Self – care was a buzz word in mental health during the Covid Psycho-social response. Some of the key national (NIMHANS, 2020) and international (WHO,2020) implementation of self-care was restricted to equipping people with skills and capacities to deal with stressful situations from either psychological or spiritual perspectives. These responses are technically partial and does not remove the underlying social factors that cause stress.
Radical Transformational Leadership (RTL) for Mental Health had conceptualized based on the cutting-edge neuroscience and it was piloted as a Global Self - Care training programme, designed using the Conscious Full Spectrum Response (CFSR) Model developed by Monica Sharma, 2017 – “a unifying, encompassing and subject agnostic framework to deal with stressful situations”. The essence of RTL self-care is that it demystify’s the complex to a sophisticated simple language that can used by everyone, everywhere within the diverse contexts of home, workplace and communities and take action for transformative change for self and others. This self-care programme was designed is based on latest neuroscience, psychology and systems thinking to make visbile disempowering systems, structures and cultural norms to to deal with stressful life events. It can be essentially captured through 6 interrelated steps.
The six-step interrelated process encourages a transformative space when every individual reflects on on their experiences of invisible unworkable systems and disempowering cultural practices at home or workplace, challenge and create synergistic interventions at home, in the workplace and in society. This process sources inner potential of human beings, interrupts prevailing life-diminshing practices that the underpin stress, to co-createlife enhancing social environments and resilience.
