#MeWe International Inc.

We are thrilled that Moleskine Foundation and its partners have named our organization #MeWe International Inc. (@mewesyria @mewehonduras @mewehonduras x others) among 2024’s Creativity Pioneers Fund award winners. We are grateful and humbled to be among 20 or so leading artists and innovators from across the world chosen for this timely and powerful work and community. Our world is on fire. Our planet is a nervous system. Our humankind is a nervous system. While the world may seem broken—and in some cases it is—-WE are not broken —and our collective creativity and resilience are not broken. Creative expression and creative practices are vital for community health, equity, and human rights. This is our mission #MeWe International Inc. . And we must rise together. Love and gratitude to @moleskinefoundation @adama__sanneh @commartsnetwork @entschki Porticus for your support, trust, and championship. Most importantly this award is a victory and validation for our global #MeWeIntl communities—from zaatari refugee camp and Syria, to Turkey to Lebanon to Gaza —to Honduras and Mexico to the United States to many more spaces . From prisons to refugee camps to museums and hospitals and schools—you ALL are our community and ALL stories are sacred. We are one and this award and recognition is yours. Love over fear. —-#meweintl CEO Mohsin

UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Side-Event, recap: Investing in Youth #MentalHealth event. We were recently invited by UNICEF to facilitate #MeWe International Inc. activities from our #arts and #mentalhealth programs. We also were honored to join a panel of innovative companies like @jomalonelondon Zurich Insurance Spotify & lululemon who are joining UNICEF’s youth mental health coalition. A few points of focus from our founder’s speech at UNICEF: 1) Inequality lives in language. Access to —-and the expansion of —-the language and tools for #mentalhealth must be decentralized and decolonized. 2) The arts and storytelling are powerful tools for promoting community based mental health psychosocial support spaces. Communication skills-building is a critical pillar of mental health and human rights. Arts and storytelling are not a product for health but a process for advancing health 3) trust and train survivors and those living in proximity to the issues to take the head, localize, and scale. 4) Investments in mental health must include programs and tools for healing the healers and community volunteers. 5) Mental health is not a treatment for normalizing systemic social inequality that dehumanizes some lives while protecting and uplifting others. Systemic inequality and social injustice must be addressed politically, not just clinically. Thank you to Nazila Nazila Zahra Vali and Carla from UNICEF for inviting us. Photos by UNICEF // Ceasefire Now #youth #mentalhealth #coalition #privatesector #unicef #arts #storytelling

After a succcessful Atlanta activation of our ‘stories are living things…’ tour, we will next be in NY 26 Sept speaking at the United Nations General Assembly side event on youth #mentalhealth hosted by UNICEF and Spotify. This session is private but our 3rd US tour stop is in Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) , free and open to all. On each stop of our tour, our founder will be facilitating community storytelling sessions focusing on #mentalhealth and community resilience. Join us at the LACMA Museum and For Freedoms 28 Sept! Free rsvp here: https://lnkd.in/eZpCiRjE #storytelling #health

Communication— and the practice of storytelling are synced to mental and physical health and community cohesion. I’ll be leading talk and facilitating an immersive #MeWe International Inc. community storytelling for health session 21 Sept ,Saturday 10:30am as part of WF Fund Inspired Generosity Summit. FREE and all are welcome—including children! See you soon Atlanta! Register free here : https://lnkd.in/eYRYPhfk Thanks Dilnaz Waraich for her leadership and invitation.

