The Telepsychiatry Research and Innovation Network (TRIN) conducted a participatory co-design session at BRAC Centre Inn, Mohakhali, Dhaka, bringing together climate-displaced women to collaboratively develop a neuroscience-informed mental health training program designed specifically for and with the women themselves.
The session created a safe, empathetic space for participants to share their personal journeys of climate displacement — including the psychological, social, and economic challenges they have faced. Researchers listened actively to these lived experiences to identify common themes around trauma, resilience, coping, and barriers to wellbeing.
Drawing directly from the women's voices and insights, the co-design process explored feasible and culturally appropriate ways to address the mental health needs of climate-displaced women through a neuroscience-informed training framework — one that helps participants understand their own stress responses, trauma reactions, and pathways to resilience in accessible, non-clinical language.
By placing climate-displaced women at the centre of the program development process, this initiative ensures that the resulting training will be grounded in the realities of those it is designed to serve.
