Drama Therapy Workshop - Exploring Self, Body, Mind and Mobile Phones

Kaivalya Plays presents

Drama Therapy Workshop

Exploring Self, Body, Mind and Mobile Phones

Facilitated by Shruti Garg and Rakshita Goel. This 2-day drama therapy workshop explores the self, body, mind and mobile phones, using objects, stories, improvisation, movement and body.

Dates: Saturday, 20th August and Sunday, 21st August 2022

Timings: 5pm to 7pm IST on both days.

Participants: Open to all aged 18 and above. No prior experience with drama therapy needed.

Venue: Presented in-person at The Corner, New Rajendra Nagar. (Find it on Google Maps here). Nearest metro station is Rajendra Place on the Blue Line and a 5-min walk away.

Registration: This workshop is priced at INR 1,500 per participant. Prior registration is needed to attend this workshop, walk-ins on the day are also accepted. Learn more and sign up at kaivalyaplays.org/whats-on

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Mobile phones and screens have increasingly become a big part of our everyday lives. Sometimes, they help us

connect and sometimes to disconnect – our bodies unconsciously form an interesting relationship with

these objects. This workshop explores that very relationship with the 'blue screen', through creativity, imagination and play.

This workshop is open to artists, facilitators, social workers, mental health professionals and everyone else who'd like to explore their relationship with their mobile phones through an engaging and creative interplay of arts, drama and therapy-based activities.

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS

Shruti Garg (she/they) is an HCPC UK Regd. Drama Therapist who trained from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Additionally, Shruti is a certified Queer Affirmative Therapist, a comic and a theatre artist, having previously been a part of Kaivalya Play's show Unravel.  As Vice President of the UP Mental Health Council and Founding Director of the Creative Arts Therapies Development Foundation, and Executive Member of Drama Therapy India, Shruti aims to create more opportunities for the application of creative arts therapies across different spaces in India. Shruti loves playing cricket and daydreaming about lifting the world cup trophy in her free time.

Rakshita Goel (she/her) is a licensed Drama Therapist and a certified Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner from Delhi. She did her masters from Roehampton University, UK and completed my EFT training from Vitality Living College. She additionally did a master's in Human Development from MSU, India. She is registered with the United Kingdom’s health care body (HCPC) and the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADTh). She has been practising as a mental health professional since 2016 and has worked extensively with young adults experiencing emotional-behavioural difficulties, abuse and trauma. Her works draw upon exploring the self using creative expressive methods within a therapeutic relationship.

ABOUT THE VENUE

The Corner is an arts and cultural space for the creative community in Delhi NCR. From fun workshops and unique screenings to lively discussions and intimate gatherings, The Corner invites you to engage with the arts in a fun, accessible, safe and interesting way. The Corner has been initiated and is operated by the Kaivalya Plays Foundation.