Categorised by "capacity-building"

Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP) Residential Program - Kerala State, Oct-Nov 2023

Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI) started the Queer-Affirmative Counselling Practice Course in Jan...Read More

Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP) In-Person Course Bangalore, May 2023

Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI) started the Queer-Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP) Course...Read More

QACP in-person courses are back in 2023!

Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI) started QACP in January 2019 with 22 participants and within a y...Read More

6-Day Course on Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice

QACP has received an overwhelming response in the last two years and 350+ MHPs have been trained ...Read More

Creating a Culture of Embodied Activism for Mental Health Professionals

Exploring how we can unlock the wisdom of our bodies to guide and sustain us in bringing advocacy...Read More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | APRIL- JUNE, 2021

We're a grant-making and advocacy agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particu...Read More

6-Day Course on Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice

QACP has received an overwhelming response in the last two years and 200+ MHPs have been trained ...Read More

Creating innovative programs to strengthen the MH ecosystem

Through the year, we launched initiatives targeting specific groups such as youth, entrepreneurs,...Read More

Guiding and growing MHI’s path to the future

In February 2020, we got together with all our team members and advisory board members to discuss...Read More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | OCT- DEC, 2020

We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

6- day Certificate Course on Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP) Online

QACP has received an overwhelming response in the last two years and 150 MHPs have been trained a...Read More

Resilient Practices for Mental Health in Rural and Urban Uttarakhand

Building on community resources in crisis and disaster This article outlines key practices for s...Read More

‘I Get You’

Strengthening Peer Counseling within the Queer CommunityRead More

Clinical Legacies and Counter-Narratives

The fields of knowledge associated with mental health have come under scrutiny for human rights ...Read More

Creating Safe Spaces within Legal Settings

A model for individual, couple and familial counseling for matrimonial litigationRead More

Communities of Practice and Women’s Mental Health

Looking beyond geographically defined community as supportsRead More

Teachers as Agents of Change

Tealeaf: Mansik Swastha teachers renegotiate traditional roles and relationships as they become d...Read More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE  |  JULY - SEPT, 2020

We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

Responding to COVID as a Mental Health Funding Organization

Coronavirus is not just a public health issue but also an issue of livelihoods, food, security, ...Read More

We fund initiatives that are user-centered, and employ a human rights-based approach

At the onset we knew that MHI would employ an intersectional and intersectoral approach to funding.Read More

How our approach has shaped the initiatives that we’ve invested in this year (2019-2020)

At MHI we believe in a psychosocial approach to mental health – that there are critical social de...Read More

Collaborating with others to bridge the mental health care gap

If we want to influence social change, we must work in tandem with others. At MHI, we support and...Read More

Challenging existing pathological representations of LGBTQIA+ lives & countering historical violence & discrimination, in mental health practice

The edifice of mental health and psychiatry in India has been responsible for pathologizing non-n...Read More

Working with the Government to bolster mental health care services

MHI signs an MoU for a Technical Support Unit that will support the Government of Bihar in streng...Read More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | OCT - DEC, 2019

We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice, Bombay

6 Day Course on Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP)Read More

The Need for a Rights-Based Lens in Education

An enquiry into challenging existing pathological representations of LGBTQIA+ lives, and systemic...Read More

The Atmiyata Story

Centering community as a resourceRead More

Safeguarding Client and Counselor

Ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy in India. Exploring the foundations for ethical practice.Read More

Interrogating the Cut + Paste of ‘Recovery’

This article challenges received wisdom on existing concepts of ‘recovery’ from mental suffering ...Read More

ReFrame: Editor's Note

An Editor's Note on ReFrame, a journal by the Mariwala Health Initiative that challenges existing...Read More

Pathways to Mental Health

Challenging the existing discourse around the ‘treatment gap’ that invisibilises the psycho-socia...Read More

Queering Mental Health Practice

QACP interrogates and counters dominant approaches to sexuality in the mental health sector. It i...Read More

Does every Citizen have the Right to Vote?

On voting as an issue of development, social justice, and human rights—an instrument by which we ...Read More

Peer Support Practice

Peer support is based on support due to similar lived experiences. MHI recently launched a module...Read More

Fostering Resilience in the Wake of Disasters

Despite evidence of the impact that disasters have on mental health, disaster response approaches...Read More

Mental Health Care Reaches Remote Villages in Yamuna Valley

MHI partner Burans recently celebrated the launch of yet another community mental health program ...Read More

MHI's Quarterly Newsletter

Read about our latest partners, innovative projects we've been funding and upcoming events throug...Read More

Professional Solidarity : What Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice Means To Me As A Mental Health Practitioner

I’m a 25-year-old therapist with a background in Clinical Psychology. I have had roughly about 3 ...Read More

Arts Based Therapy Course By Bapu Trust: Healing Through Art Forms

“Art is the meeting ground of the world inside and the world outside.” Elinor UlmanRead More