EXA Therapy Nepal: Building Peace
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Expressive Arts Institute Nepal: Expressive Arts for Inner Peace and Community Health
This campaign is raising funds to facilitate the development of the non-profit, Expressive Arts Institute Nepal.
Vision: To empower Nepali national Sadhana Thappa in her work to establish Expressive Arts Institute Nepal as a professional training center and service provider of Expressive Arts Therapy and Community Arts Practice.
Mission: To provide professional traning and supervised practicum work In Expressive Arts Therapy and Community Art Practice for Nepali social workers, community care providers, school professionals and mental health care workers through Expressive Arts Institute Nepal.
Our Partnership
Sadhana Thapa MSW,
Masters student in Expressive Arts
President of Expressive Arts Nepal
Mary Putera
LMHC, MDiv, CAGS and PhD candidate
Sadhana Thapa and Mary Putera met in Nepal through Expressive Arts Therapy efforts with a variety of marginalized peoples in Nepal. Sadhana was serving as an interpretor for an Expressive Arts Therapy training program for which Mary Putera was a team member. During that time, Sadhana shared her dream to become an Expressive Arts therapist and begin an Expressive Arts Therapy training center in Nepal. In 2015 Mary Putera, as an Expressive Arts Therapist and Teacher/Trainor agreed to partner with Sadhana to bring her dream into reality.
About Expressive Arts Institute Nepal
Vision
Expressive Arts Nepal envisions a Nepal that thrives through peaceful and positive people, working together for healthy, holistic, peaceful development of our communities and our Nation.
Introduction
Expressive Arts Institute Nepal is a non – profit and non – government organization established in 2015, with the mission to provide Nepali people with education, professional training, and practicum opportunities in Expressive Arts Therapy and therapeutic practice. EXA Nepal’s main areas of concern are the care of people and communities suffering from trauma, violence, grief, loss, illness, and unfathomable suffering in such circumstances as war, genocide, human trafficking, and natural disasters. In addition, Expressive Arts Institute Nepal will also target, leaders and organizations that work to serve public good such as school teachers and administrators, social workers, medical and health professionals and community care organizations.
Expressive Arts Project in Nepal
Background on project
Nepal is a developing country, which recently endured a decade long civil war and is continuously experiencing political instability since the end of the civil war. In such a situation so many individual and social disorders exist such as rampant human trafficking, an active dowry system, strong drug economy, increased child labor, chronic physical and psychological illness, and domestic violence.
Expressive Arts Therapy is an art based approach to nurturing relationships, providing counseling, therapy and community building opportunities. Expressive Art and Community Art practice are experiences created to invite participants into the process of “making” and “creating” using a variety of modalities and tools including, music, sound, dance, movement, visual arts, and storytelling to facilitate people’s resiliency in times of trauma and distress and an increase in holistic healing and health for individuals and communities.
In Nepal there are very few organizations practicing expressive arts and Nepal does not have any local academic and professional training for therapists or educational institutes. Thus Expressive Arts Nepal is committed to establishing a center for the training and education of Expressive Arts Therapy and Community Art Practice as a form of holistic healing and therapeutic intervention in the work of psychologists, social workers and care providers in Nepal.
Project Objective:
To establish Exprressive Arts Institute Nepal as a Nepali training and service provider of Expressive arts Therapy, therapeutic practice and Community Art.
To facilitate the Masters Educaiton of the President of Expressive Arts Institute Nepal, Sadhana Thapa that she may become the praimary on site EXA Trainor and teacher with the apropriate education to supervise students in practicum work.
To bring the Expressive Arts Institute Nepal in to the network of international Expressive Arts Therapy and COmmunity Art practice training institutes for the sake of fostering Global initiatives of peace for all people and all the earth.
Initiatives for phase 3 of this project!
Goals:
1 - To cover Sadhana Thappa's expenses as a 3rd year student in the Masters In Expressive Arts Therapy program at the European Graduate School through June of 2019. ($12,000)
2 - To fund bi-monthly Expressive Arts Practice studios with 1st year Nepali student trainees.($100 p/month)
3 - To fund a 21 day Training Insititute teaching: Foundations, Ethics and Praxis of Expressive Arts Therapy, EXA Therapy Level II:Safety, Self-Care, sustained exploration; and Community Art for Social Transformation and Peace-building. Each of these 3 courses will include supervised praticum experientials.($5,000 total)
4-$1,000 to support on going operating expenses including: rental of office space, internet service, and provision of Bi-monthly Expressive Arts practice for Asha Nepal, an organization caring for human trafficking survivors.
Consider giving today!
Perhaps a one time gift of $250
Or Monthly Support of $50 for 12 months!
