Strength TogetHER 27 - Session 1

April 23, 2022

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them and it will change your life forever. 

-Amy Poehler

 

LOKOPAKAR is a social-organization that aims for youth development. Lokopakar has various ongoing programs and strength together is one of them.  

Strength Together is a space where girls having different mindset, stories and sufferings come together and talk about them, helping growing and healing together also creating a safe space for every participant.

  

    With the motive of supporting each other, we  came up with a new cohort (cohort-27) of Strength Together.  With huge excitement and little nervousness, On 23rd April, we had our first virtual session i.e Introductory Session at 4 in the evening with 15+ participants vai zoom.

    Talking about the sessions, we first started with a brief introduction of Lokopakar and how it is contributing to the society and also about Strength TogetHER  and its journey up to 27th cohort. Prastuti didi, the coordinator leader of lokopakar made it clear to every participant about Strength Together. 

    Then we move forward for the introduction of our participants. Started with a cohort coordinator, my name is Puja Bishwakarma and I am the coordinator of cohort-27. I started my journey as a participant of cohort 7 to come forward as a cohort coordinator. After my introduction, every participant was asked to give their introduction along with their classes, address, and their favorite color. Surprisingly,  

Favorite colors of many participants came out light purple and white.

    Later, we had a chat about our expectations from Strength TogetHER and the topics they want to discuss further in our upcoming sessions. Among all the responses, here are some common expectations:

• Making a strong family like bond within the cohort,

• Build up an ability to express themself in mass,

• Learn from the story of every fellow participants,

• Enhance speaking ability

• Overcome overthinking

And here are some of the topics for further discussion:

• My little happiness

• Adolescence period

• My relationship with my parents

• Menstruation

• Physical insecurities

   To get to know each other better, we started talking about high school life and a participant sang a song which made the environment so comfortable and lively.

    By the time of wrap up, we took a group screenshot for the remembrance, finalizing the topic as well as the date for our next session. We concluded our session at 5:30 pm.