Component Evaluation: Deconstructing Madness Timing: 40 – 50 minutes Mode: In-class; Online Although it is extremely important to challenge depictions and false representations found within film and other media, we should not discount the benefits of fiction and non-fiction narratives to participate in practices of bearing witness and truth-telling needed to combat stigma and produce …
Component Evaluation: Community Grant Proposal Time: 120 minutes; flexible Mode: In class; Online Community art collaborations are supported by a variety of institutions that help fund different projects. This funding is a crucial part of ensuring the larger success of a project. Funding allows organizers to be paid, to seek out needed materials, and the …
Component Evaluation: Imagining Alternatives Time: 30 minutes Mode: In class; Online Our current mental health system does not support a variety of care and wellbeing needs. Often people are only encouraged to seek out talk therapy. With this in mind, and with the artists call to diversifying how we practice care and wellbeing, either facilitate …
Component Evaluation: Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppression Workshops Time: 45-60 minutes Mode: In class; Online The artist shared their belief that mental health professionals should be participating in anti-oppressive and anti-racist workshops on an annual basis at the bare minimum. Yet, these workshops tend to be offered as one-offs through employers, or individuals have to seek out …
Component Exploration – the “days” Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online River is a queer trans youth who identifies as white and racialized. Their component presented is the art piece “days.” The second component is a set focus group and interview excerpts which include River’s explanation of how they created the piece, and their thoughts …
Component Evaluation: Unorthodox Alliances Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online The early MPA (Mental Patients Association) has a well-deserved reputation for radicalism, but in this exhibit scholars Geertje Boschma, Megan Davies, and Marina Morrow explore how MPA worked simultaneously alongside and in opposition to mainstream mental health. This process interrupted existing power relationships and the …
Component Evaluation: 1 Play Timing: 15 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Select one of the plays prepared by Branwen Willow and Cat Omura and have students read the parts in a large discussion group. Then use the corresponding set of questions, which were carefully developed by these community experts, to generate discussion about the play. Online, …
Component Evaluation: 3 Plays Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Have students read and act out their play scripts. Online, students can listen to the audio recordings of the plays prepared by Branwen Willow and Cat Omura. Use the questions below, which were carefully developed by these community experts, to generate class discussion about the …
Component Evaluation: Group Think Tank Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Ask your students to download, read and reflect on Margo’s recovery story and collectively make a list of the different tools that Margo found helpful. Next, have your students brainstorm other practices that would be helpful in the process of recovery and consider how …
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