PROJECT

A collage containing images of nature, a woman wearing a mask, illustrations of two women talking, and words like "KINDNESS," "ADVOCACY," "LOVE," "HOPE," "NOW," "care," "CELEBRATE," and "neighbor." There are also pictures of a dog, plants, farms, and a sunset over the ocean.

{the calm lab} is currently working on the following projects:

Community-Engaged & Art-Based Projects

Lewiston is Our Hope: Using community-engaged and art-based methodologies to bring forward stories and visions of community healing and remembering hope in the City of Lewiston.

The Ka Bogso Project: Collective healing and Somali refugee women’s posttraumatic growth and spirituality in partnership with Maine Community Integration. Check out the latest media coverage of the project.

Strong Afghan Women Project: Refugee women’s meaningful work and identity: Using art-based participatory research methodologies to create community voice-informed workforce development opportunities.

Asian American Psychotherapy Projects

  • Asian multilingual clients’ experiences in monolingual psychotherapy

  • Filipinx relational knowing and empathy: Pakikiramdam in psychotherapy

  • Korean relational knowing and attunement: Nunchi in psychotherapy 

Culture, Identity, Ideology, and System Projects

  • Literature review project on suicide prevention & intervention for migrant and seasonal farm workers and their families in partnership with the Maine Mobile Health Program.

  • Deconstructing meritocracy: Social class privilege and marginalization

  • Voices of students of color: Transforming undergraduate psychology curriculum

Ka Bogso: The 5Rs Posttraumatic Growth among Somali Refugee Women in Partnership with Maine Community Integration, Lewiston, Maine, USA

  • A woman explaining her artwork in an art gallery, with four colorful paintings hanging on a white wall behind her.
  • Two women at an art gallery, one in the foreground with hands pressed together and a slight smile, and another in the background clapping, surrounded by colorful artwork.
  • A corkboard filled with colorful sticky notes in pink, blue, green, and yellow, each containing handwritten messages and some with small thumbtack pins. A person's hand is reaching to pin or adjust one of the notes.
  • A woman is giving a guided tour or presentation in an art gallery to a group of five young adults, with paintings hanging on the white wall behind them.
  • Ka Bogso | Be healed in community | Posttraumatic growth theory and community engagement by Fowsia Musse and Yun Garrison
  • A man and a woman having a conversation in an art gallery. The man is wearing a black jacket with patches, and the woman is smiling, wearing a black top and hoop earrings.