Mental Health Awareness
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Sunday · 2pm BST
The world comes together
Sunday 17th May · 2pm BST
Free for everyone, everywhere · No registration required
Awareness is where it begins.
Action is where it changes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Understanding Your Mind
How mental health works — and why anxiety, stress and low mood are not weaknesses but signals worth listening to.
Practical Self-Care Tools
Actionable daily strategies for managing emotional overwhelm, rebuilding resilience and protecting your energy.
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.
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Honest, inclusive conversations about mental health across South Asian, British, and global communities.
Community & Connection
Why human connection is one of the most powerful medicines — and how isolation amplifies every mental health challenge.
Breaking the Stigma
Open, courageous conversations that normalise mental health for every culture, every age, and every generation.
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
A global platform for health, healing, and human connection — bringing expert voices and lived experience to communities worldwide, free for everyone.
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.
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.
Meet the voices joining us
Clinicians, mental health advocates, and voices from lived experience — united for one powerful afternoon.
Kirit Mistry
Founder, South Asian Health Action (S.A.H.A)
Dr Amrita Sharma
Opening the programme · 2pm BST
Dr Honey Kalaria
Co-hosting throughout the programme
Hiral Merchant
Panel contributor throughout
Dr Anjali Agarwal
Panel contributor throughout
Anukul Goswami
Lead panel contributor throughout
Neha Arora
Panel contributor throughout
Sandeep Saib
Lived & Living Experience · Mental Health Advocate
Davinder Singh Dhesi
Educational Psychologist · Community of Practice, Leicester & Schools in England
Rtn Mukesh Parmar
Chair, Mental Health Awareness & Suicide Prevention Committee
Gurkarishma Dhillon
Culturally Competent Healthcare for Underserved Populations in the UK
Shobhna Gupta
Pain and Mental Wellness: Pathbreaking Treatments
Omosola Fiberesima
From Overwhelm to Clarity: The Power of Reflection in Challenging Times
Emma Dolman
Mental Wellness & Inner Peace through Meditation
Rtn Lal Goel
Founder & Charter President, Rotary Club of Organ Donation International
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
For Yourself For Someone Else For ALL of Us!
Sunday 17th May 2026
2pm BST onwards
(British Summer Time)
U.S.A 9 am EDT
East Africa 4 pm EAT
Mauritius 5 pm MST
India 6.30 pm IST
Hong Kong 9 pm HKST
(All times are in BST(British Summer Time))
THANK YOU
Technical Director – Nishit Kotak
Yoga & Meditation Producer – Riddhi Vyas
Beauty Episode Producer – Vaishali Acharya
Integrated Health Producer – Dr Rajeev Gupta
Ayurveda Episode Producer – Prof Ish Sharma
General Admin/Senior Anchor – Dr Amrita Sharma
Dance Episode Producer/Anchor – Dr Honey Kalaria
Miscellaneous Episode Producer – Rotarian Lal Goel
Tai Chi and Qigong Episode Producer- Keith Sharp
Croatia Wellbeing Episodes – Aleksandra Horwood
Mauritius Coordinator/Host – Gayeetree Samboo
Kitchen Episodes Producer/Host – Seema Bhatia
Senior Resident Panelist – Anukul Goswami
U.S.A Coordinator/Host – Sharron Rose
Resident Panelist – Dr Anjali Agrawal
Creative Director – Sarita Menon
Media Team – Kesh Morjaria
HOST TEAM – Dr Amrita Sharma, Keith Sharp and Sharron Rose
BACK UP TEAM – Dr Lalit Sodha, Shivani Gollapalli,
Dr Milen Shah, Dr Wai Ching Lee, Dr Kailash Parekh MBE
Ravi Bhanot MBE & Sushma Bhanot MBE and Mina Khagram.
Facilitator Team – Miscellaneous
CHANNEL PARTNERS – Hindu Forum of Europe, MentalHealth_Connect, Hindu Matters in Britain, , Sanskruti, Simran Ahuja Official, Diwali in London, Sarita Sabrawal Official, Gyan, Sacred Mysteries, SAHA
and many more