FREE - The Bloom Wellbeing Webinar Series Autumn 2021
As a Wellbeing Fellow at Bloom, we discussed how best to address trauma within the context of supporting entrepreneurship and start-ups in Beirut one year after the blast. I curated a series of interactive online workshops with healing experts who are themselves based in Beirut and speaking from experience. Attendance was free and each speaker also offered short video practices that are available in the Bloom Digital Library. Wellbeing was addressed from three lenses: self, society and nature.
FREE - Online Tutorial on Yoga for Relieving Anxiety - Udemy
In response to the C19 pandemic, this free tutorial offers simple and effective yoga practices for relieving anxiety and optimizing immunity. To register and access the course, click here.
Refugee Groups - Yoga for Children in Refugee Camps - IMove Foundation
Dedicated to teaching Palestine and Syrian school kids at Sabra Shatila refugee camp, this program continued over several year, coming to close only due to the Pandemic. We offered weekly sessions in yoga for kids of various ages (ranging from ages 3 to age 13) and saw marked improvement in the children's self-awareness, connection to his/her senses and motor ability, capacity to focus, natural joy and inner strength.
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To find out more and support our work, click here.
Refugee Groups - Yoga for Social Workers Supporting War Refugees - Tools for Inner Peace
Dedicated to training social workers and refugees on how to use simple yoga practices to manage their lives better, this program offers trauma-informed education on yoga to those who need it most, and is active in Beirut, the Bekaa and in Tripoli.
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To find out more and support our work, click here.
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN for YOGA EDUCATION:
Triple the Impact - Help us spread yoga in Lebanon's disadvantaged communities
A scholarship project offering a year-long training yoga to young adults from under-supported communities in conflict zones and refugee camps in Lebanon who are eager and dedicated to giving back to their own communities.
Art & Social Therapy - ClownMeIN
Combining wellbeing and self-development practices with theatre, creative expression, art and social therapy, using fun ice-breaker games that help people connect with each other and with their own selves. 'CATCH - Creative Arts for Change' was active in communities across Lebanon between 2017 and 2019. 'CAPE - Creative Arts For Peace and Equality' is active since 2019 and continuing despite the immense challenges in Lebanon since the revolution in October 2019 and since the blast in August 2020, while also adapting to be accessible online during the pandemic lockdowns.
Previous community projects
2018- Co-facilitating yoga practices for the visually impaired, a 2-week summer camp in collaboration with Empowerment Through Integration.
2017 - Translating Mindfulness-Based Stress-Reduction 8-week training for social workers in psycho-social support and child education part of the IMove Foundation, based in the Netherlands.
2017 - Teaching classes for refugee Syrian teenagers living in Tripoli, weekly for a 3-month period, in collaboration with Lamsat Ward for Psycho-social Support & Development.
2017 - Offering yoga for women's health part of the BeFriend Me program for refugee families - Shams Network, Lebanon.
2015 - Translator for social-integration workshops bringing together teenagers amongst host communities and refugee communities part of Karama Human Rights Film Festival.
2017 - Translating Mindfulness-Based Stress-Reduction 8-week training for social workers in psycho-social support and child education part of the IMove Foundation, based in the Netherlands.
2017 - Teaching classes for refugee Syrian teenagers living in Tripoli, weekly for a 3-month period, in collaboration with Lamsat Ward for Psycho-social Support & Development.
2017 - Offering yoga for women's health part of the BeFriend Me program for refugee families - Shams Network, Lebanon.
2015 - Translator for social-integration workshops bringing together teenagers amongst host communities and refugee communities part of Karama Human Rights Film Festival.