CCS Mental Health Talk - Living Courageously in 2023:

Come and spend time interacting with Mental health expert Mr. Pete Rogers and professional therapists from the CCS counseling team over lunch. This Lunch & Learn workshop offers you some new tools in your mental wellness toolbox for the coming year. 

We are changed by what we have seen, heard, and experienced in the past years. Our losses may continue to create confusion about what is real and what is not. Many of us discovered that we were more resilient than we thought, but the unrest continued and still worries us today. When we cannot find closure, how do we do our best to live courageously in 2023?  Networking with CCS counselors and peers with growth mindset.

Key takeaways

• Learning concepts related to post-traumatic growth
• Building connectedness with others through sharing stories of resilience
• Improve self-understanding, sympathy, intelligence, and creativity.
• Taking personal stock of where you've grown and where your energy may need to grow in the future
• Plan to rediscover calm and joy, understand yourself better, and plot a path to greater fulfillment in 2023 and beyond.

About the Speaker

Mr. Pete Rogers

Director of Community Center Shanghai counseling center

Licensed Counselor, Mental Health Expert, Professional Speaker

Mr. Rogers is a parent, educator, coach, highly skilled public speaker, and a competitive dancer in Lindy Hop and Blues. He has helped hundreds of professionals, educators, mental health professionals, parents, and students work towards becoming the best version of themselves.

Originally from the United States, Mr. Rogers has called Shanghai his home for the last eight years. Many have benefited from his practical and down-to-earth solutions to the most common and frustrating behaviors of colleagues and coworkers. Mr. Rogers is passionate about working with corporate partners to help their employees thrive with ongoing programming related to mental health, healthy workplace environments, and emotional intelligence.

Mr. Rogers earned his master's degree in clinical psychology with the highest honors from Loyola University, Maryland. He taught psychology and leadership there for 11 years before assuming a Student Leadership Director position at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He served for four years before coming to Shanghai.

Currently, Mr. Rogers works as Director of Counseling for Community Center Shanghai, an organization that connects, enables, and empowers the international community in Shanghai. Because of his high-powered sense of humor and story-telling skills, audiences experience memorable and practical learning: learning that's concretely connected to gratitude and real-life examples.

About Community Center Shanghai Counseling Center

Community Center Shanghai (CCS) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1998 with the mission to connect, support, and enable internationals from the moment they arrive in Shanghai through relevant community-building activities.

CCS Counseling Center comprises 30 professional counselors who offer individual, couple, and family counseling, support groups, workshops, training, and crisis intervention services. CCS counselors can serve clients in over 10 languages including native speakers who provide counseling in English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Romanian, and Italian. CCS Counseling Center is committed to ensuring professional mental health support is available to all in our community who need it regardless of financial condition.