Please know we are so grateful for every dollar given!
This campaign is raising funds to facilitate the development of the non-profit, Expressive Arts Institute Nepal.
Vision: To empower Nepali national Sadhana Thappa in her work to establish Expressive Arts Institute Nepal as a professional training center and service provider of Expressive Arts Therapy and Community Arts Practice.
Mission: To provide professional traning and supervised practicum work In Expressive Arts Therapy and Community Art Practice for Nepali social workers, community care providers, school professionals and mental health care workers through Expressive Arts Institute Nepal.
Our Partnership
Sadhana Thapa MSW,
Masters student in Expressive Arts
President of Expressive Arts Nepal
Mary Putera
LMHC, MDiv, CAGS and PhD candidate
Sadhana Thapa and Mary Putera met in Nepal through Expressive Arts Therapy efforts with a variety of marginalized peoples in Nepal. Sadhana was serving as an interpretor for an Expressive Arts Therapy training program for which Mary Putera was a team member. During that time, Sadhana shared her dream to become an Expressive Arts therapist and begin an Expressive Arts Therapy training center in Nepal. In 2015 Mary Putera, as an Expressive Arts Therapist and Teacher/Trainor agreed to partner with Sadhana to bring her dream into reality.
About Expressive Arts Institute Nepal
Vision
Expressive Arts Nepal envisions a Nepal that thrives through peaceful and positive people, working together for healthy, holistic, peaceful development of our communities and our Nation.
Introduction
Expressive Arts Institute Nepal is a non – profit and non – government organization established in 2015, with the mission to provide Nepali people with education, professional training, and practicum opportunities in Expressive Arts Therapy and therapeutic practice. EXA Nepal’s main areas of concern are the care of people and communities suffering from trauma, violence, grief, loss, illness, and unfathomable suffering in such circumstances as war, genocide, human trafficking, and natural disasters. In addition, Expressive Arts Institute Nepal will also target, leaders and organizations that work to serve public good such as school teachers and administrators, social workers, medical and health professionals and community care organizations.
Expressive Arts Project in Nepal
Background on project
Nepal is a developing country, which recently endured a decade long civil war and is continuously experiencing political instability since the end of the civil war. In such a situation so many individual and social disorders exist such as rampant human trafficking, an active dowry system, strong drug economy, increased child labor, chronic physical and psychological illness, and domestic violence.
Expressive Arts Therapy is an art based approach to nurturing relationships, providing counseling, therapy and community building opportunities. Expressive Art and Community Art practice are experiences created to invite participants into the process of “making” and “creating” using a variety of modalities and tools including, music, sound, dance, movement, visual arts, and storytelling to facilitate people’s resiliency in times of trauma and distress and an increase in holistic healing and health for individuals and communities.
In Nepal there are very few organizations practicing expressive arts and Nepal does not have any local academic and professional training for therapists or educational institutes. Thus Expressive Arts Nepal is committed to establishing a center for the training and education of Expressive Arts Therapy and Community Art Practice as a form of holistic healing and therapeutic intervention in the work of psychologists, social workers and care providers in Nepal.
Project Objective:
To establish Exprressive Arts Institute Nepal as a Nepali training and service provider of Expressive arts Therapy, therapeutic practice and Community Art.
To facilitate the Masters Educaiton of the President of Expressive Arts Institute Nepal, Sadhana Thapa that she may become the praimary on site EXA Trainor and teacher with the apropriate education to supervise students in practicum work.
To bring the Expressive Arts Institute Nepal in to the network of international Expressive Arts Therapy and COmmunity Art practice training institutes for the sake of fostering Global initiatives of peace for all people and all the earth.
Initiatives for phase 3 of this project!
Goals:
1 - To cover Sadhana Thappa's expenses as a 3rd year student in the Masters In Expressive Arts Therapy program at the European Graduate School through June of 2019. ($12,000)
2 - To fund bi-monthly Expressive Arts Practice studios with 1st year Nepali student trainees.($100 p/month)
3 - To fund a 21 day Training Insititute teaching: Foundations, Ethics and Praxis of Expressive Arts Therapy, EXA Therapy Level II:Safety, Self-Care, sustained exploration; and Community Art for Social Transformation and Peace-building. Each of these 3 courses will include supervised praticum experientials.($5,000 total)
4-$1,000 to support on going operating expenses including: rental of office space, internet service, and provision of Bi-monthly Expressive Arts practice for Asha Nepal, an organization caring for human trafficking survivors.
Consider giving today!
Perhaps a one time gift of $250
Or Monthly Support of $50 for 12 months!
Please know we are so grateful for every dollar given!
Organizer
Mary Putera
Organizer
Middletown, RI
