An interactive workshop to reflect on Yaran's experience, achievements and challenges working therapeutically with refugees and asylum seekers.
This workshop is open to everyone, and you don’t have to be a mental health professional to attend.
The Workshop
An interesting, informative and experiential workshop with Yaran North West, hosted and supported by Rethink Rebuild Society. Many of Yaran’s team of therapists are professionals who have experienced life as a refugee or an asylum seeker themselves, have gone on to retrain or re-qualify as therapists, and rebuild their lives in the UK. Yaran will share some of their challenges and achievements and some in-depth insights from their work. You will also be involved in discussions and experiential exercises to highlight some of the challenges, strengths and sparkly moments of our refugee and asylum seeker communities. Stories are powerful!
Speakers
Parvin Emampour
A founding member of Yaran and Yaran director. Parvin will share some distilled wisdoms of her experience as an asylum seeker and a trauma focussed therapist.
Reem Farajallah
Yaran therapist, talking about her experience as a Palestinian working with refugees and people seeking asylum.
Anita Jafari
Yaran therapist, will give a potted history of our work and her journey to Yaran.
Faezeh Doulabi
Faezeh runs Yaran’s art workshops and classes across 3 sites in Greater Manchester. She will talk about art therapy, craft and mental health.
Rokhsana Nowroozi
Yaran director and therapist will be facilitating the experiential exercises.
About Yaran
Yaran Northwest (www.yarannorthwest.com) provides mental health support to refugees and asylum seekers through one-to-one therapy, group work and recovery classes. Yaran has been providing mental health support in local communities for nearly 10 years now, all their services are offered in clients’ mother-tongue, in particular Farsi and Arabic, but also Kurdish, Turkish and Urdu. Yaran understand the importance of holistic recovery and our groups include a variety of activities such as art classes, yoga sessions, dance and movement therapy, psychoeducation groups - (Living Life to The Full) and parenting support. Through this workshop, you will get to know Yaran and the work they do. They want to get to know you too!
