DIMH2024

Pre-Recorded Videos & Additional Content

A Preview Conversation with JClay on The Artist's Mind: Creativity, Vulnerability & Mental Well-Being

attend the live interactive session hosted by keynote speaker JClay 3-4pm uk time 18th july. find out more here

Finding Calm Through Doodling

Saira Arif (see BIO & examples of her doodling)

Join Saira Arif as she delves into the transformative power of doodling. In this talk, Saira will explore how doodling can enhance creativity, reduce stress and improve cognitive functions. Drawing from her extensive experience in business, tech, wellbeing and creative therapy, she will share insights and practical tips on how to integrate doodling into daily routines for personal and professional growth.

Fake it 'til you make it: Some Thoughts on Conquering Imposter Syndrome

Alex Napp-Vega; Student (see bio)
Nicholas Napp / CEO, Xmark Labs LLC; Senior Member, IEEE (see bio)

We've presented at DIMH several times, but when the email for 2024 arrived, we saw the topic list and immediately thought we were unqualified to contribute this year. But then we realized that thinking this made us ideal candidates to talk about Imposter Syndrome. This talk digs into Imposter Syndrome, shares some personal experiences, and provides a loose framework designed to help you conquer it.

Co-designing Personalized Mental Health Tech with Youth

Kathleen Guan (see bio)

This presentation explores the co-design of personalized mental health technology with youth. Recognizing youth as digital natives, our work leverages their comfort with technology to enhance mental health support through innovative personalization strategies. Specifically, advancements in artificial intelligence and Large Language Models (AI/LLMs) can facilitate context-aware, dynamic, and individually tailored solutions.

The methodology involves participatory engagement with youth, through collaborations with community health organizations and schools. Interactive workshops educate youth about AI and LLMs, enabling them to validate and co-design data-driven scenarios and personas derived from comprehensive mental health datasets. This approach ensures the tech interventions can be relevant, engaging, and effective for addressing the unique intersectional factors influencing each individual's mental health. Challenges such as safeguarding privacy, mitigating algorithmic bias, and ensuring equity are addressed through continuous community involvement.

The Therapeutic Power of Being an Artist

Sasha Polakov (see bio)

In this video, Sasha Polakov discusses how her experience of being a filmmaker and writer not only informed her studies of neuroscience but opened up the doors to the most important study – the one of herself. She explains how storytelling can greatly impact our wellbeing and the importance of using art to learn more about oneself and the larger world.

Introducing you to Brenda

Mads Baker & Chris Makin

Meet Brenda! A platform created by Mads Baker to communicate AI information in a visually exciting and approachable new way. Creating an ecosystem that will include, engage and inspire women and under-represented communities in an important conversation that up till now they haven’t felt part of. Brenda is bold, optimistic and fun, showcasing groundbreaking AI content and a diverse range of ideas. It will bring a whole new perspective to the AI revolution. Mads will be taking us through the concepts behind Brenda, explain what she hopes to achieve and give us a sneak peak of the site that is just days away from launching.

email: Email: hello@brenda.org.uk

Embodied Practice: A Comprehensive Overview

Mark Ball (bio coming soon) & Professor Elvira Perez Vallejos (bio coming soon)

What the video covers:

A recent book chapter, published by Palgrave, entitled "Encyclopaedia of Creative Practice”. The work follows on from Kolk’s seminal work, exploring how trauma resides in the body, and primitive part of the brain. Having worked with trauma survivors for many years, I noticed how boxing improves wellbeing. Can boxing write the narrative regarding surviving trauma? What happens in the brain when we practice non-contact boxing?

Transformation Through Narrative Constellations

Amanda Kuehn, MFA, MFT Trainee (see bio)

In this video, Amanda discusses the process of forming, questioning, and reforming narrative constellations as a pathway towards personal transformation.

Art for Inclusion

Anna-Maria Amato (see bio)

A brief overview on the how art can be woven into inclusion and why it is important as a function of community. 

