Self Exploration Sessions for Teens: “Exploring the Treasure Chest”
Most individuals find the adolescent years very challenging, mainly because this is the time for the process of transformation to becoming an adult. These include both physical and psychological changes. Often it involves efforts of trying to fit in with the group and giving in to peer pressure. This is the time where most teens find life confusing and many try to find themselves in various experimentations to help them ‘find’ themselves and where they ‘fit’ in the world.
This workshop aims at helping the individual to explore their true self through the process of creative arts.
Objectives1.To create self awareness and to be in touch with their authentic
self
2.To help set long term goals and help explore and formulate ways
to help achieve them
3.To be in touch with, and to be able to draw strength from the
hero within
4.To explore and work on resolving issues which may be blocking
the individual’s path of reaching their fullest potential
5.To help explore the creative potential of each individual
6.To do all the above while having some FUN!
Facilitator: Vanitha Chandrasegaram
MA Dramatherapy (Hertfordshire, UK)
MSc Psychology (Pittsburg State University, USA)
What will it involve?
These sessions will combine various elements of creative arts including
• Movements
• Drama games
• Drama /Acting
• Story making
• Art work
Expected outcome:
• Express more insight and psychological maturity
• Being able to draw on inner strength
• Being more aware and being able to reflect on their
own behavior
• Being in touch with the creative self
• Being open to trying new positive things
• Knowing their inner selves better
• Having a clearer sense of direction and making better
decisions
• Have more self confidence and self esteem
Target group: 13 years old to 17 years old (high school students)
and 17 to 25 years (College/University students)
Group size: 5-8 participants
Medium of instruction: English
Intake : May 2010
Duration : 90 minutes, 8 sessions
Fee : RM500
For morre information and application, please refer to www.jm-enrich.my or contact Yvonne Lee at 017-668 3702.
Support Group for Bereavement: Moving On
When we lose someone special in our lives, either through death, divorce or separation, sometimes we don’t know how to get on with our lives. Many people get stuck in the grief. And just don’t know how to get past the grief. And if it lasts for over a period of time, one may fall into depression and other mental health issues.
Some people may feel that expressing grief makes them look weak and they tend to hide and repress their feeling. As they do this, they may find that the grief may manifest in anger, frustration and stagnation in various parts of their lives.
Some may feel unable to move on and may be stuck in feeling of hopelessness, loss and depression. As they may have lost a significant person in their lives, whom they had depended on emotionally and sometimes also financially. This may cause them to feel emotionally, and mentally drained and debilitated.
It is important to express and feel the grief. And it is important to move pass the grief. The sadness of loss doesn’t go away if it is repressed or held on to for too long. Only when the feeling of grief is felt and expressed most people are able to move on with their lives.
Objectives
• To give a space for individuals in the group to share their
experience of the grief of the loss of a loved one
• To have a group of people who will be able to support each other
during the difficult period of bereavement.
• To help group members to work through this period of
bereavement and help the process of moving on with their lives
Expected Outcome
• To come to accept the loss of a loved one
• To be able to readjust and move on with life
• To be able to find joy in life even with the absence of the loved
one
Facilitator: Vanitha Chandrasegaram
MA Dramatherapy (Hertfordshire, UK)
MSc Psychology (Pittsburg State University, USA)
Method:
Various creative methods will be used as tools to facilitate this group session. Sometimes words alone is not enough to express the depths of one’s feelings. The creative arts therapy tools engages the subconscious believes and thoughts which may be the cause of being stuck in various ways because of grief.
Target group: People who have lost someone special in lives, either through death, divorce or separation.
Group size: 5-10 participants
Medium of instruction: English
Intake : May 2010
Duration : 90 minutes, 10 sessions
Fee : RM600
For more information and application, please refer to www.jm-enrich.my or contact Yvonne Lee at 017-668 3702.
