College of the Sequoias - M4MH - - Presentation.pdf

M4MH - SV

2. meet your facilitator
Natalie Cook (she/her)

●Poet
●Filmmaker
●Theater-maker

3. brought to you by…

●Campus workshops

●Short film competitions

●Short film production grants

●Global community

4. 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 $25!)
●Mingle / Q&A

5. heads up
●Mental health is personal – YOU are the
expert on your own experience
●This is a public, shared space
●Some photos will be taken during the
panel - please let us know if you are not
comfortable with that
●Please take care of yourself and others
however you need, including asking for
help

6. In Just a Few Words …
What has self-care been
looking like for you these days?

●Traveling to the mountains, being in
nature, feeding the ducks
●Walks outdoors, sunlight, fresh air
●Singing and music
●Gardening

7. MENTAL HEALTH

8. MENTAL HEALTH
Mental illness
Mental wellness

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

10. Sexual Violence Survivor


●Personal definition
●Has been through a potentially traumatic
experience, or set of experiences, involving sexual
or intimate acts
●Experience was against their wishes
●and/or crossed a boundary that they had set
●and/or left them feeling violated, used, scared,
unsafe or hurt

11. CONTENT HEADS UP
impacts and visual depiction of sexual assault, alcohol use
Believe Me
by Kristin Kinsey
AWI Winner, Aug 2019

12. IN PAIRS...
What did you think?
How did you feel?

13. SHARE WITH US:
What did you think?
How did you feel?
●Limited resources for these issues, and
Google search didn’t help
●The protagonist would not have brought
up the assault to her father
●Hearing parents or the TV saying
inappropriate things

14. How might stigma impact
survivors of sexual violence?


●Victim blaming affecting your healing
process, and shifting that process now
●The power of being able to control your
own narrative, and how other people can
shift it

15. Breathing
Exercise

16. Self Reflection
How was this breathing
exercise for you?

17. Touch Me, Don’t Touch Me
by Lucie Rachel
AWI Winner, Oct 2018
CONTENT HEADS UP
discussion of sexual violence

18. IN PAIRS...
What did you think?
How did you feel?

19. SHARE WITH US:
What did you think?
How did you feel?

●He seemed ashamed but passionate.
Dancing helps convey the message.
●Didn’t understand the use of dance in the
film.
●Easier to experience this film without some of
the direct triggers in the first film.

20. What makes it difficult
to reach out for help?
●When SV happens when you’re young, you sometimes don’t
know what to do. If there was a better road map for navigating
this issue, they could have felt more comfortable talking to
parents, police, finding other help, etc. Getting this info to
youth is critical.
●Not knowing what’s going to happen after you share, what
justice looks like, and if someone is ready to give what’s needed
for that. More universal advice and processes.
●Feeling isolated (not that you’re pushing people away, but how
others may step out when you need support), and navigating
healing afterwards alone.
●It’s often retraumatizing to ask for help, pursue justice, heal,
etc. There isn’t enough support for people after this process
begins.
●Reporting doesn’t always lead to action.
●The thought about “the next time” and all that comes with it
●When children and family are involved.
●Retaliation, or abusive tactics being used against you
●Shifting guilt back onto the survivors. It makes it hard to tell
your truth, when others don’t know how to receive/see it.
●In DV situations, sometimes you want to protect or be loyal to
the “aggressor”
●Assuming that youth know what to do, or what these issues are,
and the bystander effect
●Becoming used to being violated and isolated, and navigating
these issues alone.
●When loved ones don’t believe you, and having to gaslight
yourself outside of your own truth

21. Body Scan

22. Self Reflection
How was this body scan
for you?

23. CONTENT HEADS UP
discussion of trauma and childhood sexual assault

Little Elizabeth
by Elizabeth Ayiku
AWI Winner, Feb 2018

24. What are your impressions?

25. How can we support
ourselves and others?
●Knowing when people don’t need
advice, and just need to be listened to.
●Listening to yourself (esp. The inner
child in you), remembering what you
need/needed, and giving that gift to
someone else.
●Asking what someone needs, rather
than assuming/projecting yourself.
●Hearing others express themselves can
help you do the same for yourself, and
showing up for others.
●To forgive yourself, no matter the
situation.

26. panel
Round of applause for our panel!

27. meet the panel
Angie Hoyos (she/her)
Student Panelist

Hailey Caine (she/her)
Student Panelist

Chris Ramirez (he/him)
LMFT, LPCC, Mental Health Counselor, College of the
Sequoias

Brenda Salazar (she/her)
Program Manager, Family Services

28. Ask a question or share a thought!
Panel Q&A

29. Please fill out the survey!
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.

https://bit.ly/m4mh-sv-
college-of-the-sequoias
-survey

@artwithimpact
[email protected]
www.voiceswithimpact.com

30. Stay in touch!
Don’t forget to sign
in if you haven’t!

31. Your voice counts.
You can enter for a chance to win a $25 gift!
Please fill out our evaluation form.

bit.ly/aaaa