Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness

Our Psychosocial Support Courses are now Self-paced and Online

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness | Posted on November 25, 2022 | Author Pat Omidian

Finally, we did it!  We converted our in-person and online webinar coursesfor Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness (PSSCW) and Psychological First Aid into self-paced (work at your own speed) courses that you can access from any device.  These courses bring together many of my favorite […]

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Focusing and Art Club Changed My Life

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness | Posted on August 13, 2022 | Author mJD7649

Focusing showed me how to process my emotions and my experience in the world in a way that I had not done before. I wanted to share Focusing with my friends so that we could grow alongside each other and support each other. At the […]

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Introducing a new project: Better World for Kids

Psychosocial Support and Community WellnessWorking with Children | Posted on November 5, 2021 | Author Pat Omidian

Nine-year-old Joseph has been living on his own since he was seven, when his parents were killed by soldiers in an attack on his village.  He recently came to live in a refugee camp in Uganda, where he is fed and educated by community workers, […]

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Why would a family put a child to work?

Psychosocial Support and Community WellnessWorking with Children | Posted on October 2, 2021 | Author mJD7649

Asad’s father is a daily wage laborer without any skills. Every morning he goes to the city center after dropping his seven-year old son off at the machine shop where Asad works. The city center is the spot from where people hire unskilled and semi-skilled […]

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The Story Behind Brighter Tomorrow

Psychosocial Support and Community WellnessWorking with Children | Posted on August 24, 2021 | Author mJD7649

Syed Wajid has a round face and a trim white beard and a smile that lights up his eyes and warms the hearts of his companions. Child labor is a huge problem in Pakistan, he tells us. Some provincial governments have passed laws forbidding the […]

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Welcome to CoronaPlaza.Life

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness | Posted on April 2, 2020 | Author Pat Omidian

Yesterday was the first day of April. April’s Fool. And the launch of CoronaPlaza.Life. The Fool is a very ancient Archetype (“archetype” comes from ancient Greek “arché” that means “principle”, “basic entity” and “typos” that means “a model”, “a form/shape”) and from this Archetype comes […]

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