Categorised by "lived-experiences"

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

Songs of the Forest

Exploring Climate Justice through the Lens of Global Economy, Development and CapitalismRead More

Demystifying Suicide Prevention

A special series in association with Sanity by Tanmoy dedicated to suicide prevention, which will...Read More

Freeing Today’s Class(room) from Caste

Looking at how caste hierarchies and norms in educational spaces affect mental health knowledge p...Read More

‘Chinta, Tension, Bhoi’: Expressions of distress in fishing communities

In writing this, I kept going back to the image of a dinner table at a local restaurant in a smal...Read More

The “Othering” of the Queer Mental Health Professional

Queer dystopias in mental health workplacesRead More

Addressing Inequalities: Structural Competency and Collective Action in Mental Health

Dismantling systems of powerRead 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

Creating innovative programs to strengthen the MH ecosystem

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

Exercising accountability as a funder

As a funding agency, MHI had to respond urgently and with responsibility to the unprecedented COV...Read More

Changing conversations on mental health

While COVID-19 is considered to be a humanitarian crisis and multiplied the number of conversatio...Read More

Long form: Clinical Legacies and Counter-Narratives

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Queer Possibilities

The changing landscape of therapeutic practice with queer clientsRead More

Relocating Mental Health Conversations to Native Queer Subcultures in India

The Hijra community as a site and source of care This article attempts a culture-sensitive conv...Read More

‘I Get You’

Strengthening Peer Counseling within the Queer CommunityRead More

What Kind of Interventions Do We Need Now?

Poetry and healing: beyond clinical options This is an essay on how it is imperative, especially...Read More

Mental Stress: The Toiling Class in Slums

How customs and traditions, songs and rituals play a roleRead More

'Knife of Insight'

Experiences of toxic work cultures and the process of recoveryRead More

Rebuilding Therapeutic Spaces

Unlearning old frameworks: Towards a less one-sided practitioner-client relationshipRead More

An Invisible Intersection: Mental Healthcare for the Deaf Community

A realization crucial to building a Deafinclusive society is that living in a nonsigning world ca...Read More

Seeding Wellbeing in Drought- Prone Regions

A psychosocial approach to working with distraught farming communitiesRead 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

Resources for LGBTQI community during COVID

The pandemic has a disproportionate impact on persons and communities marginalised by gender 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

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

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

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

I Walk the Line

This article examines data from a research study that explored treatment experiences of users, an...Read More

Unrecognized and Unaddressed

Exploring the mental health gap for persons with physical and/or sensory disabilitiesRead More

Where Social Justice Meets Mental Health

A discussion on social justice, collective mental health and the impact of social hierarchies of ...Read More

ReFrame: Editor's Note

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

The ideal of ‘Recovery’

A critique of the conventional approach to  ‘care’ views persons with mental health that diagnose...Read More

Enhancing Livelihoods

Fostering social inclusion through setting up robust social, economic and livelihoods support sys...Read More

Peer Support Practice

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

Articulating Sexuality from the Margins

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