PANJIM: Caritas-Goa organised a workshop comprising 10 sessions on an important aspects of human life titled, ‘Art, as a Healing Tool’.
Fr Maverick Fernandes, director, Caritas Goa, explained the vision to initiate the workshop was to enhance the personal capacity of the trainers to use art as a healing tool, assist others, particularly children, explore themselves so that many accrue benefits.
Lioba Knepple, mentor and facilitator of the workshop, quoting Pablo Picasso, stated that“art speaks where words are unable to explain”.
She added that the workshop was designed to include non-artists with the aim of helping the people experience the positivestrength from a new way to be creative and learn how to help others do the same.
Some of the participants expressed their understanding of what they felt about the workshop, Art, as a healing tool. Viola Fernandes, an occupational therapist at a special school said, “We tend to impose restrictions and rules on ourselves. Sometimes all we needto do is take the first step, flow along with the paints, loosen our guards and it ends up in avery gratifying work of art.”
The next workshop will be held on April 27.
