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🌍 *GLOBAL GASE × WICCI ESD TALKS 2026*

Powered by the Global Alliance for Sustainability in Education (GASE) and the Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (WICCI)

🌱 Theme:

*MENTAL HEALTH, ETHICS & SUSTAINABLE FUTURES*

Exploring how empathy, resilience, ethical leadership, trauma-informed systems, and mental wellbeing shape healthier individuals, institutions, and nations.

You are warmly invited to join an inspiring global dialogue bringing together distinguished psychiatrists, mental health experts, educators, governance leaders, researchers, and sustainability advocates from around the world.

Together, we will examine how mental wellbeing serves as a foundation for sustainable development, ethical leadership, and thriving communities.

📅 *Date:* Sunday, 31st May 2026

🕔 *Time:* 5:00 PM East Africa Time (EAT)

📍 *Platform:* Zoom Global Livestream

🔗 *Join the Session:*

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86754082220?pwd=2CzKEg5JhSeRDvHIzO8YlWTgmRdrg5.1

🆔 *Meeting ID:* 867 5408 2220

🔐 *Passcode:* 018843

🎤 *FEATURED GLOBAL SPEAKERS*

🧠 *Dr. Deepak Raheja*

*Empathy as Capital*

Healing Philosophy and Stigma Dismantling for National Frameworks

🌍 *Dr. Sugandha Gupta*

*Ethics of Futures*

School Psychiatry and Safeguarding Generational Futures

🌱 *Dr. Khyati Methalia*

*Hope and Resilience*

Youth Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, and Survivor-Centered Systems

🏛 *Dr. Amrit Pattojoshi*

*Burnout Economics*

Engineering Systemic Resilience with Institutional Legitimacy

🌏 *Dr. Roop Sidana*

*Mental Wealth Nationhood*

A Macro-Indicator for Sustainable Societies

🌸 *Dr. Ruma Bhattacharya*

Vice President, WICCI Mental Health Council

*Championing Mental Health Advocacy and Sustainable Wellbeing*

🎙 *SESSION COORDINATORS*

🇨🇦 *Amb. Dr. Christine K. Obaigwa Owinyi*

CEO, Global Alliance for Sustainability in Education (GASE)

Canada

🇮🇳 *Dr. Aninda Sidhana*

Global Coordinator

WICCI Mental Health Council

India

🌍 *GLOBAL TIME ZONES*

🇰🇪 Kenya – 5:00 PM

🇿🇦 South Africa – 4:00 PM

🇳🇬 Nigeria – 3:00 PM

🇬🇭 Ghana – 2:00 PM

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – 3:00 PM

🇮🇳 India – 7:30 PM

🇦🇪 UAE – 6:00 PM

🇨🇦 Ontario – 10:00 AM

🇺🇸 New York – 10:00 AM

🇺🇸 Los Angeles – 7:00 AM

🇦🇺 Sydney – 12:00 AM (1 June)

👥 *WHO SHOULD ATTEND?*

✔ Educators and School Leaders

✔ Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals

✔ Policymakers and Governance Leaders

✔ Researchers and University Students

✔ Youth Leaders and Advocates

✔ Sustainability Professionals

✔ Faith and Community Leaders

✔ NGOs and Development Practitioners

✔ Anyone passionate about human wellbeing and sustainable futures

🌱 *WHY THIS CONVERSATION MATTERS*

Around the world, communities are facing unprecedented levels of emotional stress, trauma, burnout, social isolation, and mental health challenges.

Sustainable futures require more than strong economies and technological advancement. They require emotionally healthy people, ethical leadership, compassionate institutions, resilient families, and caring communities.

Mental health is no longer a side conversation—it is central to education, governance, peacebuilding, social cohesion, and sustainable development.

Join us as we explore practical pathways for creating societies where empathy, healing, resilience, ethics, and human dignity become the foundations of sustainable futures.

📢 *Please share widely with your networks, institutions, universities, organizations, and communities worldwide.*

Together, let us build healthier minds, stronger communities, and more sustainable futures.

🌐 *Global Alliance for Sustainability in Education (GASE)*

🌱 Transforming Education for Sustainable Development

🤝 *In Partnership with WICCI Mental Health*