Marking IDPD 2025 with TCI Global

Experiencing Individual and Collective Support for Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities Through the Body

As a movement of persons with psychosocial disabilities, TCI Global values spaces that honour our emotions, our realities, allow us to recharge, and celebrate our creative ways of being. TCI brought together members to such a space to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) 2025.

This was not a formal workshop or a structured meeting. Instead, it was a place to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with our bodies, with our feelings, and with each other. As a global movement, we often carry many responsibilities, stories, and struggles. This space reminded us that healing, creativity, connection and community care are also tools that sustain our activism.

Through simple body-based practices led by our member OPD, ALCE (Colombia), represented by Silvestre Barragán, we explored how our bodies hold memory, connection, and support. By using art, breath, and movement, we honoured our individual stories while recognizing our shared strength as a global movement for the rights, dignity, and freedom of persons with psychosocial disabilities.

This gathering reminded us that our bodies are not just sites of constant struggle, but also places of resisting, rising, and reimagining.

Here’s a small glimpse into this beautiful shared experience.