Mental Health Awareness Program at Pause for Perspective

Pause for Perspective’s Mental Health Awareness Program (MHA) supports organisations, collectives, schools, campuses, and community groups to build a shared, practical understanding of mental health. These sessions are designed to make mental health conversations clear, usable, and context-aware.

Our approach is grounded in:

  • Accessibility (language, pacing, formats, and cost)

  • A social lens (how stress, distress, and coping are shaped by culture, power, work conditions, gender, caste, class, disability, and everyday inequality)

  • Relational care (how teams and communities can respond, not just individuals)

  • Skill-building (simple frameworks people can actually use)

MHA can be offered as a one-time session, a short workshop series, or a longer engagement depending on what your group needs.

What these sessions typically do

Depending on the level you choose, participants will be supported to:

  • Understand mental health beyond myths, stigma, and “positive thinking”

  • Name common forms of distress (including burnout, anxiety, low mood, grief, overwhelm, shutdown, conflict fatigue)

  • Recognise early signs in self and others without pathologising

  • Learn everyday practices for steadier capacity, boundaries, and support-seeking

  • Build basic team agreements around care, privacy, and referral pathways

Engagement levels

Level 1: Mental Health Awareness Session

A foundational session that introduces mental health in everyday language and explores:

  • What mental health is (and what it is not)

  • Different experiences of distress across life stages and contexts

  • What “support” can look like in a realistic, non-performative way

  • Simple practices for capacity, rest, and self-care

Format: 1.5 hours
Fee: Free / low-cost (access-based)

Level 2: Specialised Workshops

These workshops go deeper into specific topics relevant to your group’s needs. Examples include:

  • Consent

  • Comprehensive Sexuality Education

  • Stress and burnout

  • Substance use and addiction

  • Peer pressure

  • Bullying

  • Gratitude (grounded and realistic, not forced positivity)

  • Body image

  • Emotions and regulation

  • Time management

  • Mindful parenting

  • And more (customisable)

Format: 2 hours
Fee: Small fee (access-based; scaled depending on organisation type and capacity)

Level 3: Longer-Term Mental Health Projects

For organisations and communities looking for ongoing support and capacity-building over 3 / 6 / 12 months. These engagements are collaborative and can include:

  • Mindfulness-based programs (contextualised and trauma-aware)

  • Training for community workers / staff teams

  • Slow-down and capacity building workshops

  • Regular counselling / consultation at organisations

  • Custom mental health offerings based on your population and context

Format: Designed together (timeline + frequency + scope)
Fee: Based on duration and scope

Snapshot of earlier work in the last few years:

Level 1: Mental Health Awareness sessions were offered to organisations including RBVRR, Madras University, Youth4Jobs, CoMakeIT, Majestic Hospital, Salesforce, HCU, Panineeya, WeWork, BITS, Geetanjali, Fernandez Hospital, CLowork, IIT, Shaheen, Asian Institute of Nephrology, Malla Reddy College, and the National Youth Conference Hyderabad, reaching 2470+ individuals.

Level 2: Specialised workshops were offered to CoMakeIT, WeWork, Innominds, and Shanti Welfare, reaching 200+ individuals.

Level 3: Longer engagements included employee assistance programs for MNCs such as CS. INC and Facebook, and mental health training for community workers at Shaheen Women’s Resource.

(This section reflects the summary as previously listed on the website for that period.)

Invite us to your organisation

To explore a session or plan an engagement, reach out:

WhatsApp/Call: 9490708947
Email: pause.perspective@gmail.com

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