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October 7, 2015April 5, 2016

MAGIS is now online!

Our creative spaces have gone digital! Get to know about our advocacy, services, and the people that make up our team.

We are so pleased to be able to connect with you through our website. So feel free to drop us a line, and stay tuned for more updates!

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We are always grateful for the opportunity to serve communities across Metro Manila, but we also love welcoming them to our Center. Sometimes, it takes a change of scenery to rejuvenate the mind, body, and spirit. Today, this group EXPLORED. From drawing to movement, we explored different ways to perceive and describe what we see, and to attune to each other by co-creating art and responding to each other's art. . Expressive Arts psychosocial programs are often a wonderful complement to counseling and psychotherapy, especially for centers with groups who are growing and healing together. It helps to deepen the impact in individual sessions through facilitated group activities. . #expressiveartsph #exaphilippines

“In a time of radical change, the arts help us remember the transformative power of creativity, our highest nature as human beings. With it, we can choose whether to invent the most destructive experiences or give birth to something life-giving. By reclaiming our creativity, we can release our illusions, recover our intuition, and re-story the new narrative we wish to create with our imagination. With creativity, we make sense, transform, and find order in chaos as we journey from healing into wholeness.” Sarah’s path has integrated multiple experiences into ecovillage and permaculture design - ranging from art education, cultural heritage advocacy, environmental education, interfaith peacebuilding, and humanitarian assistance. “The core has always been weaving creativity and healing with the earth,” she says of her varied experiences. From a personal journey of transformation to engaging collective healing in climate and conflict vulnerable areas, she has witnessed the deep capacity of creativity to transform our lives and our ecosystems. Learn more about Sarah’s work (among them: @newstory.greenreleaf) at Duyan: cradling diversity through the expressive arts this November 30 - December 1.🌿 (link in bio) #EXAPHDuyan #expressiveartsph #exaphilippines

Some of our best ideas can come from play. Some of the most exciting learning opportunities are in environments and situations of play. What if some of our greatest healing came from play, too? This November 30 - December 1, come join us with an open mind and redefine what you know about play through the expressive arts. 'Duyan: cradling diversity through the expressive arts', a 2-day workshop about the expressive arts, is still open for registration. - 📷: Do you recognize the game? This was last August's 'Beyond Fun', where Occupational Therapist Teacher Gelai took participants through a learning experience by letting them play 🤸🏽‍♂️

Why are the expressive arts helpful for mental health? Because you need the chance to celebrate all wins, big and small. Sometimes, the win is a completed masterpiece of a story. Sometimes, the win is the one sentence that starts one. . Practising the creative process makes us more naturally responsive to the aesthetics around us, attuned to beauty and honesty in expression. In that perspective, the one sentence is just as important as the finished book. Your aesthetic responsibility will go beyond ideals and expectations, and be the guardian of authenticity and vulnerability in your life. It will help you get through an ugly day and to where the real beauty is: the hope and strength in the lifelong journey of committing to your greatest piece of art. That's you. That's your life. - ⠀ Learn more about the expressive arts for mental health, social impact, and personal wellbeing at our upcoming workshop and forum, Duyan. 🌿 #EXAPHDuyan #expressivearts #expressiveartsph #expressiveartstherapy #worldmentalhealthmonth

Bilateral drawing can help regulate stress by encouraging cross-hemisphere activity. When both sides of the body are involved in a sensory-based process, such as drawing and moving, it reminds us of balance, spontaniety, natural rhythm, and the connection between the body and the mind. Try it out on a large board on the wall or two pencils and a notebook 🖍 . 📷: An expression station at the opening of the Asian Brain Institute, where the expressive arts is part of the Memory Wellness Program. #expressiveartsph #exaphilippines #drawing

"I see the expressive arts help release painful experiences, emotions, the effects of trauma, and start the healing process. "The Philippines has come a long way since 1990, when I first began psychosocial care and debriefing was the only intervention available to disaster survivors. "Today, integrating the use of the expressive arts in helping trauma victims is now being incorporated into the basic training we give to psychosocial care providers. We see the expressive arts in action when we see psychosocial care providers more empowered to give specialized mental health and psychosocial care through the expressive arts." Thelma Singson Barrera has been in disaster response and mental health & psychosocial support practice since the 90s, and she has seen the evolution of how the country responds to trauma. Today, after 40 years in service, she is inspired by how the expressive arts is changing the way Filipinos receive support, and give support. “We need to capacitate and develop more practitioners,” Barrera says, “with the goal of fostering post-traumatic growth and eventual healing; transforming trauma victims to become VICTORS.” Nurse Thelma will be at Duyan: cradling diversity through the expressive arts 🌿 #EXAPHDuyan #expressiveartsph #exaphilippines

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