Activities & Events

MIND SPACE CLINIC offers a variety of programs as follows:

    • MINDFULNESS
      *Mindfulness* is an important skill that can help us maintain focus on our tasks, improve our sense of happiness, and enable us to better manage our thoughts and emotions.*Mindfulness* helps us increase our awareness of ourselves, as well as events around us.

      The workshop will address various issues such as:
      • What is Mindfulness?
      • What are its benefits?
      • How can we practise it?
      • Where can we apply it?
      • Practising mindfulness in relationships.
      • Savoring.
      Mindfulness is a 4 hour workshop that will be held in 2 sessions of about an hour and a half each, with a short break in between.
    • Resilience Training (Mental Fitness)
      Mindspace Clinic has always strived to help you develop better life skills and promote positive mental health. We all would benefit from developing better coping skills, which in turn help improve our “resilience” (mental toughness).

      Along those lines, we bring to you an interactive workshop on “RESILIENCE TRAINING”, also known as “Mental Fitness”.
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      This workshop is conducted over 3 sessions of 1.5 hours each, on 3 consecutive Saturday evenings.
      Session 1: What is Resilience? Why do we need it?
      Session 2: How to improve our mental fitness?
      Session 3: Practical applications of resilience.
      All the 3 sessions are in continuity. Hence, it is mandatory to attend all of them. The course fees are Rs.3000/- for all the 3 modules combined. We hope you shall be able to make the most of this opportunity.
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    • Parenting Skills
      MIND SPACE CLINIC is pleased to announce a series of seminars on ‘Parenting Skills’, starting February 2017. These seminars are intended to be a handy guideline for parents on dealing with some common, but often challenging, issues that parents commonly encounter with their kids. We intend to address some of these issues & suggest simple coping strategies to deal with them effectively. We will be conducting 6 sessions, on consecutive Saturday afternoons, from 12 noon to 1:30 pm.
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      The schedule of sessions is as follows:
      Module 1: Exam Stress
      Module 2: Discipline (make and follow rules)
      Module 3: Communication and Peer Pressure
      Module 4: Oppositional Behaviour
      Module 5: Sex Education
      Module 6: Parenting in the Digital Age (how to use gadgets in a productive way) Exam Stress

      You may register for all the sessions at once or each individual session separately.
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    • Alcohol Anonymous
      MIND SPACE CLINIC is happy to inform you that we shall be conducting ‘Alcohol Anonymous’ meetings every Saturday morning from 9:30am to 10:30am at our premises.These meetings are free for all and meant to help understand the challenges of alcohol consumption, get control over drinking, as well as continue to stay away from alcohol for good. We encourage you & your friends to take advantage of this opportunity to help yourselves & your dear ones.
    • Dealing with Dementia
      MIND SPACE CLINIC is starting support group meetings for relatives & caregivers of patients with Dementia & other cognitive deficits. The support group meetings are to be carried out in a group setting, with family members & caregivers of other patients suffering from dementia as well. The benefits are multiple, & cumulative over several meetings.
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      They give an opportunity to the caregivers to ventilate their concerns, distress & difficulties in dealing with the afflicted individuals.These meetings are intended to educate the caregivers of patients with dementia about the nature of the illness, learn from the experiences of other caregivers, build a sense of kinship with others, develop new coping skills to deal with in a better way the multitude challenges that the illness may pose, teaching the caregivers various life-skill-retraining & cognitive-retraining techniques, thus making targeted efforts towards improving the quality of life of individuals afflicted with this chronic, progressively deteriorating ailment.

       

      With every such meeting , we hope to help bring about better acceptability of the condition, and teach new skills & strategies to deal with it.

      For the sake of maintaining certain standards & facilitating group logistics, prior registration is preferable.

      These meetings will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from 8:30pm to 9:30pm.
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    • Assertiveness Training
      Assertiveness is the ability to communicate opinions, thoughts, needs, and feelings in a direct, honest, and appropriate manner. Assertiveness involves standing up for own rights in a manner that does not offend others or deny the rights of others. When one is assertive, there is more control over life. It is also less likely that other people will take undue advantage of them. This session is designed for those who are unable to assert themselves owing to lifelong unassertive practises and beliefs.
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      All of us have our own style of relating to others. These are usually passive, aggressive or assertive.
      In this 4 session training program, the aim is to improve assertiveness as a communication style, thus improving interpersonal relationships as well as taking care individual needs along with those of others. A typical session involves an understanding of corrective techniques and practising them using real life scenarios within the safety of a guided session.Module 1: What is Assertiveness?
      Passive, Aggressive, Assertive Communication Style
      Myths about Assertiveness
      The Effects of Being Unassertive
      What stops us from being assertive?
      Unassertive thoughts
      Our Assertive Rights

       

      Module 2: How to change your unhelpful beliefs
      Thought Diaries and Behavioural Experiments
      Assertiveness Techniques
      Relaxation Techniques

