Welcome to our Expressive Therapy Corner
As a firm believer of eclectic healing, a major share of Deestha Foundation deals with expressive therapy which uses various forms of creative expression such as art, music, dance, writing and drama, to help people explore and transform difficult emotional and medical conditions.
The field of Expressive Arts Therapy (EXA) was founded in the early 1970’s by Shaun McNiff, Paolo Knill and others at Lesley University Graduate School in Cambridge, MA. It emphasized an interdisciplinary or “intermodal” approach to the use of the arts for healing, based on an established psychological framework. Use of the expressive arts expands the avenues by which a person may seek meaning, clarity, and healing. It deepens and transcends traditional talk therapy by acknowledging that each person’s process is unique. This does not require the person to have prior experience or artistic ability. The focus is not on artistic outcomes but rather on creating.
That’s why the process is also called,” Low Skill, High Sensitivity”. Expressive Therapy has been extremely effective in treating conditions like ADHD, Eating Disorders, Trauma, Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Self-Esteem, PTSD, Conflict resolution, Relationship issues and Chronic medical illness. Expressive arts therapy is used with children and adults, as individuals or in groups, to nurture deep personal growth and transformation. Because art comes from a deep emotional place inside, creative process becomes our road to emotional health.
We use different forms of art to not only help one heal, but, also to create unique acts and programmes involving people who themselves are mental health warriors (domestic violence, cancer patients, depression patients etc.), making the entire journey therapeutic. Also, the issues are selected based on what needs social as well as individual attention, thereby reaching out to more and more people with our healing techniques. And, when we say art forms, its not limited to music, painting, dance and drama. We have extended it to travelling, photography, cooking, crafts and many more.
Have a look through some of our programmes and acts!
In Deestha, we use different Art forms as a medium of healing. So may it be recitation, anchoring, acting, dancing, playing instruments or singing, these are not only to showcase talents, but also to create awareness and subconsciously heal to. To keep this going, we have launched, Deestha Sanskriti. This is a pool of people, primarily our members, who will be selected on to different projects based on suitability, and their availability. Hence, location is not a concern. Our intent is to create more projects thereby providing opportunities for everyone, because everyone deserves to Heal! Meet our Team.
