September 2-3, 2025, at Alfahad Hotel Hat Yai

Target audiences: Frontline Practitioners Working to Support Vulnerable Groups

This module transitions from personal exploration (Module 1) to building concrete skills for helping others. It focuses on the interpersonal dynamics between practitioners and vulnerable groups, emphasizing community-based mental health and long-term reintegration.

Core Competencies Developed

The curriculum is designed to build practitioners’ capabilities across three key areas:

• Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding psychological wounds, how to safely disclose trauma, and effective coping mechanisms.
• Mental Health Systems Advocacy: Analyzing the impact of violence on mental health and actively participating in designing community-based mental health activities.
• Holistic Reintegration: Developing skills to help vulnerable individuals restore their self-worth and successfully reintegrate into their families, communities, and broader social dimensions.

Session Deliverables

Day 1: Community Mental Health & Relationship Building

The first day focuses on establishing trust and mastering basic emotional management.

• Establishment of Safe Environment: Activities to create positive relationships and a safe learning space through shared group regulations .
• Deep Exploration of Experience: Using Storytelling and Deep Listening to process life experiences from the past month.
• Stress Management & Self-Awareness: Identifying physical and mental stress signals and learning fundamental self-care mechanisms.
• Creative Drama 1 (Sculpture of Stress): Using theatrical techniques to visualize and manage stress through the “Head-Heart-Hand” connection .
• Emotional Management “Market”: Four practical learning stations:
  • Safe Place: Finding internal security.
  • Safe Person: Identifying trusted support figures.
  • Grounding & Mindfulness: Breathwork and staying present.
  • Regulation: Techniques like Body Scanning and the 5-4-3-2-1 method.
• Special Evening Session: Creative Drama 2, focusing on understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and psychoeducation through art.

Day 2: Recovery, Resilience, and Field Application

The second day focuses on reintegration strategies and professional counseling skills.

• Life Roadmap: Participants utilize the Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) framework through a “Life Roadmap” activity. They draw their life journey to identify Character Strengths and the resilience factors: I AM, I CAN, and I HAVE
• Roadmap 2 (Creative Drama 3): Reenacting life changes and stress management through a three-scene play to facilitate healing .
• Community Reintegration & Psychoeducation: Learning the Reintegration process—restoring social and mental functions—and providing diagnostic/treatment information to families.
• Goal Setting (WOOP Coaching): A final synthesis where practitioners apply the WOOP model:
  • Wish: Identifying a desired goal.
  • Outcome: Visualizing the best result.
  • Obstacle: Identifying potential barriers.
  • Plan: Creating concrete steps to overcome obstacles.

Assessment of Learning

The module utilizes Authentic Assessment to ensure practitioners can apply these skills in real-world scenarios.

• Formative Evaluation: Continuous assessment throughout the two-day workshop via summarizing and reflecting on learning outcomes.
• Role-Play Evaluation: Assessing practitioner competence in individual counseling, providing constructive feedback, and long-term outcome assessment.
• Synthesis of Practice: Evaluating the practitioners’ ability to translate workshop knowledge into a concrete “Action Plan” for their return to the community.
• Target Outcome: The successful participant is defined as someone who understands, can care for, and can provide preliminary mental health counseling to vulnerable groups within their local area.