Arts 4 Trauma Healing

Healing Through Creative Arts

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

🔵🔴 KUMEKUCHA QUEST 🔵🔴
#kumekuchaquestpeersupport session still going on. "When people can come together in safe relationships ,they can hold each other in a way which allows their nervous system to settle and heal." - Benjamin Fry #KumekuchaQuest #TraumaInformedMentalHealth

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

🔵🔴 KUMEKUCHA QUEST 🔵🔴

#kumekuchaquestpeersupport session are made interesting when you use pictures to tell stories.

#SafeSpaces
#SupportiveSpaces
#HealingSpaces #KumekuchaQuest #TraumaInformedMentalHealth

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

Ramadhan Mubarak to all our Muslim brothers and sisters. #RamadhanMubarak

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

🔵🔴 KUMEKUCHA QUEST 🔵🔴
Amazing session and great experience going on in the #kumekuchaquestpeersupport program. Fun moments and learning new practical tools that everyone can use to improve their mental health as to cope with emotional distress .
#KumekuchaQuest

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

🔵🔴 KUMEKUCHA QUEST 🔵🔴
#KumekuchaQuestpeersupport are very important for young people as they create their own healing process within their community. #KumekuchaQuest #TraumaInformedMentalHealth
@GSNAfrica
@Samba4Youth

[Decent Conversations @DecentHub]

Yesterday we joined @dfh.rc in marking #worldbipolarday2022

We had great discussion with the youth on matters #MentalHealth #StressManagement #Bipolar #BipolarTogether

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

Congratulations Janet Bosibori for your achievement as the ambassador for Good Deeds Day in Kenya. @DFHRC is proud of you and celebrates you .
#DoingGoodKe
@VKenya
@KevinOdwar
@amani_balozi
@FredSadia

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

There is power in community peer support, art, dance ,music ,story telling and many more. Great opportunity to celebrate #worldbipolarday here in Majengo,Nairobi with inspiring change agents on mental health.
#CommunityPeerSupport
#JuuIkoSawaMtaani
#KumekuchaQuest

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

🔵🔴 KUMEKUCHA QUEST 🔵🔴

One key to engaging the youths during the #KumekuchaQuestpeersupport session is to allow the participants to take lead by giving them an opportunity to share their stories. #KumekuchaQuest #TraumaInformedMentalHealth
@GSNAfrica
@Samba4Youth

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

🔵🔴 KUMEKUCHA QUEST 🔵🔴

When youths are given a platform to support each other. They freely share their resilience stories that caused a turn around their life. #KumekuchaQuest #TraumaInformedMentalHealth
@Samba4Youth
@GSNAfrica

[Christine Ombima @ChristineOmbima]

@ChiromoHospGrp @iankiplangat4 @MbuthiaAmina @ChumbaAntony @BosekTitus @beatriceMasinde @NellyGichobi 1. Let's Talk Mental Health Kenya @LTMHKe
2. Chiromo Hospital Group @ChiromoHospGrp
3. Diplomats for Health in Resilient Community @DFHRC
4. Stand Out 4 Mental Health @SOut4MH
5. Users and Survivors of Psychiatry ~USP Kenya
6. Bipolar Heroes
7. Bipolar Society of Africa

[Green String Network @GSNAfrica]

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”- Pearl S. Buck.

#KumekuchaQuest

[Christine Ombima @ChristineOmbima]

30th March each year we commemorate World Bipolar Day to celebrate the strengths and abilities of those with lived experiences of Bipolar Disorder. All are welcome as we dance for mental wellness. Come one! Come all
Mental wellness through Dance, art and fashion
#bipolartogether

[Green String Network @GSNAfrica]

END/ We also thank the cast & crew who took their time to lend their experience, their skills, & their voices to this story.

@Dibanjo, Karin Waidley, Mecca Antonio Burns, Lucy Ochieng', @BabuBiko, @bonfacebeti, @YvonneGach , Anne Ochieng, @typicllymorgan, @DFHRC, @Samba4Youth

[Green String Network @GSNAfrica]

5/ The Story of OCS Afande was produced by @GSNAfrica with the support of @USEmbassyKenya.

We would not be able to have this powerful story if it was not shared by @wive_police's Anne Ochieng'.

[Green String Network @GSNAfrica]

2/...relations in the community, with the added factor of the #COVID19 Pandemic and the #NationwideCurfew.

The Story elicited a lot of reactions and engagements, with different people feeling a connection to different characters in the story.

[Green String Network @GSNAfrica]

📌THREAD ALERT📌

1/ Last Saturday we had the honor of premiering our Forum Theatre Podcast titled The Story of OCS Afande in #Kwale and #Majengo.

Over 120 people joined to have a listen in both locations, engaging in healthy discussions and debates on community policing and...

[Green String Network @GSNAfrica]

3/ When asked to give an alternate ending, different aspects of family relations, justice in the community, forgiveness in the family, the dynamics of police families were explored.

[Green String Network @GSNAfrica]

4/ In the end, the communities were able to have an engaging discourse and come up with their own solutions to the issues affecting policing in their community.

[Diplomats For Health In Resilient Community @DFHRC]

DFH-RC was graced by the visit of one of our Partners Dr. Angi Yonder Maina of @GSNAfrica visit at our offices in Majengo during the launch of OCS Afande Story. As a team we appreciate the support and looks towards a lasting partnership and collaborations .@angiyo58