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Warak Keruron: Healing the mothers of lost souls Premiere in London

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Another ‘Together for Mental Health’ short-film has been showing at several festivals and events and this time is the turn to Premiere it in London at the West London Film Festival on the 26th October 2024.

This was an unplanned film that we did without additional budget because it was a story too important to tell, hoping it will prompt reflection on the need to provide rituals and other collective forms of healing for mothers (and fathers) of unborn children or children who died shortly after birth.

We hope to see a few of you there and please tell your friends and followers!

Watch the trailer here

Film screenings with discussion in Japan

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During the Visiting Scholar Fellowship at The University of Kyoto, three film screenings with discussion have been organized:

  1. Breaking the Chains on the 21st February 2024 at 3pm at CSAES (Kyoto) For more info https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/20240221/
  2. ‘Harmoni: Healing together’ on the 22nd Feburary 3.30pm at the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka) For more info https://www.itsushikawase.com/anthro-film_lab/news.html
  3. A collection of 3 unreleased short-films from the ‘Together for Mental Health’ project on the 12th March 3pm at CSAES (Kyoto). More info will soon be posted on CSEAS events page.

These events have been organized with the support of CSEAS and in particular Dr Chika Yamada. We hope to see you some of you or your friends at these events, please share through your networks!

Two peer-reviewed articles based on visual research using ethnographic documentary

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In two days the Movie-ment experience will be taken to Ghana for two workshops: one on writing qualitative and visual research in Mental Health in Ghana and Indonesia (funded by the British Academy) and the other as part of the AHRC-funded Arts and Mental Health Advocacy network. So it is very timely that two articles based on the projects Together for Mental Health and Breaking the Chains have just been published (both as Open Access).

The first is based on the thematic analysis of the transcripts, visual observations and field-notes taken as part of the data collection in Ghana ‘We are all working toward one goal. We want people to become well’: A visual exploration of what promotes successful collaboration between community mental health workers and healers in Ghana

The second is a reflection on the making of the film Breaking the Chains, including ethical decisions and other challenges as well as benefits in using ethnographic documentary to research human rights and mental health ‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia 

This article accompanies two previous articles linked to this project:

Breaking the chains: ethnographic film-making in mental health

Free from pasung: A story of chaining and freedom in Indonesia told through painting, poetry and narration

We hope you will enjoy the readings and they will be useful to yours and your friends’ and colleagues’ arts-based and visual teaching, research and advocacy activities!

Can different providers work together?

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READ EXTRACTS FROM THE INTERVIEW BY THE CENTRE FOR CULTURE AND THE MIND – UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

“In this blog, I speak with Erminia Colucci, Professor of Visual Psychology and Cultural & Global Mental Health at Middlesex University, London. She is the director of ‘Nkabom: A little medicine, a little prayer’, one of the visual research outputs from the ‘Together for Mental Health’ project which is a Ghana, Indonesia and UK joint initiative exploring collaboration between mental health workers and healers to improve mental health care (see https://movie-ment.org/together4mh). We talked about the motivation behind the Nkabom film, her thoughts about global mental health and collaboration of various mental health care providers/healers and her perception about diagnosis“… GO TO FULL TEXT

Italian version premiere of Harmoni: Healing together

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The Italian version of ‘Harmoni: Healing together’ will be premièred in Rome on the 3rd December 2022 as part of Feel Mare: Cinema delle donne (Women cinema) organized by Eikon.

Free entry till full, please forward to others who might be able to attend and I hope some of you can make it!

For more info and to circulate the flyer:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7001274864682557440/

Together for Mental Health screenings in London

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Dear Movie-ment followers and supporters,

we have been silent with our blogs/emails not for absence of activity but at the opposite because we were so busy with dissemination of past visual projects outputs and creating videos for new projects!

We are very happy to announce that the Together for Mental Health films are being screened at many festivals worldwide, where they have also won prizes including as Best Documentary last month!

After screening in Copenhagen last week, ‘Nkabom: A little medicine, a little prayer’ will be finally shown LIVE in London on the12th October at Birbeck Cinema at 6-8.30pm and 18th at Wellcome Collection at 3-6pm with Together for Mental Health teams’members,please click the links to register for your free ticket and we hope to see you there!

ps For regular updates on this project you may also follow our @Together4MH social media pages, in addition to the Movie-ment pages.

CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED TILL 10th May 2021

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Dear Movie-ment friends,

while starting reviewing (and enjoying!) the submitted proposals for our Visual Psychology book and conference, we have re-opened the Call for Papers to include submissions representing all themes we envisaged (and beyond).

If you are a scholar and/or a practitioner/activist working in the cross-over of arts/visuals and Psychology (broadly speaking) consider submitting your proposal and please share with your networks. Submissions from all corners of the world are welcome!

