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Catalyst 2030 Mental Health Collaboration: Acting Locally, Thinking Globally
The Catalyst 2030: Mental Health Collaboration is hosting its next webinar to explore transformative models that are contributing to building local resilience and global sustainability. Join Ingrid Otepka, Co-founder of MARA, Charlotta Trkola, homeless activist in the Austrian Anti-Poverty Network, and the student Miriam Schmutzer.
This webinar is for Catalyst’s Mental Health Collaboration members. Read more and contact them to join.
About Catalyst 2030: Mental Health Collaboration
The Catalyst 2030: Mental Health Collaboration creates opportunities for global collaboration between funder networks and mental health social entrepreneurs with tangible tools and resources, to create a systemic impact.
The collaboration seeks to educate funders, social innovators, corporates, and policymakers, on the intersectionality of mental health with other social justice systems. These include gender, climate change, education, healthcare, etc., to enhance cross-sector collaborations to integrate mental health work into other social justice issues.
Speakers
Ingrid Otepka, Co-founder of the organization MARA O Mindfully Experiencing Life, comes from the (social) education sector. She is an experienced trainer in adult education, a certified MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) trainer, and a certified CRM® (Community Resiliency Model) trainer. She works in a network and gives workshops across Europe on mindfulness and resilience to support communities in solving social challenges.
Charlotta Trkola lives and works in Vienna, Austria. For 11 years, she has worked as a facility manager in homeless care. Her focus is on caring for European poverty migrants, women, and people suffering from addiction. She is a homeless activist in the Austrian Anti-Poverty Network. Charlotta Trkola is a former MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) participant.
Miriam Schmutzer, student and chairwoman of the organization Save It: Raising awareness is the starting point for change. As an organization, we make it our mission to educate people about the possibilities of climate-friendly lifestyles and to motivate them to live more sustainably and take action. We want to achieve this goal to preserve the future opportunities of future generations. Save It is part of the participation region Mariahilf in Vienna, Austria.