Foster an inclusive and open debate on mental health, promote active listening between us in order to improve our ability to communicate on the subject, destigmatize taboo subjects like our mental situation, promote knowledge of the causes and problems that we may have in order to understand ourselves better and know how to act and involve international students in this dialogue, being a difficult issue to reach.
After seeing different campaigns in recent months on the value that we must give to feeling well not only physically but also mentally, we wanted to provide an online workshop to our international students as well as to the UPF coordinators. In this workshop we talked about what mental health is, what its stigmas are, what prejudices we face, how to seek help, etc. with a special emphasis on the current situation that we find ourselves in due to the impact of the pandemic on our day to day.
