Thu, Apr 2 at 7 p.m. | 60 minutes
Clubs: Member-led conversations around books, films, etc.
In response to COVID-19, Patricia Kim, a long-standing Olio professor and social worker by trade, has offered her services directly to the Think Olio community.
Patricia will be focusing on mental health during isolation, and providing a space to discuss our anxieties at the moment. We’ll also be sharing coping skills and tools that can help us get through these times.
These counseling sessions will happen once a week for groups of up to 15 people at a time, starting this Thursday, April 2nd at 7:00pm.
Housemates, partners, individuals and anyone who feels called to this kind of meeting are encouraged to sign-up. We are so lucky to have Patricia offering her amazing listening skills, compassion and therapeutic tools. We hope you’ll take advantage of the opportunity.
Patricia Kim received her MFA from Columbia University and teaches Composition and Literature classes at Baruch College while completing a novel. She is a licensed social worker who worked for the Mental Health Service Corps. (MHSC) under New York's Thrive initiative and is now a reentry social worker on Rikers Island, providing services to the population of patients on Rikers with serious mental
Zoom link will be sent upon signup.
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Classically, the liberal arts, were the education considered essential for a free person to take an active part in civic life. To counter a humanities that has been institutionalized and dehumanized we infuse critical thinking, openness, playfulness, and compassion into our learning experience.
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