Workshops
The intent of our workshops is to help provide an experience of and explore a realm of learning possibilities using the Arts and how these can be used in working with children. It is also to challenge belief systems, push boundaries and create a symbiotic learning relationship within and with the world around. For this we introduce a vocabulary of creative arts-based techniques.
Some Workshops we have conducted
Conscious Connections- Christ University, Bannerghatta Road Campus
Around 350 students belonging from the Media Studies Department of Christ University, Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bangalore exchanged ideas, opinions and sentiments about what is it to be in an inclusive society and how Arts can serve in this inclusion for each and every one of us.
India Inclusion Summit- Art for Inclusion (AFI) in Conversation
We conversed with the winners of Art for Inclusion (AFI 2019) and the Founder of India Inclusion Summit, Mr. Ferose, along with his volunteers, as a part of the AFI In Conversation Series, organized by India Inclusion Summit.
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Prameya- Mile Sur Mera Tumhaara
Impart working with Prameya’s FENS Cancer Support Programme to forge a path to recovery by embodying the Arts with the participants of the Sahai Programme.
Prameya- SAHAI Reboot Your Life
This programme is curated to help cancer survivors get back to ” their normal ” routines. The sessions look at Functional, Emotional, Nutritional and Spiritual approach to wellbeing.
Prav at Christ University, Bannerghatta Campus, Bangalore
The workshop looked at facilitating social inclusion through expressive arts therapies and the benefits of creative therapies in personal and professional circles.
Sahai FENS , an initiative by Prameya Health, Bangalore
The drum circle was facilitated for women who are undergoing treatment for cancer and those who have completed their treatment.
Miri Piri Academy at Vana, Dehradun
The session on drumming titled ‘Exploring the Joy within’ saw the students of Miri Piri Academy come together and drum for the first time.
Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), Nepal
The session focused on Counselling through the Arts. The aim was to look at effective, reflective listening and communication beyond speech.
Transcultural Psychosocial Organization, Nepal
This workshop was designed for participants who are undergoing a year-long counselling training on working in conflict areas with children and their families.
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
This workshop was designed for the post graduate students studying Psychology and saw over 30 participants come together to understand Arts Practices for Inclusion.
Brindavan Parent Support Group
The Parent Support Group session at Brindavan Education Society saw energetic participation and much curiosity among the participants about how the arts can be experienced and used to open spaces for dialogue.
International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Nurturing Children and Youth (ICCY-2019), Bangalore.
The workshop titled ‘Arts Practices for Inclusion’ saw students, therapists, staff from organisations working in social inclusion fields come together to experience the application of arts to create a sense of belonging and inclusion.
Academyati, Doha
In a presentation at Academyati, we shared our Arts Practices for Inclusion model by getting the group to dance and sing together.
Kalasamvaad at the Conferencia International@Lincoln School, Buenos Aires
The workshop titled Kalasamvaad – Creative Dialogues was one of the biggest groups we have worked with. The group of about 100 participants that included educators, professionals,organisational heads,therapists from organisations across Argentina.
Casa Angelman, Tigre, Argentina
Sri Aurobindo School Of Integral Education, Chandigarh 2019
Sri Aurobindo School Of Integral Education, Chandigarh is an English-medium Co-educational school based on the principles of education as enunciated by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The school strives to provide integral and holistic education by incorporating modern tools of teaching with traditional methods of learning. We engaged with the teachers through our program ‘Mandala- Dialogue Circles through the Arts’ with workshops spanning three months.
Azim Premji University, Bangalore, 2019
Azim Premji University was established in Karnataka by the Azim Premji University Act 2010 as a not-for-profit University with a clearly stated social purpose. Our Executive Director, Gitanjali Sarangan was a speaker at the 2nd Round Table ‘Reaching out: Towards a relevant response to Mental Health’, on 5th April 2019 at Bengaluru, Karnataka organized by the Health, Development and Society Initiative, Centre for Counselling Services and Student Support Committee of Azim Premji University.
