Over the past six weeks, participants of GROW Batch #1 have embarked on a journey that was not always easy. Together, they explored grief, reflected on personal experiences, and created space for emotions that are often difficult to express. Through creative activities, guided reflections, movement, and shared conversations, participants were invited to approach their experiences

The Zine Workshop hosted by Talk Mental Health Indonesia on Friday evening, May 15th, invited ten participants to bring three photographs that held special meaning in their lives. Not just ordinary photographs, but fragments of memory that carried emotions, stories, and pieces of people they once were. One photo represented someone or something they had

In GROW Session 5, there was no new material introduced. No additional theories, no pressure to “fix” anything within ourselves. Instead, we simply sat together with everything that had already been carried throughout the journey and slowly began asking: Out of all of this, what actually matters most to you? Session 5 became one of

GROW Session 4 invited participants to step outside their usual space in Nitiprayan and reconnect with nature, reflection, and community at Kebon Tamantirto. In this fourth gathering of GROW Batch 1, participants explored healing through nature-based reflection, River Cards, storytelling, and collective care in a warm and grounding environment. This session became a journey of

GROW Session 3 invited participants to slowly reconnect with the body and recognize that grief, stress, and emotional experiences are not only carried in the mind, but often held within the body as well. Sometimes, loss, overwhelm, or unresolved experiences stay with us through tension in the shoulders, tightness in the chest, exhaustion, numbness, restlessness,

Relationship Check-Up is important because relationships are a big part of our mental health, especially during university years. This is often the phase where many people begin forming long-term patterns in communication, boundaries, conflict, and trust. At the same time, university life can also be emotionally complex. Many young adults are navigating academic pressure, identity

In GROW Session 2, we explored the theme of releasing emotions without shame—an experience that may sound simple, but can feel confusing, awkward, or even heavy in practice. At first, “emotional release” may sound like something that should feel relieving, freeing, or natural. But in reality, many of us do not experience it that way