Learn and
experience
a culturally sensitive, collaborative, and relational approach
to working worldwide, through Expressive Arts
Harambee Arts is an expressive arts organization and training program based in sub-Saharan Africa and Nepal. Harambee Arts is designed to serve children and women globally who have been traumatized by illness, poverty, violence, trafficking, autistic spectrum disorder and other crises.
Learn from these 3 amazing women and earn a Certificate of Completion
Gloria Simoneaux, MA, REAT, Founding Director of Harambee Arts, will share an overview and history, identify what she considers important in a leader, and how to nurture the staff so that they have local ownership.
Rina Patrik will share her story -changing tears into power - and how her life has been transformed through expressive arts. She believes we can do anything we set our minds and heart to. She will discuss the transformation in her life as a result of expressive arts and
how she now carries that out into her community.
Rina is is a Safe Home Coordinator of Shakti Samuha, in Nepal, the first organization in the world established and run by survivors of human trafficking. A survivor of trafficking herself, she took the Harambee Arts program as medicine, and is now an Expressive Arts Facilitator.
Lillian Obonyo will share about the 3 core programs within Harambee Arts Kenya: Langata Womens' Prison, where she facilitates psychosocial group of women living with HIV and serving their sentence, Mathare Special school for special needs children, and Kibera slums, where art therapy is offered to children. She will also describe the recent pandemic coloring book
project. Lillian is the Country Director of Harambee Arts program in Kenya, a Senior Counsellor, child therapist, and addictions professional. With 20 years experience in counseling psychotherapy, and a background in clinical nursing, Lillian currently works with the ministry of Health; Government of Kenya.
Both Rina and Lillian will lead participants in an experiential process.
Our sincere apologies to Harambee Arts for misspelling your name in our recent email!
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Kathleen Horne, MA, LMHC, REACE, REAT
Tamara Teeter Knapp, MA, MHC Intern, NCC, K-12 Art, REACE
Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, MA, REACE
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