Expressive Body
Through Wounding, Trauma, Healing, and Well-being
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This is your body, your greatest gift
Pregnant with wisdom you do not hear
Grief you thought was forgotten
And joy you have never known
MARION WOODMAN
training hours
Classroom training, experiential sessions, and assignments
Internships & Supervisions hours
Across clients in individual and group settings, adults, children and special needs
Personal work
Supported by a personal therapist during the course of the program
Trauma Work, Depth Psychology
Overview
As we create our healing tapestry as expressive arts professionals, it is important to recognise the need to deepen our understanding of the practice of this approach as well as the mystery of the therapeutic relationship. The Expressive Body has been designed to delve into the deeper cords of the foundation of the therapeutic relationship and explore poignant themes and topics in the current world of Expressive Arts therapy.
Created by Dr. Kate Donohue and Brinda Jacob-Janvrin, and titled Expressive Body: Through Wounding, Trauma, Healing, and Well-Being, the program invites participants to engage deeply with their personal process while grounding the same in EXA theories. Held in a Jungian expressive arts framework, trainees will begin by exploring their relationship to the archetype of the feminine. Starting with their own Motherline, trainees will learn about their personal, cultural, and archetypal cords to the sacred feminine. With this archetypal thread lacing the year, participants will become fluent in these two imagistic approaches as well as receive relevant supervision on their work.
With a background in the language of therapy, participants will penetrate the clinical relationship in order to understand the co-transference as it is created by the therapist and client(s). Within this framework, participants will investigate neuro-typical and neuro-atypical individuals and groups. As they probe these levels of relationship, they learn how to conceptualize their client and what their story offers in terms of trauma and resiliency. This conceptualization helps trainees develop a flexible plan of guiding them through the arts and psychologically so that their Tapestry demonstrates numerous healing cords. Being mindful of the backdrop of a global pandemic and the trauma that is currently experienced in the collective, participants will have opportunities to process and begin to heal their personal trauma to create the shift that is so needed to spark transformation both in the personal as well as the collective.
In addition, trainers will introduce current research and teach on how to evaluate and assess participants as a critical thinker. Trainees will learn how to write more professionally and be able to translate one theory into another so that their colleagues with different backgrounds will understand.
Participants will also learn how to build a private practice, grasping some of the practical skills as well as how to dive into core issues through the arts. Those working in an agency will learn how to contribute in a way that intensifies the group’s understanding of their client. This program will guide trainees in ways of being a team member and an independent thinker.
The program is conceived as both a fully online module as well as part online and part on-site module and has onboard a highly experienced and diverse team of national and international EXA trainers.
Program Format
Participants can choose to complete the Expressive Body program as a linear sequential course – All Modules – or as a self-paced Hop On Hop Off learning.
