Saint Charles Lwanga America Center- [SCLAC]

Mental Health Focus Day (MHFD) An Environment-Mind–Body–Soul (EMBS) Healing & Movement-Based Mental Health Initiative by Saint Charles Lwanga America Center Objectives: By the end of the session you will: 1. Have learnt about perception and stance 2. Have used perception and stance to enhance awareness 3. Turn awareness into decision-cues and modification of practices 4. Explore evidence-based approaches to stress reduction and anticipation 1. Introduction At the Saint Charles Lwanga America Center we dedicate a day for what we term as " My Mental Health tub" (Mental Health Tub) We envision you as immersing yourself in a tub. It is a holistic, individual-led mental health and healing initiative. By the time we end the session you will have: find activities that build back mental health. The program uses an Environment- mind–body–soul (EMBS) approach combining: Music, dance, drama, dressing & movement healing (Throb sequences and rhythmic expression)  Communit...

Saint Charles Lwanga America Center (SCLAC) is a not-for-profit social development organization. It was created to spotlight opportunities in which people can engage to promote better health outcomes, uphold practices that prolong life and mobilize resources contributing to preventing disease and poverty. Who We Are: A not-for profit organization contributing to better life outcomes among Americans through a range of  activities geared at engaging in life promoting practices and rooted in access, dignity and collective care.  Vision:  Spotlighting the potential for planned community-based events as catalysts that foster life-enhancing and over-arching action leveraging prevention of diseases, prolonging of life and promoting of health at individual, household, community and population levels in the entire world. Mission:  Apply social, cultural, economic, biological, political and technological enabling and responsive systems and structures as potential for communiti...

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Cliff uses music, dance and drama to engage students in break away from the phone, laptop and all virtual social media platforms for a span of time. They use this time for mindfulness activities.

Dewey is a pastoral worker, educationist and development worker all-in-one.   The work and service is among children, adolescents and adults.  It continues to shape a positive view of life.   Dewey has experience working in social transformation spaces that  catalyze engaged examination of life enhancing practices leading to quality of life outcomes for children, adolescents, adults and seniors.  Dewey has extensive experience working in social transformation spaces that foster deep, engaged inquiry into life-enhancing practices aimed at improving the quality of life for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. Dewey co-designed the Negotiated Periodic Weaning (NPW) methodology, an intentional process where participants agree to intermittently step back from phones, laptops, and virtual social media platforms. This pause creates space for mindfulness, reflection, and meaningful reconnection with self and community.  Guided by a belief in t...

Dennis is an educationist and development work whose work has enabled high schoolers to remain in school until they graduated.  This has meant not only teaching grade level classes but also providing mentorship sessions. 

  Saint Charles Lwanga America Center came about following several events two of which are: 1. I have been teaching remedial and after-school classes during undergrad, grad and postgrad.  I noticed that pupils and students were distracted by virtual social media platforms/apps that they accessed covertly or overtly. In most cases when found, it meant losing points. I came up with ways to incentivize them but at the same time ensure that no one felt judged.  I developed several  self-confidence tools. I want to use Saint Charles Lwanga America Center as a dedicated rehabilitation space addressing the issue of virtual social media addiction.   2.  I have had the opportunity to work in clinical, research, development work and education settings in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia.  Communities are looking for ways to address addiction of different kinds. Virtual social media/electronic platforms are some of the immediate tools whose use we need ...