We offer a systemic customized and well-researched curriculum that provides non-judgmental, safe and exploratory spaces
Each session is facilitated by two qualified arts therapists / psychologists who help the children process and reflect on their internal journeys.
Emotionally healthy schools develop a climate where everyone is valued, motivated and inspired to achieve. This climate develops social, emotional and behavioural skills that enhance learning. As only 7% of verbal communication is absorbed, much more is done through action and body language. Therefore we use the expressive arts, movement, gestures, drama, art and other modalities to help children in achieving emotional health in the most optimum way.
- As the students’ Emotional Quotient enhances, classroom management becomes easier.
- As the programme helps children cope with stress, it’s unlikely that they would make poor life style choices such as substance misuse, self-harming behaviours, social media addiction etc.
- The programme will promote the development of self-esteem and help the child maintain good levels of emotional health.
- As most adult success comes from emotional ability along with their cognitive ability, this programme will help in children’s achievement by raising their emotional intelligence.
- This programme helps in proactive strategies that promote positive behaviour, peaceful conflict resolution and mental health. This with the existing reactive strategies will equip the school in reducing challenging behaviour.
Project Reflect was founded by Anshuma Kshetrapal and Preetha Ramasubramanian, who are leaders in the field of creative arts psychotherapy in India.
They conceptualized this program when they realized that more value can be added to the current school system, where in bullying, discrimination, behavioral issues and lack of sensitivity was being looked at from a reactive and corrective approach, rather than a preventive approach.
This lead them to address the larger issue of societal wellness and also felt that the right place to start are from the formation stage of such ideas, from schools, addressing children.
Both of them have decades of experience in working with children, in India and abroad and they understand the gaps when it comes to holistic wellness, emotional intelligence and mental health.
So instead of preventive methodologies, they derived a curriculum that addressed the root of the problem that will help the children look within and around them with enhanced emotional intelligence, empathy, sensitivity, a sense of inclusivity and kindness. This program seeks to bring in change in the emotional environment of the entire school through harnessing the non-threatening, exploratory, common language of the arts.
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