Group Therapy, Support Group and Community Space

Our Group therapy, Support Group and Community Spaces are lead by mental health professionals, and peer support practitioners as well as community mental health advocates.

Each group and community space is held to explore the dominant discourses and access preferred ways of being. We centre Narrative and Mindfulness based practices in each of our work. We also ensure that we are informed by anti-oppressive stance in our work (ND affirmative, Queer Affirmative, Anti-caste and Anti-patriarchal). Our work continues to shape us and our community supports us in this shaping. Please join us in our collective explorations. For latest updates on our groups for the month take a look at the pinned posts on our Instagram feed.

Brief Description of our Groups

This is an ongoing group since 2020 and often held twice a month . It is run by facilitators who are ND folks themselves and some of them are also mental health practitioners. The group is held in gentle manner to support whatever is current for folks who join the space. There is a whatsapp group to connect to seek support and perspective also. There is a small fee for this group (Rs 100-300)

In this group, queer trans folks share their experiences in a community through art, play, movement and mindfulness. We speak about queerness, experience of being in a community, intersectional identities, and so much more. This group is held twice a week at QTcenter in Habsiguda. This group is free of cost.

This is an online group of members who are interested in coming together on a weekly basis to read and discuss one picture book from Pause Library. This session is facilitated by our library educator. Their is also a Whatsapp group that you can be part of to get updates and latest collective reflections. This group is free of cost.

This is a warm community space for collective resistance through crafting and exploration of communities and collectives that craft for liberation. We gather together online, to craft together while we witness a piece of media (video, reading etc) of a community of people who craft for liberation. This group is held once a month. There is a Whatsapp group. This is a pay as you can space, proceeds go to a chosen mutual aid.

The anti caste reading circle invites leaders, researchers, activists, writers and artists who work in the space of anti-caste liberation. We also witness readings curated by our faciltiators and explore and ground into anticaste possibilities in Mental Health. This group is held once a month. This space is free of cost for people from caste margins and is Rs 300-500 for those from caste privilege.

This is a once a month reading group held with the hope to bring liberatory centered reading and reflection into a circle that comes together every month. Often the readings are at the intersections of social sciences, psychology, fiction and more. There is a Whatsapp group. There is a small fee for this group (Rs 300).

This is a community support space for people with a diagnosis of Bipolar. This space is held by a mental health advocate and a person with lived experience and centers liberatory, Neurodivergent and MAD pride frames of understanding and living with Bipolar. This group takes place once a month and there is a Whatsapp group. There is also a small fee for the sessions. (Rs 300-500)

This is a space for men to discuss their experience of mental health and articulate possibiliies of a world where their mental health is also a part of the larger mental health discourse. This group takes place once a month. There is a small fee for this group (Rs 500)

This is a Safe Circle for Those Carrying Caste Wounds. Caste leaves deep scars — on our bodies, our relationships, our sense of self. Many of us carry unspoken grief, anger, and fear. This group offers a safe space for marginalized individuals with lived experience of caste oppression to share, listen, and heal together. This group takes place once a month. This group is free of cost.

This is a group that brings movies once every month to the space to watch and discuss as a group. Movies that are chosen range from animes onwards and center queer, anticaste, disability centered, and other themes relevant to mental health and everyday lives. There is a small fee for this space. (Rs 150-300)

This is a platform for artists, writers, poets, musicians and creatives of all walks of life to come together to share a piece of their work and experience in a circle that comes together every month to center liberatory work in the form of everyday joys, artistic creativity and more. There is a small fee for those who attend (Rs 100-300).

This is a space to explore our individual and collective wellbeing through the expressive arts. This group is held once a month and there is a small fee for this space (Rs 100-500)

This is a group that meets once every month to center individal and collective loss of animals that are family in our homes and part of our collective life in everyday worlds. We center ecological justice in the ways in which we hold space. There is a small fee for this group (Rs 300-500).

This is a weekly-biweekly group that as been ongoing since 2017. The invitation of the sangha is to meet together and practice embodiment together as a collective. Practices from Mindfulness based Embodied Social Justice will be offered in a guided manner by the facilitator. There is a WhatsApp group for members to connect and get updates. This event is free of cost and open to donations.

This is a once a month online support group for queer trans folks. The group is led by a peer facilitator and is a gentle and friendly space to connet with other queer folks and disucss everyday life joys and resistance in our lives. There is a Whatsapp group for this space. There is also a small fee for this group (Rs 100).

Brief Description of our Groups

Support Group for Neurodivergent People (Online)

Queer Mental Health Support Group (In person)

Book Nooks-Read Aloud (Online)

Crafting for Liberation (Online)

Anti Caste Reading Circle (Hybrid)

Across the Room (Online)

Reclaiming 'Bipolar' (Online)

Men's Mental Health Support Group (Hybrid)

Mental Health Support Group for Caste Oppressed Individuals (Online)

Movie Time (In Person)

Circle of Reclamation (Hybrid)

Expressions of Well Being (Online)

Grief with Animals (Online)

Mindfulness Sangha (Online)

Queer Support Group (Online)