A little crowdsourcing
So I've been percolating for a while about putting together a little video or podcast series aimed primarily at tweens/teens on mental health -- what going to therapy is like, what's happening in your brain when you have depression/anxiety/whatever, how to learn to balance caring for yourself and caring for others, healthy relationship boundaries, weed, cutting, sexuality, that kind of thing.
This is my passion, honestly -- I love giving people the tools they need to help themselves, and the earlier the better. (And I actually know some young persons who would probably help me make certain the content is helpful and not boring.) And I feel like this is a thing I can do to actually help, if not the current situation, then at least to help the next generation survive the current nonsense and maybe can get to do better.
So I'm just spitballing, literally writing this down for the first time. I think I want to do videos because my audience (hey, kids!) is more likely to find them than a book or a blog. I know how to create a podcast, and I do know video editors (hi, vidders!) but I am thinking about how to present the content. Definitely not my circular nun-in-her-forties-looking face talking into a camera. I love the style of things like CGP Grey or Crash Course, but have no notion of how much work that would actually be... certainly Crash Course has a mountain of people working on it, so that style is likely too ambitious. But you get it: < ahref ="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o">edutainment.
Here I am once again putting the cart before the horse, anyway, since no matter what I need to create the content. SO. What are peoples' thoughts on what the topics should be?
What's the thing you wish someone had told you about your brain, your self-care, your boundaries, your attitude, whatever, way before you figured it out in therapy at 25/35/45 years old??
I'm definitely going to start with "so you're gonna go see a therapist." :)
This is my passion, honestly -- I love giving people the tools they need to help themselves, and the earlier the better. (And I actually know some young persons who would probably help me make certain the content is helpful and not boring.) And I feel like this is a thing I can do to actually help, if not the current situation, then at least to help the next generation survive the current nonsense and maybe can get to do better.
So I'm just spitballing, literally writing this down for the first time. I think I want to do videos because my audience (hey, kids!) is more likely to find them than a book or a blog. I know how to create a podcast, and I do know video editors (hi, vidders!) but I am thinking about how to present the content. Definitely not my circular nun-in-her-forties-looking face talking into a camera. I love the style of things like CGP Grey or Crash Course, but have no notion of how much work that would actually be... certainly Crash Course has a mountain of people working on it, so that style is likely too ambitious. But you get it: < ahref ="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o">edutainment.
Here I am once again putting the cart before the horse, anyway, since no matter what I need to create the content. SO. What are peoples' thoughts on what the topics should be?
What's the thing you wish someone had told you about your brain, your self-care, your boundaries, your attitude, whatever, way before you figured it out in therapy at 25/35/45 years old??
I'm definitely going to start with "so you're gonna go see a therapist." :)