California institute of integral studies p4 mh-q - 4.13.21 - presentation (1)

#Poetry4MentalHealth
Celebrating and exploring
LGBTQIA+ stories through
ﬁlm and poetry
@artwithimpact

YOUR FACILITATOR: 1990s Chris
1990s Chris (he/him) is a queer
working class poet and writer, from
Hereford, England, specialising in
ﬁlm and audio. He has performed
at the Royal Albert Hall, and the
Eden Project as well as writing for
BBC sounds, and Channel 4
Random Acts. His work hopes to
start discussion around
masculinity, class, queer identity
and mental health.
IG & Twitter: @1990schris

BROUGHT TO YOU BY
○ Campus workshops
○ Monthly short ﬁlm competition
○ Short ﬁlm production grants
○ Global community
Individual Sponsors
● Dr. Sabina Correa, Psychologist
and Owner of Napa
Psychological Services
https://www.nps-ca.com
● Victoria Julita Spiers, LMFT
https://www.tenderliminalcaretherapy.com/
● Cindy Shu, LMFT
https://www.cindyshutherapy.com
● Zoi Dorit Eliou, Ph.D.
https://dreliou.com/

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
a $25 Amazon gift card!)

HEADS UP
● Mental health is personal – YOU are the expert on
your own experience
● Talking about our mental health in relation to our
sexual orientations and genders can be intensely
personal
● We are online - this is a public, shared space
● We are recording this session for internal training
and evaluation purposes
● Please take care of yourself however you need,
including asking for help.

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

3 WAYS TO ENGAGE
We welcome your participation
CHAT BOX: Use the
Public Chat to connect
with the whole group
#1

POLL: respond
to a Poll when
prompted
#2
Set Your Status by
clicking on your name
and selecting from
the drop-down menu
#3
3 WAYS TO ENGAGE
We welcome your participation

If you need tech
support, ask…
Look for the person whose name begins with
AWI Support and Private Chat them with any issues.

#Movies4MentalHealth
POLL: Who’s here today?
C
B
Student at
CIIS
A
Faculty/staff at
CIIS
Somebody else
(share in chat!)

#Movies4MentalHealth
A California
Another State
Another country
POLL: Where in the world are you?
C
B

HOW ARE YOU, REALLY?
Share a few words in the
chat to describe how you’re
feeling right now.
● Alert, calm, open
● Relaxed
● Grateful, spacious, hungry
● hyper, anxious, tired
● actually, pretty depressed, though glad to be here
● curious
● frazzled
● curious
● I am feeling like I need another coffee
● Hopeful, distracted, grateful
● relaxed, excited!
● Open, excited, ready to hear some great laa, laaaaa. lalallalala
● Curious; full; relieved
● grateful and excited to connect.
● Interested, engaged, hopeful
● Ready, grateful, curious

WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE
DISCUSSING MENTAL HEALTH?
None
Unfamiliar
Familiar
Very Familiar
Expert
A
B
C
D
E

MENTAL HEALTH

Mental illness
Mental wellness
MENTAL HEALTH

LGBTQIA+
In the chat share as many words that you can think of
that you associate with the LGBTQIA+ / Queer community.
● home
● Freedom
● safety
● Community
● Magic superpowers
● expression
● Pride, love, freedom, wellbeing, acceptance, truth, openness
● Open mind
● love and beauty and courage and pain
● Joy
● Chosen Family <3
● family
● deep fulﬁlling breaths
● Family, beauty, acceptance, loverly
● Discrimination

WHAT IS YOUR CONNECTION TO THE
LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY?
I’m not connected to the community
I have friends in the community
I am part of the community
A
B
C

THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
We are considering anyone who’s
gender identity is anything other
than cisgender and anyone who’s
sexual orientation is anything
other than heterosexual to be part
of the community.

LGBTQIA+ OR QUEER?
● For this workshop we will use the
terms interchangeably during
this session.
● For this session I will use Queer
as an umbrella term that refers
to all those in the LGBTQIA+
acronym.

WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE
WITH WRITING POETRY?
A None
I mean, a little in school, maybe?
I’ve written a bit here and there...
I write poetry all the time!
C
B
D

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

IMMERSE, EXPLORE, EXPRESS
We will immerse ourselves in 2 short ﬁlms
from our OLIVE Film Collection.
We will explore the themes brought up in the
ﬁlms through interactive polls and
discussion.
We’ll express our thoughts and feelings
through writing exercises to create poetry as
a response.

Round 1

FACTORY TALK
BY LUCIE RACHEL & 1990S CHRIS
Immerse
Content heads up: homophobia, biphobia, toxic masculinity

You are invited to share a few words in the
chat to describe how you’re feeling.
Immerse
● nostalgic and moved
● tender <3
● Sad. Disappointed. Care.
● Connected
● slo-mo
● Wowza! Snaps. The metaphors were beautiful, honest,
painful, and hopeful at once.

SCENARIO
Put yourself in the position of our bisexual
factory worker.
Explore

SCENARIO
Put yourself in the position of our bisexual factory worker.
Explore
CHAT BOX
Your co-worker tells you he doesn’t agree with people being gay. How do
you respond?
- how do I want to respond or actually do?
- someone being gay shouldn't change your opinion of them
- It depends how safe i feel. I might play it off like im not. I might challenge him.
- I think I would feel compelled to hide my identity, and conﬂicted and depressed
about all the parts of me I am feeling afraid of sharing
- "It's funny that you think you get to 'disagree' with a person's existence, but ok."
- I would ask why?
- Honestly, sometimes I am just sad and tired and stare blankly...
- I think these conversations are great opportunities to learn and teach
- but of course it is important to consider safety
- Also if this coworker happens to be a supervisor or someone in a higher position,
this conversation could look very different
- Ask a question: What is the advantage of labeling people? and explore my
colleague's opinion, the intention will be learning and exploring

Take a breath.
Immerse

FREE WRITE
“They Say”
Immerse

WRITING DEBRIEF
How did that feel?
Did you write anything that
surprised you?
Express

FIND THE SCULPTURE
“They Say”
Immerse

Let’s share!
Immerse
That they know best
That their God is the only God
Rise up fellow genderqueers
Rise up comrades
Who are nonbinary,
Transgender
And all the terms I have yet to learn about non-gender
conforming folks
They say home is singular, I say my home
is plural.
They say, they say. I'm sick of doing things their
way, it's a brand new day and I own it.
They say… it is better to be one way…
We say that we must be our authentic selves…
I say that the world is ready for who we are.
I hope they say is not ideal, not right, unfamiliar, it is
unfair, unconventional, it is difficult to deal with what I
know
I say fuck what they say. Yet they stay in my
head if I allow them to. Time to let them go
and what they say, to hear what I say.
I am not deceived- as they say. I am holy
unfiltered light beams through dust covered
corners of yours and my mind
You know it all
You know it all
You bother me
You have all the words
Except the fucking pronoun that just let me be
We are all here, humans, beings, findings and
seekings. Here. Finding magnificent ways of
living, beyond the horrible, here.

Round 2

STAGING FACE
BY STEPH YOUNG, JAKE IVANY & VIE JONES
Immerse
Content heads up: discussion of depression, anxiety, transphobia,
misgendering

You are invited to share a few words in the
chat to describe how you’re feeling.
Immerse
● Beautiful <3
● Touching.
● honored to bear witness!!
● stunning and so meaningful
● that was rly touching, and having their perspective is wow
● unbelievably powerful, compassionate and inspiring
● empowering! essentially human!
● Really affirming, powerful

SCENARIO
Think about the struggles
of these three characters.
Explore
It’s taken a lot to reject traditional notions of
gender and ﬁnd recognition. People hold very
tightly to these traditional ideas.

