Category: External Events

This Training Program was conducted for the Officers In-charge from the Police and Security Sector. The topics chosen included:

1. Team Building
2. Team Building

Team Building

Team building activities were a great way to help the delegates learn to effectively work with their co-workers. It allowed the officers to get involved in the activities, discuss relevant situations where building a team was necessary. Characteristics of different members in a team were discussed and their importance in the team was highlighted upon. Personality scale was used to understand the strengths of each member.

The following were the learning outcome.

1. Teams are more important for organizational/business success. Individual success depends on teamwork.
2. Teamwork is often inadequately defined and/or misunderstoo
3. Difference between a team and a group. Difference between situational and transformational leadership. Effective teams are defined by their achievements and effective teams realize that good intentions, effort, and behaviors are only important when they contribute to team achievements.

Facilitator: Tanaya Chatterjee

Stress Management and its Effects on Performance at Work

This Training program was designed keeping in mind the various work stressors that employees from the Police and Security Sector endure in the form of Occupational Hazards. We used several team building exercises and trust exercises’ to warm up the session. The entire program was primarily activity based.

The delegates learned skills on the recognition of work stressors and learnt valuable tips on keeping work stressors in check.

These were also instructed on Relaxation techniques and various handouts and Standardized Tests were used to access the delegates stress levels and responses.

This Training Program was a grand success. We look forward to having a long association with the Kolkata Police hence forth.

Facilitator: Michelle Manuel

Stress Management

The level of stress is comparable as per the individuals’ affinity towards taking stress. Even slightest affair can give a stress to people . There are no universal situations to define which can give what level of stress to individuals . The mind set at times always help a person and his environment to go by managing his stress level , it also depends on how self analyzing factors are there and how far or to what extent the person is available to adapt new situations and stop taking irrelevant stress out of it rather there the solution can be to turn off the critical stressful situation , take a break for some time and then get back to the same in a proper way.

Facilitator: Sangita Sarkar

The various organizational stressors that lead towards heightening stress and stress reactions were discussed. The subjective nature of stress was discussed in context of the unique combination of Psychological, Behavioral and Physiological stress reaction that any individual experiences. The participants assessed their own dominant pattern of stress reactions and their level of stress – gaining an insight into the various consequences of the same.

Facilitator: Pompi Banerjee

The Delegates were instructed in effective methods of Stress Management. A demonstration on Relaxation Training was conducted at the workshop. This session was well received and taught the participants how to put into practice various skills they learnt on stress management.

Facilitator: Michelle Manuel

School atmosphere is differently experienced by different individuals. As we are growing up, it is imperative that we are aware of our strengths and weaknesses while choosing the field we want to pursue. Therefore, a career counseling session is much of a help. The session gives a holistic approach from, intelligence, intellect, aptitude, personality and interest areas. It reiterates the fact that “no career is a wrong one”. Imagine how ease achieving dreams would be if we know our interests and strengths already. Also working on our weaknesses thus making us a more competent individual. It furthermore transforms as you grow in a position with evolution in responsibilities and tackling new situations. Career counseling in such arenas help in building capabilities and leaves no stone unturned in ensuring that with our independence in doing a task, each task for us becomes a relatively easier, thereby bringing satisfaction and contentment in our chosen profession.

A thorough career counseling session was conducted with students of the eminent school, Sri Sri Academy. The principal very enthusiastically assisted the Caring Minds counselors to conduct a session for parents to help them understand the importance of career counseling for their children and the process of the same. Following which the psychological tests were administered on the group of class VIII children and individual reports were generated. Possible career choices were mentioned with the intelligence level, interest areas, personality etc.

On the 15th of September, Caring Minds observed WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION WEEK.

A Flash Mob took the stage in a few of the eminent malls of the city such as Forum Mall, City Centre and South City International. Our congress was joined by Celebrities who graced us with their presence and participation in the awareness campaign. (Football star P.K Banerjee, Eminent Painter, Wasim Kapoor and Actor Chaiti Ghoshal) The purpose of this Flash Mob was to bring people together to prevent suicide and to convey the message that we care. One need not suffer in silence. There is help out there.

On Saturday, 28th June Caring Minds conducted a workshop on basic Sports Psychology at The Tollygunge Club, under Protouch Sports, for children (golfers) between the ages of 7 and 15. We covered the important skills required to improve their performance in golf including having a good attitude, being motivated, having short term and long term goals, being focused, practicing mental imagery and inspiring them to give it their best ‘shot.’ The workshop was highly interactive and the modalities like games, worksheets, videos were used to reinforce the concepts covered.

Workshop on “Taming Tantrums” with Teachers of Busy Ants and Advanced Progressive Montessori

On 10th May, 2014 team Caring Minds got to host a highly interactive workshop with the enthusiastic and energetic teachers of Busy Ants and Advanced Progressive Montessori. The teachers of the two Montessori schools handle children between the age groups of 2.5 years to 6 years.

During the activity filled workshop the different reasons behind children’s tantrums were explored and strategies to handle them were discussed with behavioural examples from the real life examples of the participants.

Sports Nutrition

Sports nutrition is one of the most neglected spheres of nutrition studies. People assume that sports is all about fitness and as such nutrition studies. People assume that sports is all about fitness and as such nutrition may not have a very important role to play in it. However, the All India Tennis Association and Caring Minds have taken an initiative to correct this misconception. In a recent workshop conducted by the All India Tennis Association, tennis coaches from all over the country were educated about The role of Nutrition in Sports by Clinical Nutritionist Juhi Mimani. The key areas of focus were Hydration, Pre and Post Match meals and Supplements and their importance in helping sportsmen to enhance their stamina and performance.

Sports Psychology

On 13th September 2015, Caring Minds conducted a workshop on mental training for 200 tennis coaches as a part of the 8th National Coaches Workshop organized by the All India Tennis Association at Vedic Village. The workshop was facilitated by Life skill Trainer Joita Shah, assisted by Disha Mussadi. The participants were introduced to the concept of Sports Psychology with special focus on Mental Training and its scope in Mastering Winning Minds. The methodology used was interactive and activity centric.The objective of the workshop was to enable the participants to replace conservative coaching strategies with those that are more progressive and holistic in approach.

On the 28th of March 2014 Team Caring Minds went to Swami Vivekananda State Police Academy in Barrackpore to deliver a Stress Management workshop to two groups of 300 police cadets. The Deputy Inspector General of Police Shri Asit Pal met the group on arrival and discussed some of the stressors of police life with the team. The workshop was mainly activity-based and encouraged the cadets to mould their minds to battle stressors they could not otherwise banish. The workshops were highly interactive and were well-received.