Loving Ourselves: Mental health & Self-care for Queer and Trans People

 

Valentine's Day and discussions of love and romance elicit mixed emotions in the LGBTIQA+ communities.

While some of us look forward to celebrating the day with our significant others, for others the day seems no more than  a ploy to reinforce heteronormative ideals and further consumer capitalism.

Further, memories of relationships  that have ended,  discomfort with being single, peer pressure, and/or projection of  coupledom as a universal life  goal, can all contribute to angst, the blues, or worse.

Magdalene Jeyarathnam, a noted queer- and trans- affirmative counselor, will facilitate a discussion on romantic relationships, singledom, self-care and coping with the V-day frenzy. Participants are encouraged to share their feelings and seek support in  a non-judgmental and affirming environment.

Saturday, February 13, 2021: 3pm-5pm. Register online at tinyurl.com/saathii-feb13.  

For more information, email leoganguly@saathii.org or call +91 99588 95350

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Love in the time of Corona - An Expressive Arts Online Workshop

Love in the Time of Corona Workshop 

Facilitated by Magdalene Jeyarathnam (India) and Marcia Honig (Israel / Brazil).

At These days, of isolation and imperative distance between individuals, families and social groups, we face a lack of contact and closeness, support and even love. The purpose of the workshop was to enable IAGP members to express their feelings and connect to each other, at those hard moments around the world, due the Covid19. It was a 2 hours session that happened on 4 sundays in April and May. Each of the sessions saw participants from different parts of the world. 

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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

DANCE MOVEMENT THERAPY WORKSHOP| December 14th & 15th, 2019

The focus of the Dance Movement Therapy workshop was on Trauma and Body. It was facilitated by Katia Verreault (Amsterdam) – Group facilitator, Dance movement therapist, Dance instructor and Founder of A Moving World-We dance. Katia is dance movement therapist, special needs teacher trainer, group facilitator and dance instructor with extensive work experience in multi-cultural environments and community settings in the field of specialized education, transcultural psychiatry, trauma, resilience-building and dance movement therapy. 

The first day of the workshop was about Dance Movement Therapy and the participants were taken through how movement can be used therapeutically. The second day's focus was on trauma and the use of DMT for clients with trauma. The participants benefited from the experiential learning that they had and gained different insights about trauma.