MENTAL Sweatbands for Dedicated Dorks
Dork Dancing is a workout & a mental health statement. We think sweatbands can help. For Dork Dancers who attend 10 or more of our events, we are giving away free MENTAL #dorkdancing sweatbands as a way of saying thanks, while celebrating impressive accomplishment.
Dancing out in the open public with strangers is no easy feat, and doing so 10 times in the name of mental health, to us, signals dedication to something greater: most likely, our cause, practice, & community. That’s MENTAL.
Here’s our hope with the sweatbands: they will help spread mental health awareness and contribute to our dorky culture of mental health openness, while encouraging folks to continue to join our events.
Wearing MENTAL on our heads, in shared advocacy, feels different than being categorized as it by others. Instead of weighing us down, the idea lifts us up. We are MENTAL in the best way. Crazy for daring to be, or do, something different. For not being trapped by dogma — other peoples’ way of thinking. For lightening the shame & rejecting the stigma.
The mission of our sweatband shares the same objectives as our photo storytelling project: Call us MENTAL. Both work to normalize MENTAL issues. Really, MENTAL can be good or bad, it’s up to us to define.
Dedicated dork dancers are mental health advocates, actively standing for a cause larger than themselves. The least we can do is help them show their pride for the cause they are dancing for while helping with that excess sweat (and securing some nice discounts at local restaurants too!).
It’s not just for them, and it’s not just for others. The reason that brings us all together at Dork Dancing, that’s for MENTAL health
Dork Dancing depends entirely on charitable giving. We hope you may consider supporting. We offer some fun rewards too.