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And in between work, to receive such a heartfelt message is all it takes to reinforce us, strengthen our resolve and motivate us ...more. There is something incredibly moving about choosing to remember those we have lost not only through rituals, but through the way we choose to live, the work we do within ourselves, and the good we try to put back into the world. And to remember us alongwith the weight and tenderness of that offering is such a privilege. To know that you chose to place a part of your savings into the work we are doing, with such intention and with your loved ones in your heart, is something The Collective Trust will hold with great care. It reminds us that sometimes the work we do reaches places and people we may never even know about. Thank you for trusting us with something so personal. And thank you for reminding why this work matters.  Your offering has reached us. And we hope that, in some small way, it reaches our loved ones too. ❤️
Suicide prevention begins with creating spaces where people feel safe enough to walk in, speak honestly, and be met with empathy rather than apprehension. Sharing lived experiences like this helps us move beyond awareness into a deeper understanding of what makes connection possible when someone is struggling. We invite more reflections, experiences, words, images, or moments that have helped you or someone you know hold on, reach out, or feel less alone. Your sharing could become part of a living archive of hope and care. ❤️
This World Suicide Prevention Day 2026, we want to hear from you. We often talk about suicide prevention through numbers, awareness campaigns, warning signs and services. But there is another part of the conversation we want to make space for. We are asking some questions here and maybe an attempt to answer them, even one question from the many might help someone to stay. We invite you to share these fragments with us, not just as essays but maybe even photographs, screenshots, messages, testimonies, poems, memories or anything else that carries meaning. You can DM us or write to us at reachcollectivetrust@gmail.com With your consent, we will collect and document these fragments with the hope that, over time, they can become a resource for people, practitioners and communities. We hope to build a Living Archive of Care, Connection and Hope; a collective record of the many different ways people find support and keep going. Your contribution can be anonymous too. Please go ahead, engage, share and make it reach to people who might need it the most. And thank you so much for doing so. **We also have physical posters with the same message and intent. Please DM us if you are interested and convinced to share it at your physical space. We would love to know this matters to people.** #BeyondAwareness #WorldSuicidePreventionDay #WSPD2026 #LivingArchive #TheCollectiveTrust
Sharing what's shared- because someone might be going through the same, maybe alone. This Suicide Prevention Day, we might not want to start with suicide but by creating a braver and safer space to talk about pain. ***If you are a mental health practitioner who carries a story like this, we invite you to reach out. Let us co-create a space to listen, reflect, grieve, learn and continue the work, together.***
Changing the Narrative also means changing who gets to shape the conversation. At The Collective Trust, we take pride in working alongside people who bring not only professional knowledge, but lived experience of the very struggles we seek to understand and respond to. Today, one of our team members shares his personal account of living through depression and suicidal thoughts. We share his story with respect, because we believe that lived experience is a form of knowledge. It teaches us things that books, training and clinical practice alone cannot always teach us. It reminds us how important it is to listen differently, respond with compassion, and build care that is rooted in the realities of people's lives. For us, community mental health is not about professionals standing outside a community and deciding what people need. It is about learning with people, creating with people, and making space for the wisdom of those who have lived through it. This is how we hope to keep changing the narrative, together. *** If this sharing resonates with you, share your stories with us. Someone might need to read it to stay.*** **** Please DM us or call us if it's making you uneasy, distressed or at a loss of how to respond to anyone going through this.****
Changing the Narrative means making room for the stories of those who hold communities through crisis. We share a reflection from a team member of Matai Society- a psychosocial partner of TCT, on his experience of accompanying families affected by conflict in Manipur. His account reminds us that community care is not always about having the right answers, providing resources or knowing exactly what to say. Sometimes it is about being present, staying through the silences, listening to what cannot easily be spoken, and recognising the limits of what one person can carry. This reflection also makes space for something we do not speak about enough: the impact of caring on the people who are doing the caring. Frontliners can carry grief, helplessness, guilt and the feeling that they could not do enough. Acknowledging this does not make the work weaker. It makes our understanding of care more honest. On World Suicide Prevention Day, as we speak about Changing the Narrative, perhaps we also need to ask: What does it mean to care for those who are constantly holding space for others? And what would community mental health look like if we allowed frontline workers, people with lived experience, queer communities and other marginalised voices to shape not just the response, but the very way we understand care?
