This Aao Suno session with Dr. Humair Yusuf will explore questions like: what purpose do our emotions serve? How do they interact with reason and logic? How do they work together and how do they work against each other? How can we develop a healthy relationship with our emotions?

About the facilitator: Dr. Humair Yusuf is a counselling psychologist and psychotherapist based in Karachi who works with individuals, couples and families. As a visiting faculty member at the Department of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts at IBA he has taught classes that explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, age, disability and religion in mental health and wellbeing, His research focuses on cultural factors underlying explanatory models and representations of distress. He is involved with a number of mental health initiatives throughout Pakistan.