St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, 2018
St. John’s Medical College is a private religious minority medical college and hospital situated in Bangalore, established with the aim of training healthcare personnel committed to serving the poor in the margins. impART pioneered the first ever session that introduced Arts Based Therapy (ABT) as a Complementary Health Practice with the Unit of Hope and the Department of Humanities in St John’s Medical College Hospital.
Mirra, Chennai, 2018
Having seen what effective inclusion could do to children with needs, the urge to reach out to a larger section of children and schools resulted in Mirra Charitable Trust. We facilitated a session on ‘Mindfulness through the Arts’ with the 4th Batch of Shraddha, a six month certificate course conducted by Mirra, Chennai as 12 participants received their certification.
Small Wonders School, Mohali, 2018
Located in Phase 7 Mohali, Small Wonders Schools is a welcoming, bright space for children from play class to UKG. We launched our impART sessions with Small Wonders School, Mohali through our program titled ‘Creative Interventions in Re-imagining Classrooms through Dialogue Circles’.
Salaam Baalak Trust, Delhi, 2018
Salaam Baalak Trust is an NGO in Delhi that aims to provide a sensitive and caring environment to street & working children and other children on the margins of society. We had the opportunity of taking our program Maitri – Caring for the Caregivers to Aasra Children home of Salaam Baalak at Najafgarh, Delhi.
Sri Aurobindo School Of Integral Education, Chandigarh 2018
Sri Aurobindo School Of Integral Education, Chandigarh is an English-medium Co-educational school in Chandigarh that strives to provide integral and holistic education by incorporating modern tools of teaching with traditional methods of learning. We got an opportunity to introduce our program ‘Mandala- Dialogue Circles through the Arts’ to a lively group of teachers.
Life Foundation-Charar-i-sharief, Kashmir 2018
Life Foundation is a private School in Charar i Sharief, Kashmir. We got the opportunity to address the passing out Tenth Grade Batch. Gitanjali Sarangan got the group to see the power of learning using the Arts with the 10th graders repeating a Tamil song. Our message to the group was to be that warrior who fights with gentleness and fearlessness outside and within. We also got to do a session with the little ones at the school.
Amrit Somani Memorial Centre, Kolkatta, 2018
Amrit Somani Memorial Center (ASMC) is a private, nonprofit intervention center in Kolkata for children with Developmental Delays. At ASMC we applied the principles of the science of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to teach autistic children in the center, home, school and community. What was interesting in this engagement was to see two absolutely different schools of thought coming together with the objective to re-imagine what it means to look at ways of creating empathetic therapeutic spaces for children with ASD. We challenged belief systems, we broke myths, we agreed to disagree and we celebrated differences. There are times in our lives where it is hard to say who is the facilitator and who is the student. One such experience where the right view precedes the method. This session in ASMC was truly in the spirit of inclusion- as we defined it to the gift of presence.
Heritage School, Kolkatta, 2018
International Play Conference, Bangalore, 2018
Shraddha, Chennai, 2018
SDMC, Delhi, 2017
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, 2017
Association of Experiential Education, Montreal, 2017
Ushering the PGP Batch of 2017-2019 at IIM Bangalore, 2017
Reussir Trust, Bangalore, 2017
Gopalan National School, Bangalore, 2017
ENTRUST DISABILITY SERVICES, EDMONTON, CANADA,2017
Sankalp, Chennai, 2016, 2017
Gopalan International School, Bangalore, 2017
Tapovan, Bangalore, 2016
AATAPI, Gujarat,2016
SCAN-SPECIAL CHILD ASSISTANCE NETWORK, Chennai, 2016
Hope Early Intervention Session, Bangalore, 2016
APSA, Bangalore, 2015
Brindavan Trust, Bangalore,2014
Insight Academy, Bangalore, 2014
Bubbles Autism Centre, Bangalore,2013
HLC International, Chennai,2013
Kalasamvaad at the Conferencia International@Lincoln School, Buenos Aires
The workshop titled Kalasamvaad – Creative Dialogues was one of the biggest groups we have worked with. The group of about 100 participants that included educators, professionals,organisational heads,therapists from organisations across Argentina.