Overcoming Creative Arts Imposter Syndrome

James Morehead, Product Manager (Silicon Valley) and Poet Laureate - Dublin, California

In "Overcoming Creative Arts Imposter Syndrome," I share my personal journey as a poet and Silicon Valley professional, and how I overcame the feeling of being an imposter as a creative artist (and being self-conscious about sharing my artistic side at work). If you feel the same way, give this a click and a view - you aren't alone.

Analog Games and Community as Creative Mental Wellness Care

Olu Olabode (see bio) interviewed by Craig De Large

In this talk he talks about analog card sets as a means of helping one establish and execute their own custom digital wellness approach. We also have a good time talking about No Gadget Hangouts as a space for community and connection, away from our digital devices.

Poetry: Mystery of Mental Health and Mysticism

Tessa Amina Thulien, MA, LPC

Discover the transformative journey of Tessa Amina Thulien, She/They, Poet, Licensed Professional Counselor, Reiki Master, and Sacred Creativity Coach. Through her profound lived experiences of navigating mental health challenges and spiritual psychosis, she unveils the Poetry of Healing and the Mysticism of Self discovery. She is the Founder of Intuitive Expression, a practice that guides clients towards a deeper connection with their inherent worth, nurturing trust in the inner voice of the heart. Tessa's unique blend of creativity and therapeutic expertise offers a path of mystery and mending, inviting others to explore their own profound journey towards healing and self-acceptance.

Noise Solution in Partnership

Simon Glenister

Fresh from winning a National Digital Revolution Award for AI innovation (beating Microsoft), here Noise Solution starts to talk about their approach to using AI to shake up outcomes reporting. No smiley feedback forms here, but real conversations with data direct from participants reflecting on their experience as they progress through a music mentoring programme. Live analysis of qualitative data that can be analysed to show how basic psychological needs of autonomy competence and relatedness are present (or not) in those reflections. Paving the way for genuine live 360 outcomes analysis and automatic reporting of the organisation's work. To put the value of that automation into perspective, the UK charity sector alone spends 18.5 million hours a year in reporting. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/NoiseSolutionUK

Digital Technologies and Peer Support: A Conversation

Ann Kasper, MA, CPSS and Karen Machin

Your Key to Calming your Body, Mind, and Soul

Colinda Latour

Heart Breathing is a mindful practice where you breathe deeply in and out of your heart. Imagine love flooding your cells and a beautiful loving energy flowing through your body as you breathe. Keeping focused on your heart centre as you breathe while sending messages of wellbeing, appreciation, and love into your body, mind, and soul. This simple technique, practiced daily, helps create a state of calm, unity, and emotional balance.

www.colindalatour.com /  https://www.linkedin.com/in/colindalatour/ /  https://www.instagram.com/colindalatour/

Dewar Wright

In the not-too-distant future, technology becomes human-like and humans become technology-like; AI doesn’t seem so artificial anymore and VR is virtually reality. Envisage a distant digital renaissance where AI generated therapists are available to all. Here to supplement or replace therapists? Only time will tell.

Four Videos by Jenny Meehan

Independent Fine Arts Professional, BA Hons Literature and PGCE

First Video: Recording: A reflection on digital technology and it's impact on my creative and psychoanalytic process.

Second Video: 'Who' Poem and Process: Video collage exploring play and social connections as a generation of new ideas during a drawing course at West Dean College.

Third Video: Floored: Surrealistic video created to provide catharsis from past experiences of sexual assault. Also a free form way of thinking about maternal sexual assault (this content might possible be triggering for some).

Fourth Video: Is it Some Kind of Portal? Video: Jenny Meehan inside her drawing. A portal as a metaphor for the gateway to creation as an artist.

Towards a Healthy Boon Lay Together

MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation, singapore

Discover how residents see, feel, and experience health in the Boon Lay Healthy Precinct in this video that premiered at the Healthy Boon Lay event on 1 June 2024.

In this "Towards a Healthy Boon Lay Together" video, three Boon Lay residents share what it is like to be a part of a “healthy precinct” where eating well, keeping fit and caring for one another has become part and parcel of life in Healthy Boon Lay.

Stay tuned till the end for a message from Mr Desmond Lee, Minister for National Development, Minister-in-charge of Social Services Integration, and Adviser to West Coast GRC Grassroots Organisations. 

More content coming soon