Aung Mental Health Initiative opens Mandalay Safe Space as a new community-based support hub. The space offers mental health and psychosocial support activities, including training for caregivers, psychodrama sessions, and drawing and creative expression workshops. It aims to provide a low-threshold, relationship-centered environment where people can gather, share, and heal together.

Training participants include general practitioners, social workers, teachers, and artists, building a multidisciplinary network of local caregivers. Mandalay Safe Space also hosts psychodrama, drawing and creative expression workshops, and other relationship-centered, low-threshold support activities.

The initiative is carried out in collaboration with Tokyo Soteria members and Prof. Ivonne Donegani from Italy, a leading figure in Mental Health Reform, bringing international expertise in community-based and arts-integrated mental health care.

In collaboration with Tokyo Soteria and partners in Bologna, Italy, Aung Mental Health Initiative presented findings from the Safe Space initiative launched after the March 2025 Mandalay earthquake, titled “What Are People Most Afraid of Now?”.

The 2024 short film, “Psychodrama” was also presented at the congress for sharing and learning.