Joshi Creatives

As a part of our vision for a compassionate revolution in mental health care and treatment, we also organize and help fund various creative projects under our “Joshi Creatives” programme. Joshi Creatives are offered in partnership with local mental health groups and professionals who have connected with the Joshi Project.

Here’s sample of what we offer:

ART PSYCHOTHERAPY: We have already funded, with the help of St Ninians High school in Giffnock through YPI Scotland, two projects with Glasgow-based art psychotherapist Patricia Watts. The first one was organised in coordination with members of Mental Health Network of Greater Glasgow. The second was an art psychotherapy project for a group of children and mothers from the Glasgow Roma Community.

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Art psychotherapy uses a range of mixed media art materials and the natural world as inspiration. The creative process is a journey and is key to the therapy experience, promoting playfulness, exploration, and connection. The art psychotherapist works in an empathic and caring manner that enables individuals to work at their own pace, encouraging self-expression, self-awareness and healing.

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EMBODIED MOVEMENT: Embodied Movement has been called “positive psychology”. It uses the body as a tool for mental-health healing and trauma therapy through self-awareness, mindfulness, connection, self-regulation, empowerment and a pathway to creating balance, self-acceptance and inner peace. 

Embodied movement is a recognised therapy that can effectively address a range of mental health issues, including trauma, eating disorders, and behavioural problems.

DRAMA THERAPY: This is a form of psychotherapy that uses drama and theatre techniques to help individuals explore and resolve personal and social mental health issues. Therapists are skilled at using methods, such as play, storytelling, character, movement, art, music and voice. It is highly versatile and allows the therapeutic journey to be explored through many different avenues and in a less conventional way.

It has been shown to be an extremely effective therapeutic strategy for resolving a range of mental health-related emotional and behavioural problems

CREATIVE WRITING THERAPY: These sessions are taken by Mark S. Smith, the co-founder of The Joshi Project, who is also a seasoned professional writer, author, journalist and the former long-time Deputy Business Editor of The Herald newspaper.

This is a workshop that teaches participants how to create stories from the voice that lives inside each of us. It is also a guide on how to use creative writing as a way through mental health difficulties. Its aim is to provide a sense of wellbeing and achievement to participants, and to guide us through some of the most challenging times in our lives.