Kolkata Sanved is very privileged to share that one of our founder members, Sreeja Debnath, has been selected for the SWAYAMSIDDHA Award by Ei Samay. She is one of the ten women to receive this award for overcoming struggles in their lives to achieve their dreams. The event took place on the 19th September G.D.Birla …
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Sreeja Debnath, Founder Member, Kolkata Sanved awarded Swayamsiddha Award
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How dance helps you battle — or come to terms with — suppressed, unprocessed emotion
How dance helps you battle — or come to terms with — suppressed, unprocessed emotion The body speaks. Just listen to it, we were told. “Anybody can move. You don’t have to be a dancer for it,” Sohini Chakraborty (46) said, as she led us in our very first movement class at a diploma programme …
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When Survivors found dance as a way to heal – Thrive Global
Kolkata Sanved’s Founder Director, Sohini Chakraborty shares about well being and DMT at Thrive Global. Below is the link to the article. https://thriveglobal.in/stories/when-survivors-found-dance-as-a-way-to-heal/
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Kolkata Sanved proud recipient of GG Super Star status given by Global Giving
Kolkata Sanved is a proud recipient of the GG SuperStar status given by Global Giving, a non-profit organization based in the United States that provides a global crowdfunding platform for grassroots charitable projects.
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Impact Report 2017
Kolkata Sanved has pioneered the use of dance movement therapy (DMT) in healing trauma and distress primarily among women, adolescent girls and children. And it has done so by creating a unique set of highly skilled professional DMT practitioners who were themselves, once, victims of trauma and exploitation. Kolkata Sanved has honed DMT into a …
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State Level Consultation Meet on DMT: An Alternate Healing Process
With a history of over 50 years as practiced majorly in a clinical set-up in Western countries, Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) has been an innovative concept in the realm of creative therapy in Asian countries. Kolkata Sanved’s Sampoornata model based on DMT has been formed and practiced over the last 12 years across South Asia. …
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Case Study: DMT at a shelter home
Kolkata Sanved introduced Dance Movement Therapy in Shahid Bandana Smriti Mahila Abash (SBSMA), a shelter home for girl children in Cooch Behar, in 2008. By 2015, a group of 14 girls who left the shelter home had opened a DMT unit in the community. Read the Full Report Here.
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Delhi Summit Report
The ‘DMT for Change’ Summit represents a new era in the endeavour of Kolkata Sanved’s groundbreaking work in championing the power of Dance Movement Therapy. The programmes of Kolkata Sanved are offered through a unique DMT curriculum which has changed lives locally, nationally and internationally. The time was right to bring together leaders in the …
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Western Regional Consultation on Strengthening Restoration and Rehabilitation of Children under the Juvenile Justice System
This document is a compilation of eight best practices for the Western Regional Consultation on Strengthening Restoration and Rehabilitation of Children under the Juvenile Justice System that is being held in Uttan, Maharashtra on 12-13 March 2016. These were the contributions received around the theme of restoration and rehabilitation. The aim is to carry on …
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Report with survivors of Trafficking and sexual violence
This was a six months pilot study which endeavoured to assess whether Dance and Movement (DMT) has any therapeutic impact on the traumatic symptoms of the survivors of trafficking/sexual violence. Following Purposive Sampling method a representative sample of 50 survivors of trafficking/sexual violence was selected from two different sites of India- 30 clients were selected …
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