotline
● Stigma of self medicating /medication
● Tears externalize the sadness and pain
● The silent scream said so much in such a short
moment
● Common responses about mental illness was
powerful

What are some practices that
help support your wellness?
● Reaching out
● Socializing
● Listen to music
● Meditate
● Grounding/earthing
● Music !
● Journaling/poetry
● Creative endeavors
● Needle felting
● Take drives
● Crafting
● Holding my pet
● Spending time in nature
● Gardening
● Visiting elders
● Watching sports
● Talking to loved ones
● Watching my favorite movie
● Going outside
● Cooking

BODY
SCAN

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

Crooked Beauty
By Ken Paul Rosenthal
AWI Winner, June 2012
CONTENT HEADS UP
Discussion of stigma, medication management

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?
● You can see beauty everywhere
● The power of using rhetoric to tell stigmatized stories is so
powerful
● It felt very validating to hear someone detail their experience
with systemic oppression and its impact on their mental health
● I heard the heaviness as the words were spoken
● That really hit close to home
● Bipolar illness
● It was powerful with robust language
● The line “the system wasn’t designed for a spirit like mine”
● Brought awareness that there’s many layersr to mental
health/illness, considering medication is just one layer
● Brilliant ﬁlm, it captures the reality of society trying to remake
hooghly sensitive people fake being OK with injustice, cruelty
and violence

How can we support
ourselves and others?
● Being generous
● Self compassion to better hold space and compassion for
others
● Validating our own and other people’s struggles… even if we
dont understand them
● Listen and care for others
● Advocating and sharing your knowledge with someone that
mgiht need it
● Show kindness
● My former supervisor once wrote a quote on a meeting
agenda “Be kind, everyone you meet is going through a
battle you know nothing about”
● Acts of service, small acts of kindness, calling and checking
up on old friends
● Ask curious questions to learn more/better understand the
person and where they are at
● Let them know there is no shame in asking for help
● Be open to be wrong

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MEET THE PANEL
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Kayla Heinemann (she/her)
2nd Year Psychology Student - UC Davis
Astha Soni (she/her/hers)
First-year Psychology Major/pre-med student at UC Davis
Jon De Paul Dunbar, LCSW (he/him)
CAN Community Counselor, Student Health and Counseling Services - UC Davis
Skye Innerarity (she/her)
LMFT #104388 - Acacia Counseling and Wellness

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