Abhaya the Women’s Forum organized an enlightening session on Mental Health
Abhaya the Women’s Forum organized an enlightening session on Mental Health
for the students of St Agnes PU College on 18 th September 2024. The first session
was conducted for the students of commerce and arts stream and the second
session for the students of science stream. Dr Rameela Shekhar, Director,
Manashanthi Counseling, Mangaluru was the resource person. She began the
session with an activity encouraging students to reflect on the question WHO AM I
and share their thoughts. She emphasized the importance of building a strong
mind, as it serves as the core foundation of a person’s strength. She highlighted the
need to reframe negative thoughts to positive one by reframing words and phrases
like I CAN’T to I CAN. She stressed on the need to accept physical negativity
along with positive aspect of oneself. She gave pointers on how to manage stress
effectively and accentuated the importance of self-belief. She concluded by
reinforcing that PUC is the best time of life and encouraged students to make use
of the opportunities that comes in their way.
Shihama compered the first session and Shamitha welcomed the gathering and
introduced the resource person. Bhargavi was the MC for the second session and
Anjali introduced the resource person. Prajna and Ferin delivered the vote of
thanks for each session respectively. The Principal Sr Norine Dsouza, staff and
students were part of the session.