Another sharing from our own team member at The Collective Trust, because we start with us, we start from home. Perhaps changing the narrative means changing what we expect suicide prevention to look like. It means creating spaces where people can speak before they reach a crisis. It means taking distress seriously without demanding a diagnosis. It means making listening a community skill. It means equipping teachers, peers, parents, frontline workers, community members and professionals to respond with care rather than fear, judgement or silence. It means building pathways to support that are accessible, affordable, culturally meaningful and continuous. And it means remembering that therapists are human too. We can care deeply and still not have control over another person's choices. We can do our best and still experience loss. We can carry grief without turning it into blame. And perhaps most importantly, we can allow what we have lost to teach us how to build something better. ***If you are a mental health practitioner who carries a story like this, we invite you to reach out. Let us co-create a space to listen, reflect, grieve, learn and continue the work, together.***
"A few years ago, I shared a story after losing someone I had only recently begun working with. We had two sessions, and then she was gone. I remember the guilt, the what ifs, the helplessness of knowing the theories of grief and suicide prevention, yet being unable to make sense of the loss. Over the years, as a therapist and mental health practitioner, I have come to hold that experience differently.  Suicide prevention cannot rest on one therapist, one family, or one person in crisis. We cannot always know what is happening beneath the surface, and we cannot turn every loss into a question of what we should have done differently.  But we can build stronger circles of care, listen earlier, respond without judgement, make help more accessible, and create communities where reaching out remains possible." Team member, The Collective Trust . . . This World Suicide Prevention Day, perhaps changing the narrative also means creating space for those of us who carry the loss as professionals and health workers. We wanted to start from our own people in our organisation. For the practitioners who have sat with the what ifs, the guilt, the doubt, the shame, and quietly wondered if we could have done more.  At The Collective Trust, we want to make space to speak about these experiences, learn from one another, and hold the complexity of this work together.  ***If you are a mental health practitioner who carries a story like this, we invite you to reach out. Let us co-create a space to listen, reflect, grieve, learn and continue the work, together.***
Grateful for the opportunity to present our work on Wari Wayokon with VU Amsterdam. It was an experience that allowed us to share the stories, learnings, and realities that shape this work. Our heartfelt gratitude to the Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM) for creating spaces where community rooted work is seen, heard, and valued. A special thank you to Dr. L.S. and Dr. Ramesh for their unwavering support, guidance, and belief in our work throughout this journey. And most importantly, thank you for acknowledging the work we do with communities. Wari Wayokon is built on the belief that stories matter, that people are not problems to be fixed, and that healing can begin when we create spaces to listen and bear witness. We are grateful to be given the space to share, to learn, and to continue this journey.
Yes, we celebrated with the people at the heart of The Collective Trust, the ones who show up, hold the work together, and keep us moving forward. ❤️ Today was also a moment for the team to come together and reflected on the journey so far, remembering how each of us entered this space, what brought us here, and why we chose to stay and build. We spoke about what lies ahead, the uncertainties and challenges we may have to face, and the courage it will take to keep moving. More than making promises, we made a commitment to keep learning together, to grow with the work, and to remain open to the people and communities who will walk alongside us. We may not know exactly where this journey will take us, but we know what we want to keep moving towards: building spaces and systems of care that are more human, collective, inclusive and rooted in the realities of our communities.
One year of The Collective Trust. ❤️ Today marks one year since The Collective Trust became a registered Trust.  But our journey began long before the registration, with a few people, a shared conviction, many questions, and a stubborn belief that care could be built differently. We now have a very dynamic team whom we didn't seek out but rather who walked through our doors because of the trust and conviction of the vision we have of the way ahead.  This year has taken us into communities, relief camps, educational institutions, held listening circles, story circles and many conversations in between. We have learnt, unlearned, tried, failed, started again, and sometimes simply figured things out as we went along. People have been part of this journey in different ways and at different times. Some stayed close, some moved along different paths, and some simply passed through for a while. Every encounter, every conversation, every contribution has shaped us in ways that may not always be visible. We may not name everyone, because we know we would inevitably leave some people out. But if you have ever shown up, opened a door, shared an idea, challenged us, trusted us, worked alongside us, or simply believed in what we were trying to build, this is also your story. We remember our subject experts, interns, trainees and volunteers from concert spaces to protests areas, from our Shunggoi and beyond. Thank you for being a part of our becoming. One year in, we are still learning what The Collective Trust can be. We know only that we want it to remain rooted in people, lived experiences, community, compassion and the courage to do things differently. And there is room for more. For new collaborations, new ideas, new people and new journeys. Come build with us.  Let's make a bigger team together. Here’s to the first year, to everyone who brought us here, and to everyone we are yet to meet. Happy Foundation Day to us! ❤️🎉💫🙌🌈 - The Collective Trust Team Hot take: Our logo was designed by good friend @all._.kaps and we are making sure to tag him along in acknowledgement, always.
