A new art and creative healing center opens in Mumbai

Mishti Varma and serial entrepreneur Faisal Poonawala opens CLAP in Mumbai to foster learning, healing, self-expression, through art and creativity.

Creativity has the power to foster learning, healing, self-expression, growth and development of personal effectiveness across all age groups. CLAP or Creative Learning Arts initiative by renowned artist Mishti Varma and serial entrepreneur Faisal Poonawala's just bring this philosophy to work. Through their initiative, the pioneers believe that art and other revival techniques like yoga, theatre, etc. can help children, as well as adults, develop skills that stress on cognitive, psychological well-being as well as improve their ability to express themselves better.

What is CLAP?

CLAP is an empowerment lab, activity center and culture hub that uses yoga, theater, board games, dance, creative arts, story- telling and counseling to ensure the overall development of a child with a focus on identifying each child's unique potential and self- expression. CLAP is associated with facilitators and experts from multiple creative fields across India (such as art, counseling, psychology and likes) that enable women to deal with key issues such as stress management, work-life balance, strengthening self-identity, mental and physical fitness through counseling, expressive art therapy, and healing yoga.

CLAP's offerings for parents on parenting reflections, counseling, and overall wellbeing focus not only on child-parent relationships but also parent-parent relationships and imbibing skills that help you better yourself as a mother, sister or greater still, the creative human being that you are. Following the philosophy of right wired thinking and telling the tales of the heart through creative learning processes, C.L.A.P has also tied up with Instituto Hispania to acquaint children with global cultures and language.

What to look for?

CLAP uses many old Indian arts and revival techniques and skill development programs that stress on Cognitive Therapy, Psychological Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapist via methods such as Healing Story Telling, Creative Movement Therapy, Arts and Crafts, Sufi Dancing, Pottery Classes, Dance Yoga, Healing Yoga and the likes to provide a platform for overall development for children, women and parents alike. The programs that are offered at the center are as follows:

• Healing Yoga: This helps improve mental health status, concentration, memory, self-esteem among others.
• Happitude: Developing Emotional Quotient using Board games that include the happiness series, parenting reflections and team work.
• Catch them young: Enhancing soft skills via theater for team building, confidence building, better focus and communication, phonetics and theater for fun.
• Wings-creative arts and self-expression: Learning through wings Healing Story Telling, Creative Movement Therapy, Arts and Crafts, Sufi Dancing, Pottery Classes, and Dance Yoga
• Mental health counseling: Through cognitive therapy, psychological counseling and expressive arts therapy.

For more details, visit www.clap.center

Source: Press release

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