Decolonizing Creativity
Discovering expression beyond fear
aug – sep 2026
Sessions
online training hours
credits
All Art Requires Courage ~ Anne Tucker
Overview
When you express yourself, do you allow your truest self to emerge? Many of us are educated to create with fear, conditioned to limit ourselves within arbitrary rules for artmaking. This course is an opportunity to explore the layers beneath perfectionism, conventional materials, and to dive into the richness of mess, chaos and authentic self-expression.
Profound inner and outer shifts become possible when we move from conditioned ways into more authentic and ancestral and imaginative approaches to expression, from a copy/paste limitation into the infinite. Brainstorming and collectively exploring together, the aim is to ground in a more liberated mind, body, heart and spirit. We will explore visual arts, movement, writing, and meditation to support this journey.
Decolonizing Creativity is open to all who are curious to expand and deepen their artmaking.
This course will include mask-making, mandalas, digital art and the use of natural and recycled materials. Each participant is requested to bring existing personal art supplies and will be guided to include other easy-to-find resources too.
Syllabus
01.
Identity: Power, Privilege and Hierarchy
02.
Unmasking the Authentic Self
03.
Intention: Discovering Truth, Redefining Art
04.
Materials, Mess & Meaning
05.
Imagination: co-creating new possibilities
06.
Imagination: co-creating new possibilities
07.
Review & Rituals
Program begins Aug 2026
Structure
Online training
20 hours of online training, twice a week
assignments
In-class and at-home reflective assignments
reading material
List shared with the participants
aesthetic responses
Art journalling, authentic movement / movement / gestures to express felt sense
Fee
Decolonizing Creativity
Aug, Sep 2026
24, 25, 31 Aug | 1, 7, 8, 21 Sep 2026
Mon, Tue | 5 pm - 8 pm IST (except last session, 6 pm - 8 pm)
6 sessions x 3 hours + 1 session x 2 hours = 20 hours | 40 credits
Virtual Training
Krupa Jhaveri
Visual Art Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapies
INR 25000 + 18% GST
We would like to extend our support to participants from caste and gender minorities (SC/ST/OBC/DBA/LGBTQIA+). Once we reach a sustainable number of participants and break even, we would be happy to extend meaningful support as scholarships/waivers/
Faculty
Krupa Jhaveri, PhD, is an expressive arts therapist, art director, artist, teacher, researcher (a/r/tographer) and founder of Sankalpa: Art Journeys based in Tamil Nadu, south India, since 2009. Born in the US and of Gujarati origin, she is a living bridge between cultures through art. Krupa specialises as a trauma-informed expressive arts therapist, in the combination of art & yoga/mindfulness, in reclaiming the therapeutic value of indigenous art forms and decolonizing the links between ritual and resilience. Krupa is an Editorial Review Board member for the Canadian Journal of Art Therapy, Ambassador to India for Art Therapy Without Borders, is a TEDx Women speaker, published a chapter within Craft in Art Therapy (Routledge 2020) and completed her arts-based doctoral research on faith and spirituality in EXAT through the European Graduate School in Switzerland (2022). She is currently teaching four programs internationally to support the culturally-informed expansion of this field.