Beating the webinar stress - June 19th, 2020

Our Director Magdalene Jeyarathnam facilitated a session on "Beating the Webinar Stress" hosted by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). 

CII is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led and industry-managed organization, with about 9100 members from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs, and an indirect membership of over 300,000 enterprises from 288 national and regional sectoral industry bodies. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the development of India, partnering industry, Government and civil society, through advisory and consultative processes.

The session happened on June 19th, 2020 for an hour and had around 50 participants. There were many discussions on the management of stress as the participants contributed to it by sharing their experience on facing the webinar stress during COVID-19. The session was highly appreciated by everyone.

Find the YouTube link to the video of the session here: 
https://youtu.be/Z1lxJzrKU0k

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Online session on COVID-19 - June, 2020 | Pride month

East West Center for Counselling and Training along with Queer Wings and Nirangal organized an online discussion about COVID 19 for the LGBTQI+ community, commemorating the Pride month. The session in Tamil happened on June 4th, 2020 and the session in English happened on June 14th, 2020. 

The session had a Therapist, Magdalene Jeyarathnam and a Medical professional, 

Dr. P Kuganantham. Dr. P Kuganantham is the Director of SIMS hospital, Nungambakkam and has been on interviews and discussions in news channels such as NDTV and Pudhiya Thalaimurai for the current pandemic. He is also a part of the team for advising medical policies to the Tamil Nadu government. He has worked as a Health Inspector of Chennai and has served as Director of Infectious Diseases hospital, Chennai. He is an Epidemiologist, has worked extensively with HIV AIDS, and has a WHO Fellowship - Epidemiology, Infectious diseases and AIDS from John Hopkins University, USA. 

Both the sessions had a lot of participants who asked doubts on the virus outbreak and steps to be taken for prevention, and who benefitted from the sessions. 

ART THERAPY GROUP SESSIONS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS - During lockdown

Since the lockdown began in March due to COVID 19, East West Center for Counselling and Training has been conducting regular art therapy sessions online for children and adults. These group sessions are ongoing since March and have been providing space for individuals to express their emotions and work through their challenges during this difficult time. 

Our Online Group Art Therapy session "Personal diary of a teenager" for children and teenagers happens every Saturday from 10 AM to 11.30 AM.

Our "Open Art Therapy" sessions for children and adult happen every Monday from 

11 AM to 1 PM.

These are some of the pictures from the ongoing sessions.

Join us if interested.

Contact: 9884700104 / 06

Email: info@centerforcounselling.org

Online art therapy sessions and workshop on Expressive Arts Therapy | During COVID-19 Lockdown

The COVID-19 pandemic that led to the lockdown all around the world has put us all in a pause mode. People all over the world have been staying in their houses to help prevent the spread of the disease. We, at East West Center for Counselling and Training, took swift action and planned for ART THERAPY SESSIONS ONLINE in order to help people manage their emotions in this trying times. Our first session happened this Monday (06/04/2020) and we had participants coming from 8 different cities. The online art therapy sessions will happen every Monday till the lockdown is lifted.

We also planned and arranged a LOCKDOWN SPECIAL WORKSHOP on Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy for students and professionals who can make use of this time to learn a new therapy and gain knowledge. The workshop had participants from 11 different cities across the world!