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Reframe The Mental Health Summit Puts A Spotlight On Issues We Are Facing

A spotlight was shone on the issues that our generation is facing whether it is mental health and fitness and looking at mindfulness in more holistic ways was the focus of the day-long Mental Health Summit, Reframe.

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11 Oct 2021 00:00 IST

Updated On 11 Oct 2021 09:34 IST

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Reframe - the mental health summit: The conversation around mental health in India has never been urgent, even as we continue to bear the emotional brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even in the post-COVID world, we need to ensure that mental wellbeing is prioritised across sections of society including workplaces. So what needs to change?

Over the years, many have suffered in silence as speaking about mental health issues was and continue to be taboo. However, now joining the mental health revolution in India, SheThePeople launched its first-ever Mental Health Summit, which aims to question our stigmatised gaze towards mental health problems and to normalises not being okay.

Are we part of the problem? How can we find solutions to them? A spotlight was shone on the issues that our generation is facing whether it is mental health and fitness and looking at mindfulness in more holistic ways was the focus of the day-long Mental Health Summit, Reframe. The event was powered by Colors.

Reframe The Mental Health Summit

The day opened with a conversation with Social Psychologist & Mental Health Therapist, Anna Chandy who talked to SheThePeople founder Shaili Chopra about how we can find strength from within. Chandy suffered abuse as a young girl. She says she has been through her own dark holes becoming a therapist.

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In a conversation with Shaili Chopra founder SheThePeople, George Anderson, Speaker, coach & trainer on wellbeing and high performance discussed how can one link fitness to mental health - where do the body and mind connect. And just how does one make incremental changes to the routine. He said, "Food fitness and mind are deeply connected. We should make incremental effort in finding ourselves."

Raj Nayak, founder - happyness.me spoke about shaping a new work culture that fosters happiness at its core and the new thinking organisations need to adopt post the pandemic. He said, "Post pandemic organisations need to understand their employee and know how they feel." He was in conversation with nutritionist Pooja Makhija talking about emotional quotient and wellbeing at the workplace. How does one create a happier work culture? Do people join organisations for growth, respect or money? What freedoms do employees deserve? These are some of the questions they answered.

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Gayatri Jayaraman, Anitya: How to Make the Most of Change and Transform Your Life, moderated a session on the challenges of change in business and entrepreneurship, what needs to change for good professional mental health. Niranjan Aiyangar, award winning lyricist, filmmaker and Archanna Das head, ASCENT foundation, Nawaz Modi Singhania Fitness & Lifestyle Icon and Smita Barooah where in conversation with her. Talking about Change Challenge filmmaker Niranjan Iyengar said, "We are seeing two kinds of change. One is the change thrust upon us and the one that comes from within." Smita Barooah counselling psychologist and addictions specialist therapist spoke on our cultural resistance or adaptability to change and where we get stuck.

SheThePeople Idea's Editor Yamini Pustake Bhalerao moderated a session on Mental Health and Married Women. She was in conversation with Pallavi Barnwal, Vandana Kohli and Rhea Raghav Dubey. Dubey said, "Women get so caught up in the roles that they play - am a mother, am a wife, am a mami, am a chachi. Our culture has so many prescribed roles that identity (of women) does get lost, along with individual desire and individual ambition."

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