Casa Angelman, Tigre, Argentina
Sri Aurobindo School Of Integral Education, Chandigarh 2019
Sri Aurobindo School Of Integral Education, Chandigarh is an English-medium Co-educational school based on the principles of education as enunciated by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The school strives to provide integral and holistic education by incorporating modern tools of teaching with traditional methods of learning. We engaged with the teachers through our program ‘Mandala- Dialogue Circles through the Arts’ with workshops spanning three months.
Azim Premji University, Bangalore, 2019
Azim Premji University was established in Karnataka by the Azim Premji University Act 2010 as a not-for-profit University with a clearly stated social purpose. Our Executive Director, Gitanjali Sarangan was a speaker at the 2nd Round Table ‘Reaching out: Towards a relevant response to Mental Health’, on 5th April 2019 at Bengaluru, Karnataka organized by the Health, Development and Society Initiative, Centre for Counselling Services and Student Support Committee of Azim Premji University.
St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, 2018
St. John’s Medical College is a private religious minority medical college and hospital situated in Bangalore, established with the aim of training healthcare personnel committed to serving the poor in the margins. impART pioneered the first ever session that introduced Arts Based Therapy (ABT) as a Complementary Health Practice with the Unit of Hope and the Department of Humanities in St John’s Medical College Hospital.
Mirra, Chennai, 2018
Having seen what effective inclusion could do to children with needs, the urge to reach out to a larger section of children and schools resulted in Mirra Charitable Trust. We facilitated a session on ‘Mindfulness through the Arts’ with the 4th Batch of Shraddha, a six month certificate course conducted by Mirra, Chennai as 12 participants received their certification.
Small Wonders School, Mohali, 2018
Located in Phase 7 Mohali, Small Wonders Schools is a welcoming, bright space for children from play class to UKG. We launched our impART sessions with Small Wonders School, Mohali through our program titled ‘Creative Interventions in Re-imagining Classrooms through Dialogue Circles’.
Salaam Baalak Trust, Delhi, 2018
Salaam Baalak Trust is an NGO in Delhi that aims to provide a sensitive and caring environment to street & working children and other children on the margins of society. We had the opportunity of taking our program Maitri – Caring for the Caregivers to Aasra Children home of Salaam Baalak at Najafgarh, Delhi.
Sri Aurobindo School Of Integral Education, Chandigarh 2018
Sri Aurobindo School Of Integral Education, Chandigarh is an English-medium Co-educational school in Chandigarh that strives to provide integral and holistic education by incorporating modern tools of teaching with traditional methods of learning. We got an opportunity to introduce our program ‘Mandala- Dialogue Circles through the Arts’ to a lively group of teachers.
Life Foundation-Charar-i-sharief, Kashmir 2018
Life Foundation is a private School in Charar i Sharief, Kashmir. We got the opportunity to address the passing out Tenth Grade Batch. Gitanjali Sarangan got the group to see the power of learning using the Arts with the 10th graders repeating a Tamil song. Our message to the group was to be that warrior who fights with gentleness and fearlessness outside and within. We also got to do a session with the little ones at the school.
Amrit Somani Memorial Centre, Kolkatta, 2018
Amrit Somani Memorial Center (ASMC) is a private, nonprofit intervention center in Kolkata for children with Developmental Delays. At ASMC we applied the principles of the science of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to teach autistic children in the center, home, school and community. What was interesting in this engagement was to see two absolutely different schools of thought coming together with the objective to re-imagine what it means to look at ways of creating empathetic therapeutic spaces for children with ASD. We challenged belief systems, we broke myths, we agreed to disagree and we celebrated differences. There are times in our lives where it is hard to say who is the facilitator and who is the student. One such experience where the right view precedes the method. This session in ASMC was truly in the spirit of inclusion- as we defined it to the gift of presence.