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Navigating Dating with Mental Illness

Navigating Dating with Mental Illness

A 4-week workshop designed to help individuals navigate the dating landscape while managing mental illness, providing tools to overcome barriers, build resilience, and foster healthy relationships. 

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Starts 9th January, 2025

4 Zoom sessions | Every Thursday at 8:00 PM IST | 75 minutes

Confidential | Small group, 6-8 people

Group Type: Workshop

Includes 3 Free Peer Calls*

Led by Expert

Program Fee - INR 3000 (India) | USD 80 (Outside India) | Get 30% off if you buy for two

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Goals of the group

The goal of this group is to help participants who are struggling to navigate the dating landscape while managing mental illness. The focus is on overcoming barriers, building resilience, and finding clarity and confidence in their journey to find a compatible partner. It provides tools to manage mental health challenges while engaging in dating and helps participants create a personalized roadmap for success.

Who is it for?

This group is for individuals who:

• Struggle with navigating dating platforms and systems while managing mental illness.
• Feel overwhelmed or lost about how to begin the dating process.
• Have started dating but are unsure how to proceed or face recurring challenges.
• Want a supportive space to address the unique challenges of dating with mental illness, such as anxiety, depression, or other mental health concerns.

Glimpse of the regime

Session 1: Understanding the Impact of Dating on Mental Health

Goal: Create awareness of how the process of dating affects mental well-being.

Key Points:
• Introduction of participants and setting group norms.
• Explore common mental health struggles encountered in dating (anxiety, self-doubt, overwhelm).
• Understand the emotional toll of dating and its connection to mental illness.
• Techniques for recognizing and managing stress and anxiety in dating.

Exercises: Emotional Check-In: Participants fill out a worksheet rating how dating affects their mental health, identifying specific stress triggers.

Session 2: Identifying Internal and External Barriers

Goal: Increase self-awareness of obstacles that hinder dating progress and how to manage them.

Key Points:
• Discuss internal barriers (self-sabotaging patterns, fear of rejection, lack of confidence).
• Address external challenges (societal pressure, stigma around mental illness, family expectations).
• Techniques to identify and work through negative thinking patterns and limiting beliefs.

Session 3: Reclaiming Emotional Autonomy

Goal: Empower participants to release past emotional baggage and take control of their dating journey.

Key Points:
• Address past relationships or experiences that have shaped current dating fears.
• Learn how to transform these experiences into learning opportunities.
• Strategies to reclaim self-worth and develop healthy boundaries.

Session 4: Building Healthy Dating Skills

Goal: Equip participants with the skills needed for building healthy relationships and managing dating dynamics.

Key Points:
• Discussion on communication skills, setting boundaries, and self-advocacy in relationships.
• Developing a personalized dating roadmap: how to approach dating with mental health in mind.
• Review of skills learned over the past sessions.
• Exercises: Role-playing scenarios to practice healthy communication in dating.

Learn from us & from each other

  • I learned practical skills for dating that have made a significant difference in my relationships. I feel more equipped to handle my mental health while dating.

    Arati

    Safe Space

  • This workshop gave me the tools I needed to overcome my dating fears. I now feel more confident in my approach!

    Ravi

    Empowering Journey

  • I loved the supportive environment where I could share my struggles and learn from others facing similar challenges.

    Pooja

    Transformative Skills

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What are SoulUp Groups?

At SoulUp, you'll meet people who get what you're going through and might be living some of the same realities. People looking for extraordinary conversations, just like you.

✔️ Small group, 6-8 people

✔️ Every meeting led by a world-class facilitator

✔️ Weekly 75-minute online video sessions

What happens in a group session?

While the format can vary as per topic, here’s a flow that most sessions follow

Check In. Participants check-in with each others' feelings and answer the prompt given by the facilitator if any.

Conversation. Your facilitator will guide the group through free-flowing conversation coupled with some simple exercises or activities —with the goal of sharing openly, connecting to your emotions and learning specific skills.

Check Out. Participants share what they're taking away from the session.

How is confidentiality maintained in Groups?

Confidentiality in Support Groups is maintained using secure meeting links and enabling waiting rooms to control participant access. Participants are bound by mutual confidentiality clause within the group. Also, sessions are not recorded without explicit consent.

Are Group sessions done on video?

Yes, all group sessions are conducted on video via Zoom. While participants are allowed to use pseudonyms - they need to be on video to make the most of the session.

What is SoulUp's refund policy on groups?

1. After you have registered for the group and you'd like to opt out:
- Full refund if you cancel 30 days before the group start date.
- 50% refund if you cancel 16-30 days before the group start date.
- No refund if you cancel 0-15 days before the group start date.

2. If SoulUp cancels a group, we will refund the entire signup fee.

3. If SoulUp reschedules a group by more than 2 weeks, we will inform you and give you an option to opt out and get a full refund.

4. SoulUp reserves the right to remove participants from a group if found unsuitable to the group. In such cases participants are given the option of claiming the pro-rata amount left as a refund or using it for another service on SoulUp.

* Are FREE Peer calls available to everyone who signs-up for this group?

You can book 3 Peer calls for FREE as part of signing up for this group.

Please note: This is only available to first-time participants of a SoulUp group (those trying a SoulUp group for the first time).

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You can use only 1 type discount while signing up for a group. Cash backs cannot be coupled with discounts either.

How long has SoulUp been around?

SoulUp was founded in Feb 2022 by Punita Mittal and Mahak Maheshwari - a team of IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay with more than 20 years of combined healthcare experience. SoulUp is redefining mental health through groups that are effective, but also fun, social, and challenging.

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