Updates
Developing a Healthy Relationship with Emotions
This Aao Suno session with Dr. Humair Yusuf will explore questions like: what purpose do our emotions serve? How do they interact with reason and logic? How do they work together and how do they work against each other? How can we develop a healthy relationship with our emotions?
We look forward to seeing you at T2F.
About the facilitator: Dr. Humair Yusuf is a counselling psychologist and psychotherapist based in Karachi who works with individuals, couples and families. As a visiting faculty member at the Department of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts at IBA he has taught classes that explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, age, disability and religion in mental health and wellbeing, His research focuses on cultural factors underlying explanatory models and representations of distress. He is involved with a number of mental health initiatives throughout Pakistan.
TO SABEEN, WITH LOVE
We’re gathering at T2F on Wednesday, April 24th, 2024, to celebrate Sabeen Mahmud’s life and legacy.
It’s going to be a community affair, so let’s get together to clean up the neighbourhood, do some planting, drink some chai, feed each other, watch artists create tributes to Sabeen, play and listen to some music, and enjoy some evening programming.
TIMINGS
4:00-6:00 PM (all activities happening simultaneously):
Aik Dil Phaink Larki — Artists painting tributes to Sabeen. If you play an instrument, please provide our artists with some light musical accompaniment.
Chai & Potluck — Chai at T2F. Please bring some dry finger food, and paper plates for about two people. Let’s feed our friends while keeping the space clean.
Clean-up & Planting — Cleaning up the area around T2F and planting some new vegetation.
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6:00-7:30 PM:
We’ll be closed to set up for the evening programme.
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7:30-9:30 PM:
Evening Programme — Music, reading, open mic, and reflections.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
❤️
SMF + T2F
Ways of Journaling / Ways of Seeing
About the event: An Aao Suno session with Sadia Khatri exploring our inner life through the journal. We will explore the ways the journal can be a creative site for process and play; and a cathartic space to map our emotions. We will learn about ways we can build a journaling practice (regular or irregular!), to ground our bodies and minds. We will think about the journal as a mirror or container to reflect/hold our changing perception about the world and ourselves.
Please register for the event, and bring writing materials with you. There are only 20 spots available. Link to registration form.
We look forward to seeing you at T2F.
About the facilitator: Sadia Khatri is a writer, teacher, and filmmaker. She writes fiction and nonfiction, often about cities, dreams, gender, and faith. She is interested in pedagogical models outside of institutions, and teaches individually and collaboratively. Sadia is archiving and filming Sufi and Bhakti poetry in Sindh with Amrit Pyala.
Managing Anger and Grief
In this interactive session we will learn from the experts about anger and grief. We will mainly focus on personal experiences of anger and grief, their causes, manifestation, impact, consequences and treatments.
We look forward to seeing you @thesecondfloor.
About the speaker:
Dr. Rizwan Ali (MD, DFAPA), is currently working as a Medical Director at Pinnacle Treatment Services in Virginia. He has served as Associate Professor at Edward Via, Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, the University of Virginia and Virginia-Tech Carilion School of Medicine for almost 25 years. He was actively teaching psychotherapy to the senior residents at the psychiatry training program at VTC School of Medicine and has co-authored books titled, ‘Becoming a Psychotherapist’ and ‘Anger Management’, both available on Amazon. He is a poet and has translated poetry of others as well. He has a keen interest in Indian Classical Music and is running an active karaoke group in Virginia for the last 25 years.
Dr. Ali is the Distinguished Fellow of American Psychiatric Association and has served at the district branch – Psychiatric Society of Virginia (PSV) – on different positions including the Chair of Public Psychiatry, Chair of the Membership Committee, Secretary, Treasurer and then as the President in 2013-2014. Now he serves on the Board of Directors as the Past-President current President of the Psychiatric Foundation of Virginia. He is a visiting faculty at Dow University, Jinnah Post Graduate Medical center and Agha Khan University for several years.
About the host:
Dr. Jawed Akbar Dars (FCPS, CHPE), is working as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at National Institute of Child Health, Jinnah Sindh Medical University. He has been associated with the university for teaching, training and research beside patients' care for almost 8 years now.
He has been associated with Department of Psychiatry, Agha Khan University hospital as Non-Full time faculty.
At present he is serving as Provincial Secretary of Pakistan Psychiatric Society. For the last 8 years he has been running a weekly TelePsych-clinic for under served, district Umerkot.
Why Bother Meditating? with Rahma Muhammad Mian
What is meditation, and why is it suddenly being prescribed for various mental health issues? Should everyone meditate? Who should not meditate? What about people too busy to meditate?
This interactive session with Rahma Muhammad Mian will focus on critical questions about meditation and its purported effects.
Please register for the event, and bring your photo ID with you for entry into the campus.
Managing Stress and Anxiety
An interactive stress management session tailored for young adults seeking balance in the midst of life's challenges.
Fatima Haider is a Humanistic Integrative Mental Health Counsellor.
Please register for the event here, and bring your photo ID with you for entry into the campus.
Contemporary Challenges in Parenting with Natasha Jafri
This session will focus on parenting for mental health in today’s fast-paced and technologically-focused society.
Natasha Jafri is a counsellor, child protection social worker and teacher currently working in the UK.
Please be punctual and bring your photo ID for entry into the campus.
You can view past events here.