ONLINE GROUP SESSIONS FOR CHILDREN DURING LOCKDOWN - All Saturdays

We are conducting online sessions for children who feel stuck and confined at home during this lockdown. Many reports say that children could get bored, exhausted and sometimes even depressed during this lockdown. Psychiatrist Diego Figuera, Madrid also says that there is a big risk of boredom to turn into apathy as there is lack of physical movement and varieties in the day to day activities among the children. 

To help the children connect to their problems, give voice to their emotions, and to learn techniques to heal we are organizing these sessions. Main focus is on to help the children engage during lock-down, behavior management, relationship issues, improve concentration /focus, anger and aggression management, goal setting, increasing social skills and increasing self esteem. 

Creating collaborative art as therapy - Online | During COVID - 19 lockdown

Collaborative art making online - fun, connecting and just being!

This was a group art done online through Zoom in one of our classes in Expressive Arts Therapy Certificate course. 

This is an Online group art activity that was done in our Lockdown special workshop on Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy. The participants were asked to express in words or drawings, their experience in today's session. You can see how it evolved!

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! 

Workshop on "Queer Counselling" organised by Chennai Counselor's Foundation, January 15th 2020

The workshop was organised by Chennai Counselor's Foundation on the topic "Queer Counselling" which was conducted by Ms. Magdalene Jeyarathnam. The workshop was held on the 15th of January, 2020 from 3pm to 6pm.
Ms. Magdalene Jeyarathnam is the founder of East West Center for Counselling and Training and Indian Institute of Psychodrama.

Understanding Human Sexuality and Gender Identity: Towards an Inclusive and a Sensitive Church- January 27th- 28th, 2020

This was a joint program organised by the Martin Luther Christian University, Shillong in collaboration with the ESHA project of the National Council of Churches in India, Nagpur. The program took place in the MLCU campus in Shillong on the 27th to the 28th of January, 2020.

Ms. Magdalene Jeyarathnam, Director of Indian Institute of Psychodrama and East West Center of Counselling and Training, as part of the NCCI team facilitated a two day workshop on '' Understanding definitions and Medical perspectives related to Human Sexuality and Gender Identities" and Self Analysis. The sessions were conducted for all the faculty of MLCU and their PhD scholars.


For further information: http://www.mlcuniv.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=449:understanding-human-sexuality-and-gender-identity-towards-an-inclusive-and-sensitive-church&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=132

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. 

Expressive Arts Therapy Workshop, Week 3 - 23/11/2019

This week's Expressive Arts Therapy workshop was about theory and practice. The different modalities used were Arts, Psychodrama and Movement. The participants took part enthusiastically and had a good time with a lot of learning.