Safar – Empowering Facilitators

This program aims at empowering members of the communities to become facilitators who can create safe spaces to work towards well-being using arts-based practices. The journey is as much one of personal transformation as it is one of gaining skills.

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The program aims to build self-esteem, empathy, confidence, assertiveness and resilience as a large part of the training is to provide a therapeutic space and focus on healing trauma as we believe that personal healing and transformation is a necessary and important step in becoming facilitators, especially in the context of marginalisation. This is a one-year journey that includes experiential and theoretical learning to build an understanding of mental health and well-being, equipping trainees in planning and facilitating arts-based practices, working on the self and one’s own self-care, and practising facilitation in Jumbish as co-facilitators to gain experience under supervision. At the end of this one-year journey trainees will be able to work as facilitators for the well-being of the community, identify needs, objectives and strategies to work towards well-being.