Strength TogetHER 8- Session 1

 


7th July,2021.

“Be a women who can support other women, provide compliments to each other, give words of encouragement & empower each other.”

LOKOPAKAR is an organization which aims for youth development.  Lokopakar has a variety of programs going on among which is Strength TogetHER. Strength TogetHER is one of the programs which is created for girls and young women of different mindset and background. Lokopakar provides us a virtual safe place where we can share an emotional bond, feelings and our stories.     

 With the motive of peer-to-peer support and encouraging each other’s stories, we came up with a new Cohort (Cohort-8) of Strength TogetHER. On July 7th, we had our first session i.e Introductory Session with the active participation of 20+ members which took place via zoom at 4:00 pm. 

Firstly, our participants were given brief knowledge about Lokopakar and the number of programs running under the organization.Team members of Lokopakar talked about their journey and how Strength TogetHER has impacted their life. 

Then, I gave my introduction and talked about my journey of Lokopakar from participant to cohort coordinator. I’m Anuska Devkota,Co-ordinator of cohort 8. I started off my journey as participants of Cohort 6. After giving my introduction, all other participants who were present in zoom were asked to give their introduction along with the topic they want to discuss and their expectations from this program. Among all the responses , here are some of the topics-: 

1. Overthinking

 2. Hypersensitivity 

3. Will I Make It in life or not? 

4. Gender Role

 5. Menstruation

 6. Time Management 

7. Overcoming Fear 

8. Teenage Problem

 9. Self Growth 

10. Overthinking  

11. Physical Insecurities 

12. Anger Management 

13. Mental Health

 Expectations from the programs -: 

1. Connection and confidence build up. 

2. Enhance speaking ability. 

3. Sharing stories and learning from the stories. 

To add more excitement we decided to play house hunt. It was fun as well as an opportunity to know each other’s favorite things.  

 By the time we came to the end of the session we decided to take a group screenshot so that we can remember our first session forever. We ended our session at 5:40 pm.

Written by - Anushka Devkota (Cohort coordinator)


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