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3. your facilitator
Jules Plumadore (he/they)
● Community-based mental health &
social justice
● Movies, music, games
● Ohlone Land (Oakland, CA) with
partner & dog, Arvo

4. brought to you by…
● Campus workshops
● Short film competitions
● Short film production grants
● Global community

5. land acknowledgement
We want to take a moment to honor the
Conestoga-Susquehannock tribe, who were the ancestral
caretakers of the land around North East Maryland. To learn
more, you can visit the tribe’s website listed in our shared
notes.

6. community agreements
Accept Incompletion
Take Space, Make Space
Seek To Understand
Care for Yourself
Consent
What’s said here stays here,
what’s learned here leaves here

7. here’s the plan
1. Define our terms
2. Practice a way of expressing ourselves:
Immerse - Explore - Express
3. Share
4. Panel
5. Evaluation
(and a chance to enter to win $25 or one of
two Cecil hoodies!)

8. Need support?
Access mental health support throughout this workshop.
#1
Click Shared Notes
To link to online
resources
#2
Private Chat mental health pros.
They are at the top and have *next
to their names

9. 3 ways to engage
We welcome your participation!
CHAT BOX: Use the Public
Chat to connect with the
whole group
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10. 3 ways to engage
We welcome your participation!
POLL: respond
to a Poll when
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Set Your Status by
clicking on your name and
selecting from the
drop-down menu
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11. for technical assistance…
Look for the person whose name begins with
AWI Support and private chat them with any issues.

14. MENTAL HEALTH

15. MENTAL HEALTH
Mental illness
Mental wellness

17. poetry
For this workshop we’ll define poetry as a
condensed expression of your thoughts or
feelings.
Anything you put to paper with intention
can be poetry.

18. Immerse, Explore, Express
As a group, we will immerse ourselves in 2
short films from our OLIVE Film Collection.
Together, we will explore the themes brought
up in the films through discussion.
Individually, we will express our thoughts and
feelings through writing exercises to create
poetry as a response.

19. Immerse, Explore, Express
Round 1

20. Parallel
By Naomi B. Smith
AWI Winner, December 2019
CONTENT HEADS UP
depictions of depression

21. What’s coming up?
You are invited to share a few words in the chat to describe
how you’re feeling.

22. What can stand between
us and hope?

23. Free Write
“Climbing the mountain of the morning”

24. How did that feel?
Did you write anything that
surprised you?
Self Reflection

25. Find the Sculpture
“Climbing the mountain of the morning”

26. Let’s share!
● Never be afraid - take one step at a time and breathe. Everything will
eventually come together and you feel a weight lifted off your shoulders.
● The higher I climbed, the more the world below me transformed. The trees
gave way to alpine meadows, painted in a riot of wildflowers.
● Climbing the mountain of the morning, I find myself at the bottom of the slope
each day. I fight, I climb, I crawl until I reach the peak. Even in that moment of
pain and exhaustion, I’ve continued to climb.
● If you know my past, you say, how is she breathing. I use my testimony to
look at me and share it so you can be free!

27. Take a breath

28. Immerse, Explore, Express
Round 2

29. Little Elizabeth
By Elizabeth Ayiku
AWI Winner, February 2018
CONTENT HEADS UP
discussion of trauma and childhood sexual assault

30. What’s coming up?
You are invited to share a few words to describe how you’re
feeling.

31. What are some important
messages you’ve needed to give
yourself in
order to grow?

32. Free Write
“A love letter to a younger you”

33. How did that feel?
Did you write anything that
surprised you?
Self Reflection

34. Find the sculpture
“A love letter to a younger you”

35. Let’s share!
● Be kind, not only to others but also to yourself. The world can be harsh, and
you may carry self-doubt and self-criticism with you. But know that you are
deserving of love and compassion, from both others and yourself.
● Younger self, I need to apologize about not having a voice. Today I am
stronger, wiser, and definitely can voice my concerns and opinions, as a child
I wasn’t able to even give myself that much credit.
● STRENGTH COURAGE DEFEAT PICK IT BACK UP / NO ONE CAN STOP
ME IM GOING BE ME ENCOURAGING VICTORIOUS AND FREE
● Life will fall all the way apart and you will be broken to an unbelievable
degree / But you will find strength, in the idea that life can get better.

36. Take a breath

37. Immerse, Explore, Express
Round 3

38. finding gratitude…

39. Freely & Deliberately
“All I need...”

40. Let’s share!
● The breath in my lungs and the blood in my heart, / The faith that I stand on
to set life apart, / Apart from the pain and the traumas I knew / Traumas that
set the path, foundation for my life / A guide and a memory that makes me
always think twice.
● All I needed was to be loved instead I did all the loving to try and help their
broken hearts, all I got was my own broken heart. All I needed was support, I
never received any until you deemed it necessary and that hurt the most.
● All I need is my emotions. / All I need is to cry sometimes. / All I need is
understanding and to be me / All I need is space to paint on the canvas of life.

41. You can take this process forward…
Immerse
Explore
Express

42. meet the panel
Raegen Iler (she/her)
Coordinator of Accessibility Services - Cecil College
Stephany Ramsey, LMSW (she/her)
School Intervention Specialist - Eastern Shore Crisis
Response Services - The Affiliated Santé Group

43. virtual mingle / Q&A
Ask a question or share a thought!
You can raise your hand (see image below) to be given
instructions to audio in, use the public chat box, or
send a private message to AWI Support / a panelist.

44. Please fill out the evaluation!
You can enter for a chance to win a $25 gift or one of two Cecil
hoodies!
https://bit.ly/cecil-survey
If you are receiving credit for attending this workshop, at the end
of the evaluation, you’ll be prompted to add your information to a sign-in sheet.
Evaluation responses will remain separate and anonymous.
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