Friends Indeed! (A fundraiser for the Centre for Expressive Psychotherapy in Bangladesh!)

Look! https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click (Follow this link for tickets OR, if you can’t attend, for a Pay-It-Forward Donation of your choosing.)

*See you at the HIVE Collaborative in Saint Paul on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 7:00! You can also donate at* **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click.** *Click on the Pay-It-Forward Donation based ticket link*!

A donation link! Do you feel ambushed? Hoodwinked? Gaslighted and gobsmacked?

Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in the 1944 film “Gaslight.” She opened a link to read an improv blog and, instead, found a donation request; he told her it was all in her imagination. She donated anyway: **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click**.

I’ll be brief!

Table Salt Productions is producing a fundraiser (Friends, Indeed!) for the Centre for Expressive Psychotherapy in Bangladesh on May 15, 2024 at 7:00 in Saint Paul at the HIVE Collaborative. I’ve worked with this organization for two summers in Chittagong, Bangladesh, learning about Expressive Psychotherapy and teaching improv classes based on improving mental health.

*Holistic. Artistic. The many disciplines employed by the Centre for Expressive Psychotherapy in Bangladesh.* **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click**

They do great work! Consider the following a testimonial collage:

*Tickets and donations.* **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click**

*With the. Expressive Psychotherapy students at Cox’s Bazar International University after a vigorous improv training session.* **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click**

*An aspiration in this volatile world*. **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click**

*MK Jatra, director of the Centre for Expressive Psychotherapy in Bangladesh.* **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click**

*At Chittagong University, considering this advice in my crocs.* **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click**

*Could I have been luckier? Joyful–and a bit frenetic–with students at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh.* **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click**

*More murals at Chittagong University. Expressive Psychotherapy unites the head and the heart, giving participants innovative ways to handle mental challenges.* **https://www.simpletix.com/e/friends-indeed-tickets-168575#smtx-click**

Our fundraiser will feature music by Jen Scott (Penny and the Bandits) and Dennis Curley! We’ll also enjoy some improv performances with Kelly Kohlbacher from The Theater of Public Policy and Delta Giordano from Mental Health Resources. And–at the risk of being pedantic–we’ll glance at the ways improv can improve mental health by:

Regulating the Autonomic Nervous System

Reframing negative narratives through non-judgment

Helping us enter purposefully into ambiguity

Strenthening Social Engagement skills

and

Asserting productive boundaries