In this interactive workshop we will be exploring ways to look after our physical and emotional wellbeing. We will use a mixture of discussion, gentle movement, and mindfulness and compassion meditation practices.
Aims:
Explore the importance of self-care to balance work and life.
Practice a range of techniques to increase our self-care, which will allow us to look after our mental health and wellbeing.
We will also create a simple plan for embedding these practices into our daily lives to build our resilience.
Josetta Malcolm (they/them)
Josetta is a yoga and mindfulness meditation teacher with a background in lesbian gay bisexual trans and queer (LGBTQ) mental health and delivers LGBTQ inclusion training and wellbeing sessions. They are a Trans Non-Binary Intersex (TNBI) Engagement Worker and a Queer Trans Intersex Black Indigenous People of Colour (QTIBIPoC) Engagement Worker for The Clare Project in Brighton. This engagement work involves research and consultations to improve access to health care and wellbeing for TNBI communities. Josetta is also studying for a Masters’ Degree in Mindfulness, Neuroscience and Psychology. They are a passionate advocate of using yoga and mindfulness to improve emotional and physical wellbeing, inspired by their personal use of self-care practices to manage a busy work life and their own mental health conditions, autism and ADHD.
Josetta is a non-binary, intersex, queer, Black, older, disabled, vegan, amongst other things, whose claim to fame is their dad was on the maiden voyage of the Windrush!
House of Rainbow
The UK's primary support organisation for LGBTIQ+ people of colour who are struggling to reconcile their spirituality and sexuality.
Supports sister organisations in twenty-two countries in Africa and the Caribbean and has become a leading, global advocate for LGBTIQ+ people of faith.