The conversation explores the Transpersonal Space while working with Trauma and Mental Health.

The panel, Brinda Jacob-Janvrin (Expressive Art Therapy and Authentic Movement), Laura Smith-Riva (Natural Dreamwork), Katia Verreault (Trauma and the Body) and Sukhvinder Sircar (Deep Feminine) explore the role of soul work via natural dreamwork, authentic movement and the deep feminine while working with trauma both in the individual and the collective.

The speakers also share stories from their personal and professional processes around healing and transformation, as well as tips and practices on negotiating the current uncertainty in the environment.

Katia Verreault is a Dance Movement Therapist with extensive work experience in multicultural settings and more specifically with populations affected with trauma. In her community-based and clinical work, she integrates trauma-informed practices while supporting individuals and groups who wish to integrate the body into their therapeutic journeys. Her work has taken her to Palestine, Uganda, Kenya, Greece, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and The Netherlands where she offers individual and group therapy sessions to develop Dance Movement Therapy education programs and workshops on trauma and restoration through the body.

Laura Smith-Riva is a certified Natural Dreamwork Practitioner. She combines a love of the natural world and creativity with a deep commitment to the wisdom of dreams to offer one-on-one dream consultations to individuals in the US and abroad. A third-year student of the Green Mountain Druid School, she explores the individual’s connection to the natural world through an experiential exploration of dreams and is developing dream-inspired nature-based practices designed to support, enliven and deepen the dream wisdom.

Laura hails from the mysterious Green Mountains of Vermont. Her poetry, prose, and artwork have been published in numerous magazines, journals, and E-zines.

Brinda Jacob-Janvrin is a contemporary dancer/choreographer with more than 25 years of performing experience. She is also a qualified counsellor and has been working extensively with movement therapy over the last 15 years.

Her current movement disciplines include contemporary dance (1994 onwards), Authentic Movement (2011 onwards) and Ashtanga yoga (2013 onwards). Her previous movement training includes Kalaripayattu, Bharatanatayam, Kathak, Hatha, and Vinaysa Flow yoga, Physical theatre, Contact Improvisation, etc.

From 2012 onwards Brinda has been training in and exploring Expressive Arts Therapy as a powerful modality with which to work with clients. While movement and the body is her primary modality, she also engages with techniques from visual art therapy, drama therapy, sand play, and psychodrama.

Today Brinda trains, works with individual and group clients, facilitates, performs and choreographs.

Sukhvinder Sircar is an accredited group process facilitator and life coach and her deep understanding of human behaviour and aspirations supports her facilitation work. Her ‘Joyous Woman!’ workshops are hugely popular and transformational. Through these workshops, she facilitates men and women to come back to their true, joyous, and divine selves in a powerful way.

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