- Capacity building for the disadvantaged
- Business services for sustainable growth
MESPERO reflects the spirit of Sustainable Development Goal 17.
DUAL FOCUS
We create multi-stakeholder partnerships to mobilize knowledge and resources.
In humanitarian settings, we innovate locally-based and sustainable solutions promoting resilience.
MESPERO itself is sustainable through external project funding combined with revenue from our business services.
BUSINESS SERVICES
We consult corporate groups, educational institutions and other entities in areas such as:
- establishing a culture of psychological safety and supporting corresponding leadership development
- accelerating change processes and handling related cultural challenges
- using the dynamic business environment to create a more agile operational model
- ensuring best practices in workplace diversity and inclusion
- optimizing your employee assistance program (EAP) to promote performance and productivity
- handling M&A issues including cultural due diligence for talent management and employee integration
- deploying Emotional Intelligence as a driver of success
Pandemic HR
Due to the pandemic, mental health challenges are impacting the work force globally including:
- elevated rates of PTSD, depression and anxiety among medical staff and frontline workers
- sharp rises in workplace stress and burnout
- increases in drug and alcohol abuse, especially for women
- sleep disturbances such as insomnia
Meanwhile, workplace change-management and employee-engagement initiatives are being hampered by strict cost-cutting measures.
MESPERO’s professional team of experienced international consultants provides impactful and tailored solutions focused on prevention.
Our innovative approach to workplace resilience and emotional wellbeing is cost-effective, easily integrated and highly sustainable.
MHPSS
Hundreds of millions of people across the world have little or no access to the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) they urgently require.
Those living in poverty, conflict and violence are at heightened risk; the pandemic has made matters worse.
Yet there is no cost-effective, integrated and tailored solution for promoting resilience while preventing and treating MHPSS issues on a mass scale.
As part of its capacity-building work, MESPERO aims to fill that void by empowering local populations to adapt their lessons learned from lived experience into scalable, multimedia self-care solutions.
Our mission is to close treatment gaps, increase mental-health literacy, reduce stigmatization and mitigate trauma.
Capacity Building
Our integrated multimedia and Impact Tech approach actively engages those with lived experience. We aim to enhance mental health and psychosocial support while addressing individual and collective trauma in humanitarian settings, via:
Innovative workshops
With diversity and inclusion, on a digital and in-person basis
Human-centered design
Creative, multilingual design process empowering those with lived experience
Multimedia learning
Designing mobile, digital and other interactions with impacted groups
Reaching last-mile
Transformative methods of delivering life-saving information and support
MHPSS PROJECT TEAM
Heather Wokusch, Executive Director of MESPERO, heads this team of multidisciplinary, international and intergenerational mental health advocates. Presented alphabetically; click a box to learn more.
Layla Barakeh
Field Training
Syrian disaster management specialist, MHPSS and livelihood trainer working in
humanitarian settings
humanitarian settings
Jamal Mataan
Interculture
Focus on Youth
On an intergenerational basis, MESPERO develops youth-empowerment and mentoring programs. Enhancing female rights and decreasing gender-based violence are also in scope.
We promote an inclusive approach to self-care which mitigates negative impacts of war, forced migration, the pandemic and other major challenges. We engage youth from disadvantaged demographics and in last-mile settings.
Those with lived experience and service users are actively incorporated into designing our solutions. Unique Impact Tech approaches, such as immersive digital offerings written and performed by youth, are in progress.
Samples
Please click the boxes below to see samples of our multimedia work during the pandemic.
ABOUT
Heather Wokusch, M.A. founded MESPERO and serves as its Executive Director.
Heather’s international career in human resources, education, cross-culture, and media has spanned five continents and multiple fields. A firm believer in Impact Tech and the democratization of knowledge, she is an expert in virtual learning.
Heather designs training programs for corporations, educational institutions, governments and other entities while consulting on intercultural communication and organizational development (including digital transformation, leadership development, employee engagement, change management, strategy, and globalization).
MESPERO is proud to be affiliated with the International Forum for Understanding. Its Executive Director, Les Simm, is a highly-valued partner.
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