# AI & Mental Health: From Personal Journeys to Collective Action
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we live and work — but what role can it play in supporting mental health and well-being?
In this special session, we’ll explore how AI can be applied at three different levels:
- For Individuals: tools that help with self-awareness, resilience, and daily well-being.
- For Communities: shared practices and support networks that ensure AI is used responsibly and compassionately.
- For Teams & Companies: creating healthier, more adaptive workplaces where mental health is a core part of performance and sustainability.
Dr. Dave Braendler and Ravi Shamihoke will share their personal journeys of using AI for mental well-being, and how those lessons are now being translated into practical frameworks for communities, teams, and leaders. This isn’t theory—it’s lived experience meeting technical innovation.
We’ll also discuss how Product Foundry runs communities of AI Builders, Explorers, Content Creators, and Automation Experts. These groups are actively generating best practices, frameworks, and methodologies that accelerate the development of responsible, human-centered AI tools. By connecting this technical depth with one of society’s most urgent needs—mental health—we can start building real solutions together.
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## The AI & Mental Health Circle
This Meetup will also launch our new AI & Mental Health Circle—a dedicated group focused on exploring, testing, and shaping the next generation of tools for mental well-being. Our work will span everything from assisted therapy and coaching tools, through to immersive approaches like virtual reality for healing and connection.
Our guiding belief is simple:
> Healing doesn’t happen because of a new intellectual understanding—it happens when you feel safe enough to bring what was hidden into the light of presence, yours and another’s.
AI offers us new opportunities to connect people with themselves, with others, and with their communities. But this must be done with care, integrity, and a deep respect for human dignity.
The circle will bring together mental health professionals, technologists, ethicists, and people with lived experience to:
- Define the most urgent problems where AI could make a real difference.
- Co-create safe, effective applications—from practical tools to long-term innovations.
- Establish the ethical guardrails and values that must guide this work.
This event is open to everyone with an interest in mental health and technology—from professionals to advocates to those with lived experience. It’s also a chance to learn how you can get involved as a founding member of the AI & Mental Health Circle.
If this resonates with you, explore more here:
👉 AI & Mental Health Initiative
