Self LOVE – Self STIGMA Workshop by Beyond Stigma

Experience a powerful workshop focused on the journey from self-stigma to self-worth.  ‘I’m unlovable’ ‘I’m not good enough’ ‘they think there is something wrong with me’ ‘I don’t deserve happiness’ – if any or all of these resonate with you and those you work with, this workshop is for you. 

The workshop is designed based on Wakakosha, an evidence-based peer-led youth intervention combining the cognitive-awareness approach of inquiry-based stress reduction (IBSR) together with meditation, creativity, music and poetry to identify self-stigma beliefs in the areas of judgement, disclosure, body, sexuality, guilt, shame, adherence and more. 

This workshop offers a unique taster of this programme designed to increase your awareness and understanding of internal stigma, it’s causes and consequences; to provide a practical opportunity to work on your own internal stigma and to brainstorm how this and other approaches might be used within organisations across the world. The result of working on your internal stigma? Confidence, empowerment, self-love, forgiveness, peace. Change starts within, and this workshop will be led by the Zvandiri and Beyond Stigma team from Zimbabwe.

Facilitators: 

1. Nadine Ferris France, Beyond Stigma
2. Zvandiri Moud Chinembiri, Beyond Stigma
3. Vimbainashe Jazi, Zvandiri
4. Eliza Gwenzi, Zvandiri 
5. Sungano Bondayi, Zvandiri
6. Purity Nyatondo, Zvandiri