Counselling Corner Newsletter – October 2024
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10 October 2024 – World Mental Health day
Worldwide, 10 October is celebrated as World Mental Health Day – a time to give attention to mental health. This year the theme is “Mental Health at Work”. It’s quite new idea in Myanmar for companies to take care of the mental well-being of their staff, yet it makes sense: as an employer you want to make sure your staff is fully concentrated at work!
It’s very normal for staff to have extreme emotions at the moment and bottling up all these emotions is not healthy. The best way to release emotions is talking about them and sharing your emotions with others.
Talks about mental health in Myanmar language
Our counsellors have been discussing different mental health topics for years and all these are free and available on our podcast, on Facebook and in our YouTube video library. Share these with your staff and take 3 minutes at the beginning of your next meeting to ask how everybody is feeling.
Follow us on https://www.youtube.com/@CounsellingCorner/podcasts or www.facebook.com/counsellingcornermyanmar/
What can you do as an employer to take care of your staff?
Over the last years, Counselling Corner has been helping thousands of employees ranging from garment factory workers to management teams. We have been holding webinars, did a lot of clay and art workshops and provided individual counselling sessions.
What are you going to do for your staff? World mental Health Day is a good moment to start! Call our sales team to discuss what you can do for your staff based on your available budget.
Some examples of things to organise for your staff:
- Organise a webinar about using a reflection journal
- Read books on mental health
- Play memory game with cards about emotions and let people describe each emotion
- Start EAP (Employee Assistance Program) for your staff
- Hang a poster in your canteen with tips to stay mentally strong
World Mental Health Day celebrations
Counselling Corner is very glad to see plenty of organisations in Myanmar organising activities to celebrate mental health day. Organisations as Doh Eain and Goethe Institute are organising all kind of fun and educational activities.
Counselling Corner is celebrating World Mental Health Day this year on 20 October together with professionals from other mental health organisations. Come and join us!
Free workshops and individual counselling for communities who need it most – Seit Mate Swe program
Through our Seit Mate Swe program we have been training people to become a counsellor and we continue to supervise and support these counsellors while working in their community. Every month hundreds of people start talking about their emotions through an online emotional workshop or an in-person clay workshop. If wanted, individual people can continue to get free individual counselling sessions. Currently we have possibility to organise in-person workshops in and around Yangon, Mandalay as well as Southern Shan State or online nationwide.
Do you know a group of 12-20 people who are interested to start taking care about their mental health but can’t afford it? Call Ma Kyawt from our Seit Mate Swe program to organise a free workshop: 09-881063030.
Read the Myanmar version of this newsletter on our website
Please do share / like and contact us if you have any questions or suggestions on the above or want to know more about our services. We want to make it easier for people to talk about mental well-being and we need help from all organizations in Myanmar to discuss mental well-being openly with your team and work on improving it.
For inquiries, please contact us:
Email: contact@counsellingcornermyanmar.com
Phone: 09 785 074 173, 09 784 509 916