All Modules
All Modules + Internships + Supervision
- The Expressive Body program consists of 11 training modules, supervised internships, case presentations, assignments, personal work and professional and personal presentations
- Completing these course requirements awards certification as an Expressive Arts Therapist
- Applicants choosing the All Modules curriculum will use Google Classroom as the Learning Management System
- Participants follow the linear learning process of training-internships-supervisions
Objectives
- To deepen our understanding of our personal process through wounding, trauma, healing, and well-being
- To ground the personal process in EXA theory
- To conceptualise the client and their story in terms of trauma and resiliency
- To conceptualise, articulate and translate one theory into another
- To build on private practice
Pre-Requisites
- The FECAT program or an equivalent – All participants must have an understanding and an ability to work with the expressive arts in therapeutic settings
- The intensity of this program will be triggering for many, if not all participants, and will include an investigation of sometimes difficult emotional states originating in childhood. This program is designed to train therapists and health professionals. It is not meant to be a container for personal therapy. Due to the depth of the work, we require that all participants be simultaneously engaged in regular personal therapy with a therapist of their choice
- The applicant should be currently working with clients and in supervision for the same
- A minimum of 50 hours of client work is a pre-requisite
Course Requirements for Certification
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Attendance – Minimum 90% attendance is a must in order to be eligible for certification
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Client Hours & Supervisions – Trainees are expected to put into practice what they have learned during the course. Trainees have to complete a minimum of 200 client hours with at least 8 different clients. Client hours will be guided by an assigned supervisor
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Personal Therapy – All trainees are expected to continue with the personal therapy and record a minimum of 24 hours of personal work during the course of the program
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Personal & Professional Development Profile – All trainees are required to submit a professional and personal development profile of not less than 3000 words each, at the end of the course. Their professional profile must present their case studies across their individual and client groups and personal profile must trace their personal journey during the course. Presentations will be made to the course trainers, facilitators, and supervisor
Assessments
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Attendance, participation, and engagement in the various art forms account for 20% of the assessment
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Placement and supervision account for 20% of the assessment. Trainees have to complete a minimum of 200 client hours with at least 8 different clients
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Personal development profile accounts for 30% of the assessment
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Professional development profile accounts for 30% of the assessment
Hop On Hop Off
Choose Modules
- Participants have the option to choose select modules as per their interest
- Each module is assigned credits, which can be accumulated and consolidated against the EXB course should they choose to pursue it in the future
- Participants have the option to experience the modules purely for their personal interest and to further their inner work
- All participants will get a certificate of participation
- Academic certification and Course Credits are optional
Objectives & Pre-Requisites
- To offer a safe exploration of trauma work
- Individual modules are open to all adults interested in understanding and experiencing the therapeutic value of the arts, wounding and trauma work, healing and well-being
Syllabus & Modules
Body Remembers
July 2027
5 - 9 July
Mon - Fri | 10 am - 5 pm IST
5 sessions x 6 hours = 30 hours | 60 credits
In-person Training (Bangalore)
Brinda Jacob-Janvrin, Krupa Jhaveri, Pallavi Chander
Expressive Arts, Authentic Movement, Visual Art Therapy, Drama Therapy
Registrations will open in Jan 2027.
Tṛ́ṣṇā
Aug, Sep 2027
30, 31 Aug | 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 Sep
Mon, Tue | 6 pm - 8 pm IST
10 sessions x 2 hours = 20 hours | 40 credits
Virtual Training
Brinda Jacob-Janvrin
Authentic Movement, Natural Dreamwork
Registrations will open in March 2027
Natural Dreamwork
Nov 2027
1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30 Nov
Mon, Tue | 6 pm - 8 pm IST
10 sessions x 2 hours = 20 hours | 40 credits
Virtual Training
Rodger Kamenetz, Laura Smith-Riva, Dr. Keren Vishny, Kezia Vida, Brinda Jacob-Janvrin
Natural Dreamwork Practices
Registrations will open in May 2027.
Motherline
Jan 2028
17 - 21 Jan
Mon - Fri | 7 am - 9 am IST
5 sessions x 2 hours = 10 hours | 20 credits
Virtual Training
Kate Donohue
Expressive Arts, Authentic Movement, Collage Making
Registrations will open in Jul 2027.
