This presentation highlights our work as Creative Arts Therapy Facilitators in Mental Health Care.Our work focuses on direct service , training and research and can include facilitating group and individual sessions, intake, evaluations, assessment, research and publication, outreach and community education, training of staff and volunteers, referrals and documentation.

1. An Experiential Journey
of
Creative Arts Therapy
SONALI SENROY
&
PRIYA SENROY

2. Anubhav means ‘ to experience’
It is a technique where, the facilitator and the
individual goes on a journey together.
To explore, experience and rediscover
the lost treasures of
the inner self.

3. It is a symbolic approach
It places emphasis that emotions and feelings
can be expressed through metaphors.

4. .
Anubhav creates a non-threatening and
non-confrontational space
For expression and communication,
For those who wish to imagine, to elaborate and to
transform things around them.

5. It seeks to discover how
Drama,Movement,Non-verbal
communication,Music,Art and Story
can be used alternative techniques of
expression

6. Our clients have included
Children, young adults and at risk youths
in special schools and community programs.

7. Individuals recovering from
Domestic violence ,Substance abuse and
Trafficking.
In hospitals, mental health settings, forensic
and rehabilitation centres.

8. In this
improvisation, a
group of children
with special
needs became the
three wise men
during a
Christmas
enactment.

9. Here a teen
recovering in a
hospital has drawn
a picture of a
flower as a
metaphor to
represent her
Eating disorder
and the sun
symbolising
herself

10. Taking part in
an
improvisation,
a group of
young adults
with learning
disabilities
are enacting
the emotion
of joy

11. In this slide children who are survivors of domestic violence have used these objects
to express the creative arts experiential journey they undertook while working on
recovering from the trauma of witnessing the violence.
Here they used the magician and the bridge to represent the facilitator and the
medium while the clay ‘blobs’ and dolls represented their past ,their inner and
their present selves.

12. In this slide , this underprivileged 16 year old used collage to express the
different facets of herself using different colours and textures. Being a survivor
of domestic violence , the client was able to work through her trauma and is
now a trainee in a Dance therapy course.

13. A 12 year old makes a puppet to
dramatise a piece on self awareness.

14. In this group work, the clients take part in a guided movement piece of being
in a bubble which represents the personal space. The external pressures of the
society causes the bubble to shrink, pushing down on them. The end result is
to make the self strong enough to resist these pressures which once forced
them to becomes victims of trafficking. The clients belong to a children’s home
in Kolkata India.

15. In this individual session, this 13 year old makes a red mask to show the anger
she has been harbouring in herself against her parents. Her father tried to kill
her three times for being a girl child and her mother rejected her due to family
pressure. She stays in the children's shelter home in Kolkata ,India.

16. These masks are a
part of the
dramatic session
where a group of
senior women
living in an old age
home took part in a
myths and legends
workshop. Theseus
and Minotaur was
adapted to suit the
Indian cultural
scenario.

17. A young adult
incarcerated in
an Indian prison
made a mask to
express the range
of emotions that
he was feelings
as has was
recovering from
substance abuse.

18. Part of a multicultural women's group performance, in England,
the enactment represented the conflict and pain caused as a
result of migration and associated mental health issues.

19. We offer training and workshops for:
*Professionals *Educators *Organizations

20. Supervisors and managers participating
in our personal development workshop

21. Caregivers and front line workers taking
part in our professional development
workshop

22. OUR CONTACT
SONALI SENROY
sonalisenroy@yahoo.co.in
PRIYA SENROY
senroycounselling@gmail.com
www.senroycounselling.com