2. Meet your facilitators
Cary McQueen
(she/her)
● Founder and Executive
Director of Art With Impact
● Mental wellness enthusiast
● Mama, Partner, Friend,
Daughter, Sister
Jules Plumadore
(he/they)
● AWI Workshop Specialist
● Mental health advocate
and facilitator
● Lives in Oakland with
partner and a little dog
named Arvo
3. Brought to you by…
● Campus workshops
● Short film production grants
4. Here’s the plan
1. Define our terms
2. Practice expression through imagery
3. Practice expression through words
4. Panel
5. Evaluation
5. Heads up
● 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 however you
need, including asking for help!
6. How are you doing today?
Horrible
So pumped it’s not even funny
7. Some movies and TV shows that
show mental illness…
● Shameless
● CSI
● Joker
● The Mustang
● 911
● Beautiful Mind
● What Dreams May Become
● This is Us
8. Characters with mental illness are
portrayed as…
● Exaggerated
● Impulsive
● Aggressive
● Flustered
● Don’t have things together
● “Crazy”
● Abnormal
● Violent
● Irrational
9. What is stigma?
A judgment or stereotype that is:
● Always negative
● Always untrue
● Can be internalized
10. Mind Matters
By Seyi Akinlade and Josef Adamu
AWI Winner, November 2019
CONTENT HEADS UP
Depression, stigma, alcohol use
12. Share with us:
What did you think? How did you feel?
● Feeling moved / relating to it. It’s okay to talk but who do you talk?
● When religion is involved, it’s not always the answer
● When you’re talking - others might not know how to react to what
you’re talking about
● Demonstrates the irritability as the outside interpretation of how he’s
feeling
13. What makes it difficult to reach out for help?
● Who is safe?
● Other people’s “pat” answers
● Body language
● Rejection
● Mindset of “I did it, you can do it too”
● Validation
● Coming to terms that it is a mental illness or mental health issue not
just a season or something that will pass
● Not sure people will understand that this is real to you, whatever
you’re experiencing
● Suspicion
16. We all have a Wise Mind
Wise Mind Thinking Mind
Feeling Mind
17. ● We share a purpose to fight for what’s right.
● What’s right is not always obvious.
● Cultivating our “wise mind” can bring what’s
right into focus.
Our Premise for Today
18. Today’s Objective
Practice two tools of expression that can help us identify
what our wise mind is telling us right now.
When there are no words When there are too many words
20. Photo Exercise - Step 1
Take a lot of different pictures
in our immediate area.
Try to find images that reflect
YOU, right now.
Try putting the camera (phone)
● Really close
● Really high
● Really low
Try making images that are:
● Abstract (like light)
● Emotional (blurry? colorful?)
Ideas
21. Photo Exercise - Step 2
A) B)
1. Select the image that best
reflects where you are in
your mind, today.
2. Write in your packet what
connects you with that
picture.
3. Share ONE photo to our
Google Album by
scanning the QR code to
the right and choosing
“select photos”
23. How did you feel?
What did you think?
● Proud that I could self assess in only five minutes, be mindful
● Scary, knowing someone’s gonna see
● Self doubt
● Felt too personal
● Overwhelming from overthinking it
● Perfection - I want it right. Don’t want to be judged.
● Connected with the photos - reflects my feelings today, too
25. Writing Exercise: Immerse, Explore, Express
As a group, we will immerse ourselves in a short film
from our OLIVE Film Collection.
Together, we will explore the themes brought up in
the film through discussion.
Individually, we will express our thoughts and
feelings through writing exercises to create poetry as
a response.
38. Meet the panel
Justin Manipon
West Hills College Student
Sally Richards
West Hills College Student
Maria Gonzalez
Associate Dean of Categorical Programs
Gabby Godinho
Executive Program Director, Path to Hope
39. Q&A and Reflections
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.
40. Please fill out our survey!
bit.ly/west-hills-survey
Your feedback on today’s experience is so valuable to us and to others -
please help us improve and better serve other student veterans.
As our thanks for completing the survey, you’ll have the option to enter a
prize draw for $25 and receive a free 3-month subscription to the Ten
Percent Happier mindfulness app.
41. Stay in touch!
We’d love to have you join our community
for updates and information.
Website: artwithimpact.org
Cary: cary@artwithimpact.org
Jules: julesp@artwithimpact.org