August Wakhong unfolded with the most vibrant crowd today. From sharing about spirituality to politics, to academics to epistemic violence, to identity and the power to do away with it, today was heavy and refreshing. The essence of every Wakhong is the collectiveness we share in human malaise. But with every Wakhong we hear stories, multiples of it, each one with its own weight and baggage and what more do we need when we have listeners who provide the space, the patience and shared empathy. The best thing that stayed was when one of us shared how sharing from Wakhong is used as reminders to navigate life's uncertainties thereby acknowledging how powerful it is to share our strife because we never know when it would become another person's manual. Wakhong Listening Circle Keiraak Culture Community Collective Endeavour
We have had a very exciting month. With it came a lot of stress and anxieties too. So we look forward to the Listening Circle for ourselves as much as it is for everyone else. We are inviting all our fellow applicants- because why not! ​Life can get overwhelming, and holding everything in only weighs us down. Wakhong is a safe, confidential, and judgment-free circle where you can openly share and vent whatever you have been carrying for the past few weeks, or simply sit down and listen. There is no expectation to have everything figured out. We practice active listening and therapeutic support, holding space to validate one another and leaving with a positive note to carry forward. Everyone is welcome. Take some time for yourself and join the circle! Session details Date: Sunday, 30th August, 2026 Time: 3 pm Venue: Keishampat Kangabam Leikai Scan the QR code to register, or use the link in our bio!
Karigumba nahakki mental health ki journey duna nasagi oiba research project oiba yarabadi kamdouba? Nahakki expereince singdo yamna maru oi, nangi research su maru oihanba yai. Youth-Learn Fellowship yaobiyu! The Collective Trust na ahanba Youth-Learn Fellowship batch ki host oibagi khudong chaba ama phangjare. India gi mental health research ta naha oiriba singbu henna inclusive oinabagidamak Welcome Trust na commision touba priject amada Sangath ki Youth-LEARN hairiba project asida collaborate toujare. Mental health ki awaba mayoknaraba natraga neurodivergence ka loinana hingbagi lived expereince leiraba fellow ama The Collective Trust na thijari. Fellowship se kari oigani? - [ ] Ahangbasi position ama oigani - [ ] Tha 9 -12, October 2026 tagi September 2027 - [ ] Esa laktuna yaoba - [ ] Fellow singna sangbagi matung enna part-time natraga full-time thabak touba yagani - [ ] Sel gi mana lupa 3,60,000 Eina kari tougani? - [ ] Esagi oiba expereince ka mari leinaba research idea pukhatpa natraga - [ ] Stipend amasung research plan yaoba budget ama semba - [ ] The Collective Trust ki chathariba project singda saruk yaba - [ ] Research semgatpa amasung pangthokpada mentor gi mateng phangba - [ ] Adomgi thabaktu mari leinaba maongda phongba Kanana apply touba yai? Adomna apply touba yagani karigumba: - [ ] Mental health ki awaba natraga neurodivergence ki lived expereince leirabadi - [ ] Chahi 18-34 gi marakta leirabadi - [ ] Houjik houjik Imphal, Manipur da leirabadi - [ ] English natraga Manipuri eba paba ngamlabadi Karigi apply tougani? Fellow ama oina makha gi kannabasing asi fangbigani: - [ ] Esagi lived expereince ta yumpham oiba reserach project ama semgatpagi khudong chaba - [ ] Professionals singdagi mateng louduna khut-samnana research touba tamba - [ ] Sel gi mateng, psychotherapy toubagi mateng yaona - [ ] Matam naina workshops, conferences amasung skill-building sessions touduna capacity hengathanba - [ ] National gi thak oiba naha amadi researchers singi achouba network amada saruk yaba. - Fellow oinaba sem-sarabra? 23rd Aug gi ahing 11.59 PM faobada bio da link touba form sida apply toubirak-u. Akupa marol: 9436894405 ta call touburak-u.
Stories were shared, held, and witnessed. In every voice, a little more of our collective strength emerged. Wari Wayokon Story Circle 9 August, 2026 Video credit: @lklai._
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