What's This Workshop About?
Working for the welfare and rights of non-human animals can be emotionally exhausting. Especially in the last two years, since the pandemic began, there have been various turmoils. As activists and welfare workers, it has been a difficult time throughout, and we may be prone to the following issues:
- Helplessness due to activism being restricted to online mediums post the pandemic.
- Distress of not being able to feed and care for community animals due to the lockdowns.
- Anxiety and distress from constant exposure to visual content and knowledge of animal abuse and suffering.
- Feeling of loneliness and Invalidation from friends and family while on the journey of veganism.
Facilitator- Dr. Moumita Nandy
Dr. Moumita Nandy is an experienced certified psychologist, with an MSc in Clinical Psychology from Symbiosis, Pune.
Trained in CBT and REBT, Dr. Nandy has been a consultant clinical psychologist for 6 years. She is also trained as an expressive therapist, and strong believer and practitioner of Mindfulness and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). She has been associated with Cancer Institute, Chennai and Tata Medical Center, Kolkata for psychological morbidities in cancer care.
She is also associated with Mind Vriksha, a psychiatry clinic and has conducted many workshops on Anxiety and Depression with several corporate house like pantaloons, Sunlife etc. Along with that, she has also worked part time with an NGO named Reach Out For Life, Pune where she focused on Suicidal Awareness, Abuse and Addiction in all age groups.
She is an active member on the E-Cell panel of TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences). She is currently associated with government sponsored projects such as national helpline for transgender community and also with the Ministry of Social Empowerment.
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