5 Read-aloud Example: The Rabbit Listened
Channel: Eikas Foundation
Date: 19/06/2022

Eikas Foundation brings to you a series of workshops which are designed to help teachers, NGOs, and community workers address the social-emotional wellbeing of children from low-income settings in the school and community. The second workshop titled "Social Emotional Learning through Picture Books" was held in March. 2022 and was facilitated by:

1) Lakshmi Karunakaran, program lead for the Parag Initiative of the Tata Trusts. Over the past decade, she has worked with children experiencing social exclusion in government schools, special needs and remedial schools, and in disadvantaged communities. She previously initiated the Buguri Children’s Program, an after-school library and art centre for over 1000 children of waste pickers. She was also an artist in residence at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, a fellow at the Arts for Good Fellowship 2019 at the Singapore International Foundation.

2) Pallavi Chander, Creative Arts Therapist, Faculty, Drama & Play Therapy, SMART, Bengaluru. Pallavi has 15 years of experience as an artist, facilitator, and therapist and has worked in schools, special needs centres, arts collectives, charities and hospital settings in India and the UK. She received the Charles Wallace India Scholarship Award (2015) and is trained in Drama and Movement Therapy at RCSSD, London (2017). She is a certified Arts-Based therapist trained with WCCLF, Pune (2012).

This event was organized under the support of a Think Tank Grant from the Mind & Life Institute, USA

For more information: contact@eikasfoundation.org