For the past few weeks, King David Victory Park has engaged in a Mental Health Awareness Programme.
This programme focused on the learners, staff and parent body being mindful – relating, writing, exercising, having self-compassion and being grateful for the ability to cope with the pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the school, anxiety and stress has begun to creep in and plague people daily as they fear for their safety with the increasing infections in the country.
“Some want to hide away from all the bad, and others are active and fearless, ready to help and make a difference. Everyone deals with stress, anxiety and fear and mobilises their fight or flight responses differently,” said marketing manager Nirvana Rogers.
She continued that high threats in the environment connect us to feelings of an imminent threat going back to our early lives associated with anxieties of persecution and fragmentation of self.
The school salutes its educators and learners who are braving the storm and being vulnerable, self-compassionate, finding meaning, embracing the suffering and connecting through the shared humanity of the pandemic experience.
“It helps to note that the world will eventually return to normal and this is not forever. In the meantime, just keep doing your best,” concluded Rogers.
