The cycle of workshops "Colorful and gray thoughts, emotions and behavior" in which she participated has ended over 70 participants from all over Croatia. We were educated on interesting and current topics, heard a lot information, guidelines and experiences and raised awareness of the importance of mental health care. We hope they will each of the participants take with them what they needed from this cycle.
The topics of the workshops were:
Self-destructiveness: self-criticism under the guise of perfectionism, guilt and self-anger, self-punishing behaviors in everyday life, intense and exaggerated reactions to failure and mistakes, learned helplessness, self-blame and withdrawal from society; Thursday, November 10, from 6 to 7 p.m.
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Digital depression: how technology has affected cognitive, emotional and social skills individual, what hidden messages we try to send using various social functions networks and how this affects a person's emotional state in the long term; the phenomenon of fictional audiences, unattainable standards of beauty and lack of control in spending time in the virtual world; Tuesday, November 22, from 6 to 7 p.m.
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Fears, worries and boundaries: the neurobiology of fear and life in stressful circumstances; fear of the future fear of abandonment, fear of death and aging, existential worries, fear of various kinds of loss (with preventive fear of connection); it's important to know what you want, but it's even more important to know what you need - how verbalize one's own needs and set boundaries in relationships and with oneself; Tuesday, November 29 from 6 p.m until 7 p.m
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Overthinking: Fighting automatic negative thoughts and learning to work through them, how it works the human mind and what are errors in thinking, how to deal with the vicious circle of negative thoughts - when we can do it ourselves, and when we need help; Tuesday, December 6, from 6 to 7 p.m.
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Comments of workshop participants:
- "Too few of us, as professional associates and people who are constantly in contact with children, are educated about Fr self-destructiveness, self-injury, and today there are more and more children and young people with these problems because their parents they are not aware of the things that mirror them."
- "It was useful to me both professionally and privately. Until now, I have not had the opportunity to be familiar with this much content in this topic. The lecture encouraged me to further inform myself about the topic, but also gave me ideas for some activities at school (workshops and similar)."
- "Lots of information, interesting presentation and way of presentation. It can be seen that the lecture is experiential and not ex catedra and I like that."
- "It's really good when things that don't need to be further complicated are simplified. Kudos!"
- "Thank you! Pragma Association amazes me with its activities and I follow your work with sincere admiration. Mrs. Marija is extremely nice and professional and inspires trust, therefore the content of her I gladly follow the lectures and consider them authoritative. Best regards!"
- "Very good, interesting and professional, you can feel the practical experience."