Narrative Ideas Meets the School Context: A Conversation with Sadekha Ismail Shekh An interview conversation with Sadekha Ismail Shekh that documents her experience of using narrative ideas and practices in the school context. Sadekha is a fellow at the Ummeed Inclusion Fellowship Program. As a part of the fellowship program, she works at the Vanita…

Hope in the World of Dominant Ideas: Using Letter Writing Practices By Pallavi Raikar & Trishala Kanakia, Narrative Therapist , Ummeed Mental Health Team What are dominant ideas?  We live and are born in a world full of ideas. These ideas may influence us, our ways of being, our mental health and physical health, our…

Sometimes stories are destroyed, and sometimes they are never uttered in the first place; either way something very large is irrevocably missing from our collective histories. – Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House  Some stories remain unspoken, shrouded in layers of silence. And the stories we do hear about gender are often limiting and…

On 31st March, 2021, the Mental Health team at Ummeed Child Development Center launched a zine called ‘Map for times when The Hopelessness Visits’. It’s an activity document you can engage with to have conversations about hope and hopelessness in your work with people and communities or for times in your life when hopelessness visits….

In our conversations with children and young people, for many of them, school is a space they have constant access to, that can help establish notions of what safety or a sense of belongingness feels like. Schools and classrooms are striving to be more nurturing and safer spaces for children, and the team at Apni…

In what seems like a lifetime away, this time last year the conference team at Ummeed Child Development Center was gearing up for our Second International Narrative Conference – Weaving our Voices, 2020. It was six days of witnessing narrative ideas shape in diverse contexts, meeting our narrative community from across the country and the…