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Join UCS and NAMI VT for Family Voices, an event featuring stories about supporting family members living with mental health conditions.

As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, you are invited to join UCS on May 19 from 1:30-3pm (Spring Center, 655 Gage Street, Bennington, VT) for an event featuring stories told in-person by Chip and Judy Siler (President and Vice President of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) VT) about supporting family members living with mental health conditions.

Family Voices is an interactive presentation that challenges stereotypes and builds empathy by considering the impact mental health conditions have not just on the individual living with the illness, but also on their loved ones. Trained presenters with lived experience as family members of individuals living with a mental health condition talk openly about their experiences. Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions to learn more about how the presenters and their loved ones have coped with the conditions affecting their families and how to live well in spite of them. Please RSVP at ucsvt.org/events.

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On the third Tuesday of the month from April through October, naturalist and wild edibles enthusiast Arianna Alexsandra Collins of the Hoosic River Watershed Association and Offerings for Community Building guides visitors across the Clark’s 140-acre campus in a one-hour talk. Each spring walkabout begins on the Fernández Terrace, by the Clark’s Reflecting Pool,

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Meditation has multiple purposes and effects. By quieting the mind and relaxing through breath awareness, the heart rate slows, allowing you to let go of thoughts that arise. With practice, you can experience lessened anxiety and emotional reactivity.  

This eight-session course at Becket Arts Center is led by Rosie Bleyer is designed to help you shift into "being" mode. Suggested donation is $15, member $10. More information here. 

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For Ages 13+

Tuesdays, May 19 – June 30 (no class June 16)

Join Luana Dias David at BERKSHIRE SOUTH for a 6 week Salsa workshop. Dancers will focus on basic footwork, body lagging, spinning techniques, and partner work. The class also explores salsa choreography, timing and musicality, and performance skills. Be ready to learn fun routines that you can take on the dance floor!

Register at berkshiresouth.org/community-adult

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