For more information and the submission link click here!

Grazie and Happy Easter/Passover/Eid!

Mindful Arts & Creative Expression: Recovery week

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Thank you to all those of you who have joined our Mindful Arts & Creative Expression weekly activities so far!

This week we decided to take a break and offer the opportunity to those of you who have not been able to carry out all activities, to catch up. If you, however, have already completed all the weeks, we suggest to revisit one of the previous themes and see how you feel connecting with it now.

You might want to share your output/reflection in our Instagram gallery following these instructions. We would also like to invite you to give us feedback about what we have done so far, what did you find most useful? what would you like to be different? Is there any theme or modality you would like to propose? Perhaps some of you would also like to become our guest facilitator for one of next weeks.

You can use the comments area to provide your feedback/suggestions or use the Contact form in the website.

Thank you for being part of this group and till next week!

Erminia & Jude

 

 

Week 8 Emerging

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Welcome to Week 8 of Mindful Arts and Creative Expression, a reflective space where you can connect with yourself and express your feelings in a creative way.

Each week we will offer a theme or creative suggestion and will talk you through ways to feel centred and connected. We will be including a variety of art forms, for example drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry and rhythm/music. 

Remember, you do not need to have any previous experience or having taken part in any of the previous weekly activities so… turn on your audio, watch your video and start to mindfully create!

When you have finished, we invite you to share your responses as seeing others’ interpretations can create a sense of togetherness in these changing times. If you choose to do so, you can share your creative reflections with others on our INSTAGRAM @MindfulArtsCreativeExpression. Guidance on how to upload can be found HERE.

Enjoy the experience and we look forward to seeing the mindful creative outputs shared in our INSTAGRAM gallery!

See you next week, at the same time at the same place! To make this a reliable weekly routine and receive a reminder with a link to next session, please join the mailing list/follow this blog.

Be well and stay safe,

Jude & Erminia

If you are unable to access the audio, here is a brief summary:

Week 8– Emerging

  • With the easing of lockdown around the world, we invite you to reflect on what the word ‘emerging’ means to you.
  • Start by focusing on the word and see what thoughts and feelings start to surface. 
  • These could be in relation to lockdown, but also any other associations with the word ‘emerging’, whatever comes up for you. 
  • Check in with yourself how you’re feeling in the here and now and try to anchor some of these feelings in a creative way, using whatever materials you have available.
  • If it is helpful, set yourself a time limit, if not take the time and space you need to express yourself until you feel ready to stop.
  • Remember that it does not have to be finished for you to share it with others, all creative expression is equally valued.
  • If you would like to share your creative response with others, please share a picture of it on our Instagram gallery. Guidance on how to upload can be found HERE.
  • If you use photography, please remember to avoid pictures of identifiable people or places.

Week 7 Inside/Outside

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Welcome to Week 7 of Mindful Arts and Creative Expression, a reflective space where you can connect with yourself and express your feelings in a creative way.

Each week we will offer a theme or creative suggestion and will talk you through ways to feel centred and connected. We will be including a variety of art forms, for example drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry and rhythm/music. 

Remember, you do not need to have any previous experience or having taken part in any of the previous weekly activities so… turn on your audio, watch your video and start to mindfully create!

When you have finished, we invite you to share your responses as seeing others’ interpretations can create a sense of togetherness in these changing times. If you choose to do so, you can share your creative reflections with others on our INSTAGRAM @MindfulArtsCreativeExpression. Guidance on how to upload can be found HERE.

Enjoy the experience and we look forward to seeing the mindful creative outputs shared in our INSTAGRAM gallery!

See you next week, at the same time at the same place! To make this a reliable weekly routine and receive a reminder with a link to next session, please join the mailing list/follow this blog.

Be well and stay safe,

Jude & Erminia

If you are unable to access the audio, here is a brief summary:

Week 7 – Inside/Outside

  • This week we invite you to think about what the theme ‘inside/outside’ means to you.
  • Check in with yourself to see what comes up when you think about these words.
  • You may think literally about what it is like to be inside and the contrast with outside,
  • Or you may think about the emotional impact of internal and external, what is seen and what is not seen.
  • Take time to connect with your feelings in the here and now.
  • Allow yourself this time for your thoughts and feelings to settle and see what starts to emerge.
  • Notice what you are drawn to from the materials you have available.
  • If it is helpful, set yourself a time limit, if not take the time and space you need to express yourself until you feel ready to stop.
  • Remember that it does not have to be finished for you to share it with others, all creative expression is equally valued.
  • If you would like to share your creative response with others, please share a picture of it on our Instagram gallery. Guidance on how to upload can be found HERE.
  • If you use photography, please remember to avoid pictures of identifiable people or places.