From 13:30 to 14:13, Silbersteinstr., Berlin – Germany
Nicole is an american who lives in Berlin in a housing community. She works on a self-care planning project. Self- care planning is a list of things you create that you can turn to when you need to feel better emotionally. Those things are different things that you choose to do to make your emotional state better. She interviews people to ask them for their own list and then sends part of the list to them by mail as a reminder. She used to call suicide hotlines a lot, she explained that the workers are trained to ask the same questions always in the same order and she would call them to get a sense of structure. She is a professional hula hooper but is taking a break from the stages right now and is concentrating on training at home. She has also gone to film school and is a painter, photographer and a guitar player. She likes things related to art and movement. All of these activities that she does are part of her own self-care planning, and this is why she doesn’t just concentrate on one activity, this way she can turn to the one that makes her feel good at that particular moment.