We warmly invite you to the one-day online workshop on “The German Health System and the Mental Health of Exiled Scholars” taking place on 24 November 2022 via Webex. 

International scholars that had to deal with restrictions to their personal and academic freedom and political prosecution, with protracted displacement, border regimes or setting themselves up in a new environment have brought up the issue of mental health related to their migration stories. May it be a traumatic or tumultuous past or a precarious present, people have to cope with different circumstances as an international migrant scholar. 

This workshop wishes to invite AiS members to gather for an in-depth exchange on two main themes: First, negotiating what mental health encompasses and what the German health system offers in this regard, how to receive access to the health system and which additional options exist beyond official institutions. Second, discussing some of the mental health issues migrant or exiled scholars may face in their daily lives within the AiS environment and which possibilities people have in different social networks to approach this. 

Themes you will discuss at the workshop are: 

• What does mental health mean? 

• How does the German health care system work with regard to mental health? 

• How can I find a psychotherapist? 

• Open exchange about mental health, individual situations and coping strategies 

Your Trainer 

Till Voigts is a psychological psychotherapist (M.Sc.-Psych.) from the psychosocial counseling of the Kontakt- und Beratungsstelle für Flüchtlinge und Migrant_innen e.V. (KuB, Contact and Counseling Center for Refugees and Migrants). He is a licensed psychotherapist with six years of experience at the center in which he is engaged as a longtime psychologist since September 2016. He has special experiences in the field of trauma, structural discrimination, the critique of paternalism and empowerment. 

How to Register 

To register, please send to AiS a note indicating your interest in attending, you may also state specific key interests in the workshop. Your interest to participate should be sent to ais@fu-berlin.de with the subject line: Registration - Workshop "Mental Health” by 08. November 2022.