As the school year comes to a close, we finished our last mental health club with a celebration! All the students were invited to reflect and eat pizza. We learned their favorite workshops, key takeaways, and what we could do next school year. We finished up with a celebratory presentation of all the pictures we had taken throughout the year.
Thank you to the PMSA students, Ms. Gart, and our community partners for joining us this school year. We are so excited for what’s to come next semester.
Hey neighbors! This week was our last session of workshops with PMSA’s mental health club. For our last workshop, we spent it outside with Proviso native, Dasia. Dasia led the students through a relaxing yoga flow after school. Through the series of poses to the ending rest position, the students had fun! We are excited to celebrate all our 23-24 workshops with the facilitators and students!
This week, we were back at PMSA’s mental health club with Sarah of Yo Soy Ella. You may recognize Sarah from our group therapy sessions as well as her Progress over Perfection workshop. In this session, Sarah focused on identity and how individualism matters. During these times, it may be hard to find your authentic self with the stress of family, peers, teachers, you name it! Sarah made sure to name that stress and attach the complications. The students were able to share freely what their identity frustrations look like. Overall, the students continue to make a safe space with one another.
Thanks, Sarah, for leading a necessary conversation!
We are continuing our workshops back at PMSA’s mental health club after spring break! The team went to PMSA last Wednesday to talk about limitless dreaming! Jasmine, ED of The Firehouse Dream, led the students through, what she calls, creative provision. This is a tactic used to use imagination to dream up possibilities that may feel impossible. Then creating an action plan, we ponder what it could look like to have this in our lives. Jasmine shared her experiences with the creative provision and how no dream is limited.
Thank you to the students who continuously participate with us, we appreciate you being so open to learning! In two weeks, we will be back at PMSA with Sarah from Yo Soy Ella, leading a talk on identity frustrations and expectations. See us in Ms. Garts classroom, room 213.
This week, we were back at PMSA again! We have been loving the relationships we built with PMSA’s mental health club. The students are supportive and receptive to the workshops we bring. For this week, Clarybelle of A Beautiful Project led the students through team-building exercises. First, the students started with a check-in and to meet Clarybelle. Then they started playing puzzling games that required teamwork to accomplish. They walked around the classrooms timing their steps to work with others and played hand games with one another. One of the final activities was to write negative or intrusive thoughts the students had about themselves. They would build up a tower with these cups and knock it down after. They finished with some positive thoughts about themselves and one another.
Thank you Clarybelle for leading such an engaging workshop! We will be back at PMSA for a storytelling workshop led by Jasmine, on February 21st. See you soon!