SCENARIO
Think about the struggles of these three characters.
Explore
CHAT BOX
Why do we, as a society, resist seeing people’s true selves?
It’s taken a lot to reject traditional notions of gender and ﬁnd recognition.
People hold very tightly to these traditional ideas.
- because we don't understand them
- fear
- Fear that our lives will be changed
- It makes us question our own beliefs or our own identities
- because it forces us think about the truth of our own selves - scary!
- We can not hold complexity and unknown
- The fear of other is propagated through the hate politics that
institutions in power strive through.
- Because folx living their truth expose the parts of ourselves we wish
we could be.
- patriarchy shit

FREE WRITE
“They See”
Explore

FIND THE SCULPTURE
“They See”
Immerse

Let’s share!
Immerse
Conversion therapy
Who are they trying to kid
Maybe ‘check yourself before you wreck yourself’
Honey,
You sure there’s no internalized homophobia?
They see what they want, yet it's assumed my
problem. They don't ask for answers, and won't
listen when I got 'em.
Gender is supposed to be
This agreement between you and me
Where we both say the way I look
Means certain things
And I’m not sure
That I think it means
What you think it means
They see what is visible, what is apparent, what is
underneath the surface get lost. They lack words,
images and hope. The miss the courage, genuine
opportunity to explore.
They see some sort of mysterious creature, a
coded message. They see someone trying to trick
them, trying to convert them, trying to challenge
them. Okay, so that last one might be true.
Their truth is deeply locked away. Its quite sad
actually, meanwhile my friends and I see magic in
our eyes and beauty in the way we walk our ﬁne
selves in our truth.
our delight is too pure, too painful, too unwilling to
be withheld
a celebration of embodiment.
an expression of being… beyond all beliefs.
beyond all identities and roles…they see me.
a celebration of embodiment.
an expression of being… beyond all beliefs.
beyond all identities and roles…they see me.

What can we do, both as allies and as members of
the community, to make positive change?
Explore
CHAT BOX
● educate ourselves and others
● Make space for our own truths
● Make art! Share art.
● challenge oppressive norms
● be who we needed when we were young
● live and love freely and intentionally
● make space for closeted folks!
● Challenging internalized biases
● Ask questions and listen to learn
● be very intentional in our relationships
● Breathe and go slowly
● honor those who came before- and those who were silenced, but
spoke anyways
● Cultivate self-compassion

Take a breath.
Explore

FREELY &
DELIBERATELY
“What Can We Do?”
Express

Let’s share!
Immerse
We have to take care of ourselves
Before battling the dragons of others
The sword does carry some weight
And sometimes we only realize when it’s too late
And we’ve fallen down again
Let the baby queer
Know that who they are
Is ok!
Fuck- more than ok-
Celebrated!
They
Are
Fucking
Celebrated.
Melt every sunrise into a pot of hot applesauce,
just waiting to be someone's ﬁrst taste of morning
sweetness.
Approach reality lightly letting go of believes to
reconvene in a space that is bondless and explore
what can happen next.
If today we were to change,
and we began to understand-
that experiences fall across the range;
we are who we are… love who you can!
If today we were to change,
and we began to understand-
that experiences fall across the range;
we are who we are… love who you can!
hold me
and bite me
but don’t fuck me over
teach me
and touch me
but don’t turn away
Today, in prayer, I melted to the ﬂoor. I said,
Please, move me, hold me, and I danced. We
dance alone, together, it all. What can we do?
Dance. Radical, simple, dance.

You can take this process forward…
Immerse
Explore
Express

AWI: Continued Connections
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Interview and discussion opportunities
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MEET THE PANEL
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John Carson (he/him)
Adjunct Faculty, Clinical Psychology, CIIS
Trey Terrio (he/him)
Tech Outreach Coordinator, Mental Health Association of San Francisco

Please ﬁll out the evaluation!
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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
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Evaluation responses will remain separate and anonymous.

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