One Future Post: Volume 3
The third volume of One Future Post explores the revolutionary possibilities of AI in various realms including art, with a special focus on mental health. We ask- Is AI ready to be your therapist?
Keep up with updates and highlights of our work since the last volume of One Future Post! All eyes here please!
Uncuff India: Two episodes of our limited episode podcast, Uncuff India, are now live on Spotify and Google Podcasts. Through this podcast, we aim to unpack state violence and its impact on the citizens of India. What’s more, each episode also marks the launch of a new edition of the Uncuff India Prize, a creative competition where listeners can submit creative pieces basis the theme of the episode and they stand a chance to win a cash prize of INR 1500 along with a free seat in our upcoming PoSH Training of Trainers Program (more details on this course in this same section). The first edition of the prize concluded recently, with Nikhileshwar Gugnani, a Javed Abidi Fellow, being awarded the prize for their piece on campaigning for civic participation of youth with disabilities. Go on, submit your entries for the upcoming editions of the prize!
Nikhileshwar Gugnani, winner of the first edition of the Uncuff India Prize One Future Labourline: One Future Labourline (08043053588), a helpline launched by One Future Collective, offers pro-bono preliminary legal aid and advocacy support in English and Hindi to individuals or groups who may be facing harm, abuse, and/or discrimination at their workplace. The helpline is active between 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. IST from Mondays to Fridays.
This is an advisory helpline and hence does not provide any emergency support.One Future Festival: One Future Festival 2023-24 is a traveling roadshow where we are partnering with 100 institutions to facilitate customized workshops, community spaces and healing spaces. Let's partner together and nurture more radically kinder spaces, together. Exciting, no? Fill out this form or book a meeting directly to convey your interest and we will get right back to you!
Cohort Based Leadership Program on Prevention of Sexual Harassment (Training of Trainers): This open Cohort Based Leadership Program is directed towards professionals who are looking to build a career as PoSH consultants for companies and institutions across sectoral boundaries. This training is open to all who want to be consultants, trainers, or external members on the Internal Committees of organisations. You can avail the early bird offer until today and register for the course at a discounted price!
Curator Speaks
Through this piece, the curator explores the potential role of artificial intelligence in mental healthcare. With a basic insight into computerese relevant to mental health care, the piece helps readers traverse the development of AI from Eliza to GPT to decipher if AI is ready to be a therapist. The author/writer also urges the readers to audition an emotional interaction with AI with a word of caution of course.
The insightful Pragya has curated this volume of One Future Post. Pragya wears many hats: they are a mentor at One Future Collective, as well as a practicing psychologist based in Mumbai and works with 8 national and international organisations in different capacities from being a consultant psychologist to research director, mentor and advisory council member. Pragya also has more than 150 research and academic publications. They are a teaching faculty for graduate as well as post graduate students of Psychology.
Art Recos
Here is a specially curated set of art recommendations. Click on the image to know more.
DIY activity
Are you tickled enough to interact with a mental wellbeing chatbot? You can start your journey with Wysa to explore whether a chatbot would be your choice of therapist. Tap the Wysa penguin to begin!
You can also find some other AI mental wellbeing chatbots listed here.
Thank you for reading the third volume of One Future Post! We hope it made for a fulfilling read. We can’t wait to share newer volumes with you!
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