Real voices. Real change.
One question, asked in classrooms, offices, clinics and cafés across India: what is one thing this place could do differently? Come and say it out loud. Someone will be listening, and someone will write it down.
Every Let's Talk session ends the same way: the question answered, a crisis card in every hand, and a route to a counsellor.
A small room, a circle of chairs. Everyone answers the one question; nobody is asked to share a personal story in front of a room.
One speaker with lived experience, one practitioner, one leader. Then the room speaks and the leader listens.
A table and two counsellors in a café or foyer. No appointment. Five minutes or fifty.
Sessions run across all four settings from 14 September to 31 October.
Who listens to a Class 9 student at eleven at night?
Circles in classrooms, a panel in the assembly hall, a Talk Corner in the foyer between classes.
Who listens to a manager two weeks before appraisals?
Team circles where managers speak last, an all-hands panel, counsellors at a cafeteria table over lunch.
Who listens to the counsellor?
Closed circles for counsellors, psychologists and wellness leads. What you carry, and what would lighten it.
A table, two counsellors, and time.
Talk Corners in cafés, community centres and campus foyers across Gurugram. No appointment.
On World Mental Health Day we gather everything the four weeks heard, publish the record with its method and sample size stated plainly, and hand it to the people who can act on it.
Two prompts, two categories, one question underneath both: what would it take for a young person to be heard? The best essay in each category is read aloud at the flagship convening on 10 October and published in the record.
The prompt
Everyone checks whether you finished the worksheet. Who checks whether you slept?
Seven periods, one bus, one group chat about a test nobody feels ready for. Write about the ten minutes you think a school day could spare for how students actually are, and what you would say in them.
The prompt
College told us where the counselling room was. It never said it was normal to walk in.
A new city, a hostel where everyone seems to already have people, and the difference between being alone and being lonely. Write about what you wish a senior had told you in week one, and how a campus could notice someone going quiet.
Pick a prompt. Write about what you would change, not only what happened.
Attach your essay with your name, institution and a contact number. Names can be withheld from publication.
A panel of counsellors, educators and a young person picks one winner per category. Winners receive the Let's Talk Essay Award and a place at the flagship convening.
Every entry is read by a counsellor. Writing about your own experience is welcome; if an essay tells us its writer may need support, we reach out to them first, before anything else. Writers can withdraw an essay at any time.
Our trained staff are invited to host a session at their facility. Schools, employers, clinics, cafés and neighbourhood groups can hold one with our kit; we train your facilitator or run it with you.
Let's Talk sessions are conversations, not clinical care. If a booking tells us someone may be at risk, a member of our clinical team calls back.
Talk by My Safe Spaces, our counselling service, opens with the campaign on 14 September. Book a confidential session with a licensed therapist, or reach out any time.