In this workshop, the basic concepts for understanding illness and social health norms are explained and your own personal relationship to them (e.g. internalized ableism) is analysed.

In addition to group and individual exercises, the workshop also provides space and opportunity to connect with other affected people, to feel understood and to learn from each other by sharing everyday examples and experiences. In a protected environment, participants can reflect on their own relationship to illness with all its ambivalences and contradictions. Supportive psychological techniques are taught to perceive and regulate feelings in order to deepen a compassionate attitude towards one's own needs.

Throughout the workshop, encouragement and empowerment are central aspects. The workshop is aimed at (neurodivergent) students with invisible physical illnesses and/or mental health impairments. Let us be our true weird selves.

• Organizer: Márcia Elisa Moser, contact person of the anti-discrimination office TU Darmstadt
• Speaker: Carolin Weber (she/you)
• Period/Time: 14.00 – 18.00 hrs
• Format: Online event
• Zoom link: will be sent by e-mail after registration and confirmation of free places
• Target group: Students of the TU Darmstadt
• Contact & registration: antidiskriminierung@tu-darmstadt.de

Further information:

The speaker Caroline Weber is a qualified psychologist, sex therapist and works as a consultant and freelance lecturer in Cologne. Her seminars on chronic invisible illnesses draw equally on professional expertise and lived experience. Her work is characterized by an attitude that can be described as radical gentleness. Learn more

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