The Arrecife Youth Center will host a Sensitization Conference this Friday, October 10, to commemorate World Mental Health Day, organized by the Lanzarote Health Area.
Under the slogan Stopping to Heal, the event will offer an afternoon of learning, reflection, and community well-being, open to all citizens. Activities will begin at 5:00 p.m. with the workshop Stopping to Heal: Mindfulness in Community, taught by Victoria Chantada, a nurse with the Canary Islands Health Service at the Playa Blanca Health Center.
Next, at 5:50 p.m., psychologist Azucena Duque, from the Canary Islands Health Service (Teguise Basic Health Zone), will give the talk "Practical Tools for Well-being." The day will culminate at 6:45 p.m. with the reading of the Mental Health manifesto, in an event that aims to highlight the importance of emotional care and community support.
The Councilor for Youth of the capital's City Council, Rosmen Quevedo, highlighted the relevance of this initiative "as a meeting place and awareness about mental health, an area that affects us all, especially young people."
Quevedo also emphasizes that "the Youth Center is a point of reference for promoting well-being and active participation, and we want these conferences to help us learn to take care of ourselves, both individually and collectively."
The councilor encourages the public to attend and participate in this proposal, recalling that "talking about mental health is talking about quality of life, empathy, and commitment to oneself and others."
