No better time than now to prioritise and normalise mental health awareness and working towards it at workplaces. In the Post-Covid world, It’ll be extremely necessary for the organisations to take employees’ mental health into consideration and make it a norm in the work culture for the long run. Taal Inc. sessions have immense potentialContinue reading “Expressive Arts for Mental Health by Akshata Parekh”
Category Archives: Art Therapy
Art Based Therapy at Taal
Over the last two years, our think-tank, the ‘Taal Inc. Research & Training’ division (headed by Dr. Anand Godse) has developed ‘Drum Talks’ our customized Corporate Training Sessions module that follows the ‘Awareness – Assessment – Action – Application’ module also developed in-house. With this one/two-day, or ongoing training module, (that uses not only drumming but variousContinue reading “Art Based Therapy at Taal”
Expert Therapists, Counsellors, Expressive Arts Facilitators and Psychologists
The Therapy Room welcomes you to experience an inward journey in this safe space filled with music, color, and warmth. Through a steady process of counseling, art-making, movement, and more, we encourage clients to reconnect with fearless joy while dealing with anxieties. Taal Inc. is committed to spreading awareness of the use of arts inContinue reading “Expert Therapists, Counsellors, Expressive Arts Facilitators and Psychologists”
Creative Art Therapy-Taal Inc.
Along with being a Drum Circle and Art Talks Facilitator with Taal Inc. and practicing counseling, Akshata has completed courses in Dance Movement therapy, Visual Art therapy and NLP in India. She is a certified ‘Rhythm-to-recovery’ facilitator (a program using rhythm in therapeutic settings) and is currently pursuing her master’s in Clinical Mental Health psychologyContinue reading “Creative Art Therapy-Taal Inc.”
Creative Art Therapy and The Magic Of Creation
Hope you all are at home, safe and keeping well physically and mentally during these times when a pandemic is hovering over us. Talking of pandemic, How are you guys keeping yourself occupied in these times? Can you imagine being in this situation without Art and Creativity? If your answer is a resounding ‘No’, youContinue reading “Creative Art Therapy and The Magic Of Creation”
Expressive Arts with Akshata
Akshata Parekh is an Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner who uses dance/movement, visual art, and rhythm as a therapeutic tool. She has successfully completed The Taal Inc. Facilitator Training Program and an intensive six-day training with Arthur Hull (Village Music Circles, USA). She is presently pursuing her master’s in Clinical Mental Health psychology specialisation in ExpressiveContinue reading “Expressive Arts with Akshata”
What is Art Therapy?
Art Therapy is the use of various art-based modalities (drawing, painting, sketching, doodling, drumming, singing, dancing, creative writing, theatre activities and so on) with a particular group (over a period of time) to positively influence certain pre-decided behavioural (not necessarily artistic) objectives. This could be used in various settings such as hospitals, with special needsContinue reading “What is Art Therapy?”
Art therapy session at Taal
So, while a one-off drumming event can be therapeutic; wherein, there is an emergent experience of an epiphany (catharsis or heightened awareness), an Art Therapy session (that Taal Inc. calls Art Talks) is designed with a very specific purpose or objective that would be arrived upon based on a process and measured using psychometrics. So,Continue reading “Art therapy session at Taal”
Art Based Therapy-Taal
Art Based therapy is the use or art based modalities such as Fine Art, Creative Movement, Music, Rhythm, Creative Writing and Drama based activities to work on an individual or group level, over a period of time to address a pre decided behavioural or therapy goal / objective. The use of the specific modality mayContinue reading “Art Based Therapy-Taal”
What is Art Therapy?
Art Therapy is the use of various art-based modalities (drawing, painting, sketching, doodling, drumming, singing, dancing, creative writing, theatre activities and so on) with a particular group (over a period of time) to positively influence certain pre-decided behavioural (not necessarily artistic) objectives. This could be used in various settings such as hospitals, with special needsContinue reading “What is Art Therapy?”
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