#MeWe International Inc. Community Storytelling Gathering NYC 7.23.24 430pm EST Havas NYC Stories Are Living Things Join us in NY 23 July to explore how communication, storytelling, and creative practices shape our health, connectedness, and human rights. We’ll be leading healthcare workers and health campaigners through #MeWeIntl community tools and sharing lessons and reflections from our global work in scaling creative practices for advancing mental health and social justice. In a time of weaponized communication and narratives, it is essential to reclaim our storytelling and creativity as pillars of health and connectedness. This interactive series is part of a new and emerging collaboration with Havas Healing the Healers Campaign, @meweinternational , and artist Sashka . The July gathering is private but there are limited spots available for those interested in participating. Email contact(at)MeWeIntl(dot)org to attend. #art #mentalhealth #storytelling #meweintl photo by Robert Edward Grant #mentalhealth #arts #storytelling #communication

#worldrefugeeday: engage with and uplift the stories of the underrepresented. Our short documentary , produced by @mewesyria @meweinternational , and featuring artist and athlete Sami (@sami_20_sy ) in Zaatari refugee camp. Sami’s film shows him painting his favorite road in Syria as he recites a poem of love and loss from the war. In his film Sami paints on a canvas his favorite memories of Syria using his wheelchair and imagination. #MeWe International Inc. we unlock creative practices in communication and storytelling to advance healing, agency, and social cohesion from within underrepresented and marginalized communities. Watch the full film now on TIME here: https://lnkd.in/e7JucZ3m The above films were co-directed by MeWe International’s founder Mohsin Mohi Ud Din (@allplacesfromhere ) and artist Rafe Scobey Thal @youroldornewfriendrafe ) . MeWe International, QUIET, and People’s TV are executive producers. #refugees #storytelling #mentalhealth

Stories, communication, (visual—non verbal—music and rhythmic—body language—narratives—social connections)—all reshape our biology and psychology in some way. We believe it’s possible to reclaim agency of your health by reclaiming agency of the stories within you and by communication skills-building for social connectedness. These tools and creative ways of being are acts of health and justice in a time of collective grieve, collective dehumanization and uncertainty. Please watch and share our NEW interview feature on TIME magazine and TIME Studios featuring #MeWe International Inc. and our community facilitators and storytellers of #mewesyria #mewehonduras #mewemexico and #MeWeColorado. #mentalhealth #arts #storytelling #refugees #syria Ceasefire Now.

In a time of weaponized communication, we must reclaim storytelling as a pillar of health. Our new interview with TIME magazine #MeWeIntl up now. Please watch and reshare. #art #health #storytelling #refugees https://lnkd.in/g83WBT2p

Durante el último a?o he dedicado esfuerzos, junto a aliadxs y colegas, para la realización de un proyecto enfocado a la transformación de narrativas y expansión de realidades desde las juventudes indígenas de México. Hemos trabajado en Puebla, Michoacán, Estado de México, Tlaxcala, Ciudad de México y vamos en los próximos meses por la presentación final de estas visitas comunitarias en una Galería de fotografías, sonidos y demás expresiones. Con el apoyo de #MeWe International Inc. y su metodología implementamos un taller de comunicación y nuevas narrativas guiado a incentivar el poder de historia de las personas participantes. ?Quieren saber más? Sigan a MOJIM en nuestras redes sociales: https://lnkd.in/eqWVra2E #WeAreIndigenous #PueblosIndigenas #Juventud #Proyectos.

It has been 1 year since 2 earthquakes cracked the earth in Turkey and Syria, claiming more than 50,000 lives and displacing tens of thousands of people. In this special episode of our podcast ‘The Understory’, we provide audio messages and stories of survival from our #MeWeSyria volunteers who lived in the epicenter zone and who lost their homes and friends and family. In the middle of the natural disaster, our Syrian heroes used our emergency aid micro grants to lead community spaces for healing and creative expression in the aftermath of the earthquake. They reached over 390 earthquake survivors with our storytelling and communication tools for health and community resilience. As the tectonic plates move and reshape our earth, our stories are our compass. Please listen and share. Love and gratitude to our Syrian heroes in #MeWeSyria #MeWeIntl: Sara, Shahed, Ola, Ayesha, Asmaa, Abood, Hiba, Huda, Solaiman, Omar, and Hadi. Full episode available on Apple and Spotify podcasts: https://lnkd.in/e45Mthu6 #earthquakes #health #arts #storytelling #mentalhealth