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Healing Our Earth
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South Asian Health Action
Mental Health Awareness Week 2026

Mental Health Awareness

Action for yourself, for someone else, and for all of us
💜 For Yourself 💛 For Someone Else 🌍 For ALL of Us
📅 Sunday 17th May 2026
🕑 2pm BST Onwards
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1 in 4 People will face a mental
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17 May Mental Health Awareness Week
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Awareness is where it begins.
Action is where it changes.

— Healing Our Earth · Mental Health Awareness 2026
The Framework

Three kinds of action

Mental health awareness alone isn't enough. This episode is built around three concrete, meaningful actions — each one within your reach.

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Action One

For Yourself

You cannot pour from an empty cup. This episode gives you practical, expert-backed tools to protect and restore your own mental wellbeing — from managing anxiety and burnout to rebuilding emotional resilience. Your mental health matters. It is not selfish to prioritise it.

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Action Two

For Someone Else

Someone in your life is quietly struggling right now. You may not know it yet. Learn how to recognise the signs, what to say when you don't know what to say, and how to offer support that genuinely helps — without burning yourself out in the process.

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Action Three

For ALL of Us

Mental health is a global, cultural, and community issue — not just a personal one. Cross-cultural perspectives from India, the UK, and across the world will help us understand how stigma, community, and connection shape mental health for all of us, and what we can do to change it.

What You Will Learn

Expert wisdom you can
use straight away

Our speakers bring clinical expertise, lived experience, and compassionate insight — all focused on giving you something real to take away.

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Understanding Your Mind

How mental health works — and why anxiety, stress and low mood are not weaknesses but signals worth listening to.

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Practical Self-Care Tools

Actionable daily strategies for managing emotional overwhelm, rebuilding resilience and protecting your energy.

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Supporting Someone You Love

The exact words to use — and what not to say — when someone you care about is struggling with their mental health.

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Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Honest, inclusive conversations about mental health across South Asian, British, and global communities.

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Community & Connection

Why human connection is one of the most powerful medicines — and how isolation amplifies every mental health challenge.

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Breaking the Stigma

Open, courageous conversations that normalise mental health for every culture, every age, and every generation.

Organising this event

Healing Our Earth — your global health platform

This free episode is organised by Healing Our Earth, in proud partnership with two extraordinary organisations who share one mission: health for all.

Healing Our Earth
Event Organiser

Healing Our Earth

A global platform for health, healing, and human connection — bringing expert voices and lived experience to communities worldwide, free for everyone.

In proud partnership with
Rotary E-Club of Organ Donation UK
Official Partner
Rotary E-Club of Organ Donation UK

A virtual Rotary club under Rotary in Great Britain & Ireland — uniting transplant recipients, living donors, and medical specialists in a shared mission: no one should die waiting for an organ.

South Asian Health Action
Official Partner
South Asian Health Action

Championing health equity, preventive care, and informed choices across South Asian communities in the UK — with a particular focus on diabetes, kidney disease, and organ and stem cell donation.

Our Speakers

Meet the voices joining us

Clinicians, mental health advocates, and voices from lived experience — united for one powerful afternoon.

KM Kirit Mistry
Episode Producer

Kirit Mistry

Founder, South Asian Health Action (S.A.H.A)

AS Dr Amrita Sharma
Lead Anchor

Dr Amrita Sharma

Opening the programme · 2pm BST

HK Dr Honey Kalaria
Resident Co-Host

Dr Honey Kalaria

Co-hosting throughout the programme

HM Hiral Merchant
Resident Panelist

Hiral Merchant

Panel contributor throughout

AA Dr Anjali Agarwal
Resident Panelist

Dr Anjali Agarwal

Panel contributor throughout

AG Anukul Goswami
Lead Panelist

Anukul Goswami

Lead panel contributor throughout

SS Sandeep Saib
2:10pm BST

Sandeep Saib

Lived & Living Experience · Mental Health Advocate

DS Davinder Singh Dhesi
2:30pm BST

Davinder Singh Dhesi

Educational Psychologist · Community of Practice, Leicester & Schools in England

MP Rtn Mukesh Parmar
2:50pm BST

Rtn Mukesh Parmar

Chair, Mental Health Awareness & Suicide Prevention Committee

GD Gurkarishma Dhillon
3:00pm BST

Gurkarishma Dhillon

Culturally Competent Healthcare for Underserved Populations in the UK

SG Shobhna Gupta
3:20pm BST

Shobhna Gupta

Pain and Mental Wellness: Pathbreaking Treatments

OF Omosola Fiberesima
4:00pm BST

Omosola Fiberesima

From Overwhelm to Clarity: The Power of Reflection in Challenging Times

LG Rtn Lal Goel
4:30pm BST

Rtn Lal Goel

Founder & Charter President, Rotary Club of Organ Donation International

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