Vidhya Shenoy

Program Facilitator Joel Gluck - MEd, RDT, USA

“A unique form of psychotherapy in which creativity, play, movement, voice, storytelling, dramatisation, and the performance arts have a central position within the therapeutic relationship.”Dramatherapy is the heir to the ancient shamanic traditions of healing through ritual drama. Dramatherapy has been defined by Sue Jennings as “the specific application of theatre structures and drama processes with a declared intention that it is therapy.”Moreno defined psychodrama as “the… Show more “A unique form of psychotherapy in which creativity, play, movement, voice, storytelling, dramatisation, and the performance arts have a central position within the therapeutic relationship.”Dramatherapy is the heir to the ancient shamanic traditions of healing through ritual drama. Dramatherapy has been defined by Sue Jennings as “the specific application of theatre structures and drama processes with a declared intention that it is therapy.”Moreno defined psychodrama as “the science which explores the truth by dramatic methods. It deals with inter-personal relations and private worlds.” (from a paper read at the American Psychiatric Association in Chicago on May 30th 1946).These two creative action methods of therapy overlap and I use which ever techniques seem to be useful to a particular person at that stage in their therapy. Show less

Vrudhi Research Foundation

Activities and Societies: Conducted Life-Skills Workshops in various schools in Mumbai Conducted LIFE SKILLS workshops in various shools in Mumbai for the academic year 2014-2015.We were trained by Vrudhi Research Foundation in conducting workshops for children on topics like peer pressure, television viewing and advertisements, substance abuse and recycling.

University of Mumbai

Activities and Societies: Utkarsh- Literary Fest Graduation in Psychology

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Laban Movement Analysis provides a rich overview of the scope of movement possibilities. These basic elements can be used for generating movement or for describing movement. They provide an inroad to understanding movement and for developing movement efficiency and expressiveness. Each human being combines these movement factors in his/her own unique way and organizes them to create phrases and relationships which reveal personal, artistic, or cultural style. (Peggy Hackney, Making… Show more Laban Movement Analysis provides a rich overview of the scope of movement possibilities. These basic elements can be used for generating movement or for describing movement. They provide an inroad to understanding movement and for developing movement efficiency and expressiveness. Each human being combines these movement factors in his/her own unique way and organizes them to create phrases and relationships which reveal personal, artistic, or cultural style. (Peggy Hackney, Making Connections)Laban Movement Analysis was developed by Rudolf Laban (1879-1958). Combined with Irmgard Bartenieff’s (1890 – 1981) contributions to the Body category, the LMA/BF work is a living system that continues to evolve.“Men and women develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world withwhich and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality but as areality in the process of transformation.” Show less

Sancheti Orthopedic Research Institute & College of Physiotherapy, Pune

Activities and Societies: 2 day workshop with faculties and facilitators from the USA based DMT Training Institution called Kinections about 26 years old.

Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University

Activities and Societies: Yuva Mahotsav - Classical Solo Dance. As part of my M.A. Honours:Teachers Assistantship- I taught General Psycholgy to F.Y.B.A. students in Smt. M.M.P. Shah Women's College of Arts and Commerce.Coaching and Mentoring- I was a Coach and a Mentor to a student of T.Y.B.A. Psychology in Smt. M.M.P. Shah Women's College of Arts and Commerce.As part of my Post Graduation Dissertation:A research on the topic: "A comparitive study of the effect of formal musical training on Academic Performance and Emotional… Show more As part of my M.A. Honours:Teachers Assistantship- I taught General Psycholgy to F.Y.B.A. students in Smt. M.M.P. Shah Women's College of Arts and Commerce.Coaching and Mentoring- I was a Coach and a Mentor to a student of T.Y.B.A. Psychology in Smt. M.M.P. Shah Women's College of Arts and Commerce.As part of my Post Graduation Dissertation:A research on the topic: "A comparitive study of the effect of formal musical training on Academic Performance and Emotional Intelligence among Children. Show less

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Activities and Societies: Byculla Prison with Women Inmates, YWCA women in Belapur, special children in Muskaan school (NASEOH) We heal people through movement!

Youth Wing member

Associated with Vidhya Shenoy