Are you working in recovering mental health and building resilience?

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We bring innovative and out-of-the-box solutions to your interventions.

Actxal helps your organization by developing and adapting creative solutions to ensure your outcomes on mental health and resilience – building.

What set us apart

We focus on pragmatism

Delivering outcomes more effectively by developing critical thinking and managing change to realize the full potential of MHPSS and Resilience – Building teams.

We have a system

We carefully study and create new methodologies and holistically adapt existing approaches.

We are methodical

We actively avoid providing a “one size fits all” model solution for every challenge faced by MHPSS and Resilience – Building program.

Why work with us? 

We offer innovative solutions that are at the finest art of systems thinking, dynamic process and relational problem solving models and techniques, which allow us to mobilize your teams towards out-of-the-box solutions.

Skills Development

The success and sustainability of your mental health and resilience-building interventions relies upon the appropriate skills and capacities of your staff This is why for us, skills development is about identifying key knowledge, practices and attitudes gaps to equip MHPSS and resilience-building teams with the necessary skill sets, tools and frameworks to tackle intervention issues.

Monitoring & Evaluation systems design

Mental health and resilience-building outcomes often involve complex and multifaceted changes in individuals' well-being, attitudes, and behaviors. Unlike more tangible outcomes, project teams struggle to find appropriate indicators that capture the nuances of mental health or resilience improvements, leading to uncertainty in measurement and indicators analysis.

MHPSS and resilience-building interventions planning

In order to overcome the obstacles related with beneficiary behavior invariability, crisis relapse, emotional involution and social maladaptation among others, our support focuses in a system-wide planning approach to enhance congruence among the impact, outcomes and psychosocial intervention processes.

MH and resilience-building needs assessments

MHPSS and resilience-building are qualitative areas that need specific models of data-gathering, data analysis and findings synthesis.

To determine how a particular problem evolves in terms of MHPSS and resilience-building, the standard assessment guides recommended in most of the humanitarian and development handbooks are not sufficient.

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News

  • New training in MHPSS assessment design.

    We have received several demands for a training on assessing mental health and resilience building issues.
    We have then put together the first training in MHPSS assessment design, analysis and management of the data gathered.
    This training will fill the gaps of several MHPSS monitoring manuals since it combines the psychometric technical aspects of the mental health assessments and the fundamentals of data analysis and data management.

    Know more about this thrilling training.

     

  • Why war? A letter from Freud to Einstein

    You begin with the relations between Might and Right, and this is assuredly the proper starting-point for our enquiry. But, for the term "might", I would substitute a tougher and more telling word: "violence". In right and violence we have today an obvious antinomy. It is easy to prove that one has evolved from the other...

    Conflicts of interest between man and man are resolved, in principle, by recourse to violence. It is the same in the animal kingdom, from which man cannot claim exclusion; nevertheless men are also prone to conflicts of opinion, touching, on occasion, the loftiest peaks of abstract thought, which seem to call for settlement by quite another method. This refinement is, however, a late development.

    To start with, brute force was the factor which, in small communities, decided points of ownership and the question of which man's will was to prevail. Very soon physical force was implemented, then replaced, by the use of various adjuncts; he proved the victor whose weapon was the better, or handled the more skilfully.

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  • Blood/Lust: Freud and the Trauma of Killing in War

    In this interesting paper Nolen Gertz offers some reflections based on treatment of soldiers done by early psychoanalysts.

    Blood/Lust: Freud and the Trauma of Killing in War

    While the First World War proved to be a time of unimaginable loss and tragedy that left humanity forever terrified of its capacity to annihilate, for Freud and his followers this same period was seen as a rather fertile one, as it led psychoanalysis to its greatest expansion and its most profound innovation. Though Freud’s productivity was mostly due to his having received an enforced sabbatical from his patients, for the younger generation it was their treatment of soldiers during the war that made their contributions to the theoretical development of the psychoanalytic corpus possible.

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