Breaking the Mask: Authenticity, Healing, & Mental Wellness for Black Women

SP360 Lambeth hosts monthly workshops in Clapham on the 3rd Thursday of each month. 

These gatherings are part of a Black women's empowerment programme, where members choose topics they believe will offer them support, information and guidance for personal growth and community enrichment.

For our April workshop, we’ve invited Mental Wellbeing & Transformational Coach, Maz Alexander to lead you through a supportive and empowering workshop called 'Breaking the Mask: Authenticity, Healing, and Mental Wellness for Black Women'.

Maz Alexander is a Mental Wellbeing and transformational Coach, Social Worker, Mother, Speaker and Author based in South London. She supports busy professionals and care givers develop and maintain healthy boundaries so that they can implement the self-care they need to live balanced, authentic and fulfilled lives.

For more deatils about Maz, see here: https://linktr.ee/mazwellbeing

What the workshop is about

This is a powerful and transformative session designed to explore the emotional, cultural, and societal pressures that often lead Black women to hide behind a “mask” of strength, resilience, and self‑sacrifice.

The session examines how historical narratives, workplace expectations, and community roles can shape an identity centered on perfection and silence—often at the expense of mental and emotional wellbeing.

Grounded in culturally responsive mental health principles, this presentation invites participants to reflect on the origins of these masks, understand their impact, and engage in practical strategies for reclaiming authenticity. Through storytelling, guided activities, and evidence‑informed wellness practices, the session promotes healing, self‑compassion, and emotional freedom.

Ultimately, Breaking the Mask empowers Black women to redefine wellness on their own terms, embrace vulnerability as strength, build supportive connections, and cultivate holistic wellbeing rooted in self-love, community care, and liberation.

You will walk away with:

1. A Deeper Understanding of Why Self‑Care Is Essential

· Insight into the unique pressures Black women face.

· Recognition that rest, healing, and boundaries are not luxuries but necessities.

2. Practical Tools for Protecting Your Mental Wellbeing

· Strategies to recognise burnout, emotional fatigue, and stress.

· Techniques for grounding, mindfulness, and emotional regulation.

3. Confidence in Setting Boundaries Without Guilt

· Language you can use to set healthy, firm boundaries.

· Reassurance that saying “no” is a form of self‑respect and not a failure.

4. A Personalised Self‑Care Plan

· A clear, realistic routine for daily, weekly, and monthly care.

· Awareness of what nourishes your joy, peace, and emotional health.

5. A Sense of Connection, Belonging, and Sisterhood

· Shared stories, shared experiences, and shared healing.

· The affirmation that you are seen, heard, valued, and not alone.

6. A Shift in Mindset about Strength and Vulnerability

· Understanding that vulnerability does not diminish your power.

· Permission to rest, slow down, and choose yourself with compassion.

Come with an open mind and something to take notes on!

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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