Jungian Theory & Expressive Arts
Mar, Apr, May 2026
30, 31 Mar | 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 Apr | 4, 5 May
Mon, Tue | 7 am - 9 am IST
10 sessions x 2 hours = 22 hours | 40 credits
Virtual Training
Jacob Kamniker, Kate Donohie
Dreamwork, Active Imagination, Expressive Arts
Trauma & the Body
May 2026
18 - 22 May
Mon - Fri | 10 am - 5 pm IST
5 sessions x 6 hours = 30 hours | 60 credits
In-person Training (Bangalore)
Katia Verreault
Dance Movement Therapy, Trauma Sensitive Yoga
Heroine's Journey
Jun 2026
1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30 Jun
Mon, Tue | 6 pm - 8 pm IST
10 sessions x 2 hours = 20 hours | 40 credits
Virtual Training
Pallavi Chander
Drama Therapy
Healing in Action
Jul, Aug 2026
13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 Jul | 3, 4, 10, 11 Aug
Mon, Tue | 7 am - 9 am IST
10 sessions x 2 hours = 20 hours | 40 credits
Virtual Training
Madhu Shukla
Psychodrama
Decolonising Creativity
Aug, Sep 2026
24, 25, 31 Aug | 1, 7, 8, 21, 22, 28, 29 Sep
Mon, Tue | 6 pm - 8 pm IST
10 sessions x 2 hours = 20 hours | 40 credits
Virtual Training
Krupa Jhaveri
Visual Art Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapies
Tantra, the Feminine Principle & Experiential Learning
Nov, Dec 2026
16, 17, 23, 24, 30 Nov | 1, 7, 8, 14, 15 Dec
Mon, Tue | 6 pm - 8 pm IST
10 sessions x 2 hours = 20 hours | 40 credits
In-person Training
Sukhvinder Sircar, Brinda Jacob-Janvrin
Expressive Arts, Authentic Movement, Dance Movement Therapy, Talk Therapy
Goddesses & the Deep Feminine
Jan 2027
18 - 22 Jan
Mon - Fri | 10 am - 6 pm IST
5 sessions x 8 hours = 40 hours | 80 credits
Residency (ex Bangalore)
Brinda Jacob-Janvrin, Pallavi Chander, Krupa Jhaveri, Sukhvinder Sircar
Expressive Arts Therapies, Visual Art Therapy, Talk Therapy, Drama Therapy. Authentic Movement, Dance Movement Therapy
Dates
- The program starts in July 2025 and ends in Mar 2027 (20 months)
- The program follows a hybrid model – part in-person, part residential, part online
- In-person sessions will be conducted at the SMArT studio in Ulsoor, Bangalore, in Nov 2025 and May 2026
- The residential module will be conducted at a resort on the outskirts of Bangalore in Jan 2027
- Participants residing outside Bangalore will have to make their own travel and stay arrangements during the in-person training and travel to the venue during the residential training
Calendar
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Calendar starts in Jul 2025. Dates are tentative and subject to change
Structure
classroom training
Jungian Theory, Expressive Arts, Visual Art Therapy, Psychodrama, Drama Therapy, Body Work, Authentic Movement, Natural Dreamwork, Deep Feminine
ASSIGNMENTS
Reading material and assignments that cover the theories in each modality
personal therapy
Supported by a personal therapist during the course of the program
internships
200 hours of client work, across categories of adults and children in individual and group settings
supervisions
Class and group supervision sessions of client work, duly supervised by the assigned Expressive Arts supervisor
developmental profiles
An artistic representation of Personal and Professional journey presented at the end of the course
Fee
all modules
INR 250000 + 18% GST
July 2025 – Mar 2027
Apply
The application process requires you to fill and submit the form and attend a group discussion (conducted virtually, over ZOOM) facilitated by the program director Brinda Jacob-Janvrin.
apply for Expressive Body
Faculty
Kate Donohue
Motherline, Expressive Arts Therapy
Brinda Jacob-Janvrin
Body Remembers, Trsna, Goddesses & the Deep Feminine
Katia Verreault
Trauma & the Body
Pallavi Chander
Body Remembers, Heroine's Journey using Stories & Myths, Goddesses & the Deep Feminine
Krupa Jhaveri
Body Remembers, Decolonising Creativity, Goddesses & the Deep Feminine
Madhu Shukla
Healing in Action
LAURA SMITH-RIVA
Natural Dreamwork
SUKHVINDER SIRCAR
Tantra, the Feminine Principle & Experiential Learning, Goddesses & the Deep Feminine
JACOB KAMINKER
Jungian Theory
2025-27
2024-25
2022-23