      Module 3: Say “NO”: unhelpful beliefs changed to helpful beliefs about saying No
      Techniques of saying NO
      Giving Compliments
      Taking Compliments

      Module 4: Receiving Criticism: types, common unhealthy responses, assertive responses, tips
      Giving Criticism
      Cope with Disappointment
      Putting it all Together
      Rehearse and practise

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    • Making A Difference – Cognitive Stimulation Therapy
      Cognitive stimulation Therapy Program is for individuals with memory deficits / mild cognitive impairments and mild to moderate dementia. The program aims to improve the Quality of Life of individuals by actively stimulating and engaging them in activities while providing an optimal learning environment and the social benefits of a group.
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      The program is a 7 week program with 2 sessions per week and it uses a multisensory stimulation approach. A typical session would involve an introduction, a look at current news stories with discussion and the sharing of opinions. Listening to or singing a song and then a main topic which will bring in as many of the senses as possible. A topic such as physical games may involve a team game such as skittles where scoring can be kept to prompt some number skills as well as physical exercise.Module 1: Ice breaking Activities

       

      Module 2: Auditory Stimulation – Various indoor / outdoor sounds are used to give visual and auditory stimulation to refamiliarize the group with common everyday sounds.

      Module 3: Revisiting Young Days – Activities focus on creating a memory diary of childhood.

      Module 4: To the Heart through the Stomach – Brainstorming food categories, tasting foods that act as memory triggers, recognizing fruits and vegetables.

      Module 5: Current Affairs – activities focus on recent national and local newspapers. Focus is to stimulate conversation on news, views attitudes about current issues.

      Module 6: Past To Present – Activities involving recognizing familiar faces / scenes

      Module 7: Word Association – Stimulation of associative patterns by words

      Module 8: Being Creative – Module focuses on engaging individuals in creative activities like clay modeling, cooking etc

      Module 9: Object Classification – Revisiting the categorization of common every day things like things found in kitchen, items of clothing, means of transport etc.

      Module 10: Orientation – Activities focus on important past events of personal importance to changes in name of states, political changes etc.

      Module 11: Money Matters – Role Play situations involving use of money of various denominations.

      Module 12: Number Games – Group games involving the recognition and use of numbers

      Module 13: Word Games – Word identification games which involve the recognition and use of letters and words.

      Module 14: Team Quiz & Summing up

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    • Support / Psychoeducation Group for caregivers of individuals with Schizophrenia
      Schizophrenia is a debilitating disorder. The truly tragic fact is that the family members often suffer as much, if not more, from the behavioural & social symptoms that the patient is afflicted by. Much of the distress that the patient & the relatives / caregivers experience is on account of the interpersonal conflicts they have due to poor understanding of the reasons of the maladaptive behaviour.
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      Often, neither of the parties are to blame. But, both manifest frustration in their behaviour.This can often be alleviated, or prevented even, if the relatives are made aware about the nature of the illness, and the reasons for the altered thought process & the altered behaviour.

       

      These group meetings are meant to educate all the family members / caregivers about schizophrenia. Our doctors & counsellors explain in detail various aspects about the symptoms, behavioural aspects, social & occupational difficulties that the illness causes to the individual suffering from it, as well as its impact on the family & caregivers.

      They also help understand the various strategies & ways of coping with the challenges that the patient & the family face on account of the illness.

      The support & shared experience that the group members derive from each other contributes significantly to increased confidence in dealing with the illness.

      These group meetings are held on the 3rd Saturday of every month, from 5pm to 6pm, at Mindspace Clinic.

      These meetings are free for all the caregivers, but, preferably, with prior reservation / appointment.

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  • Group therapy / psychoeducation / self management program for individuals with SCHIZOPHRENIA.
    This program is aimed at helping these individuals to better understand their affliction & deal with the various challenges that it poses for them.
    It is a 6 week / module program. Limited candidates to be included on a first come first serve basis.
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    Module 1:
    WHAT DO I HAVE EXACTLY?
    Signs
    Symptoms
    Causes
    ComplicationsModule 2:
    HOW DO I MANAGE IT?
    Seeking help
    Treatment
    Psychoeducation
    Therapy

     

    Module 3:
    HOW DOES IT IMPACT ME?
    Ongoing illness
    Cognitive deficit
    Social impact
    Professional difficulties

    Module 4:
    MANAGING TRUST & EMOTIONAL ISSUES
    Challenges with inability to trust
    Trust building
    Reestablishing reality contact
    Emotional reaction to symptoms & illness

    Module 5:
    SOCIALISATION
    Problem solving
    Social skills rehabilitation
    Relearning communication skills

    Module 6:
    SELF IMPROVEMENT & SELF MANAGEMENT
    Managing cognition
    Recognising the areas of impact
    Developing better coping skills
    Better compliance to treatment

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Please contact 022-28015757 / 9930730790 to register / for further details.