Sankalpa: Art Journeys

Sankalpa: Art Journeys Expressive art therapy programs & handmade art kits, all building bridges through art, based in the A

September 2011 - present: With Auroville in south India as the base for Sankalpa, your support is needed to build a healing arts center, a safe space stocked with art supplies for ongoing sessions and workshops. November 2010 - May 2011: In six months, art therapy was offered with several groups in and around Auroville, an international township dedicated to the realization of human unity, near Po

ndicherry in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Bi-weekly groups were held with village children in an after-school program at Thamarai community center in Edyanachavadi village, focusing on color exploration and creative literacy. Weekend sessions were also offered with village adolescents visiting the Edyanchavadi Healing Center, focusing on body awareness and identity. Groups were held at the Life Education Center in Kottakarai, with young village women and focusing on self-esteem and mastery. And ongoing support and involvement was provided to a new effort of Child Protection Services of Auroville, including individual art therapy sessions in abuse cases. March 2009 - September 2009: As a foundation of research for this vision, for seven months in 2009, 80+ locations in India and Nepal were independently surveyed for potential applications of art therapy in schools, orphanages, NGOs, cities, communities, and villages.

Recentering: Create & Connect Offline with ArtTuesday, June 23rd from 7–9pm at !Facilitated by Arts Therapist Dr. Krupa ...
12/06/2026

Recentering: Create & Connect Offline with Art
Tuesday, June 23rd from 7–9pm at !
Facilitated by Arts Therapist Dr. Krupa Jhaveri
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Leave your devices and dive into a guided art experience with meditation, playful warm-ups, individual and shared mandala drawings, writing and sharing.
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An invitation to return to the handmade and savor an offline creative journey together, re-centering within yourself and community.
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Facilitated by Dr. Krupa Jhaveri, Arts Therapist, a/r/tographer (artist/ researcher/ teacher) and founder of Sankalpa: Art Journeys with 16+ years of international experience.
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The workshop includes a keepsake handmade art kit supporting a network of 100+ Indian artisans.
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Limited spots, register by Rs1000 transfer to UPI QR code on flyer or link in bio.
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Beijing, China in October 2025: A multi-layered mandala art therapy workshop presented as part of the International Conf...
03/06/2026

Beijing, China in October 2025: A multi-layered mandala art therapy workshop presented as part of the International Conference on Art Therapy. Bringing fresh flowers and sensory gifts from India into the room, building bridges between our ancient parallel cultures and co-creating beauty together. is we are coming full circle.
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Reflecting on Beijing, October 2025 and an invitation to the International Conference on Art Therapy in China. Reconnect...
27/05/2026

Reflecting on Beijing, October 2025 and an invitation to the International Conference on Art Therapy in China. Reconnecting with colleagues (some including my host who I’ve known since 2012!), and here sharing some parallels to art therapy in India on a pre-conference panel at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The cameras were overwhelming but it’s a gift to look back at all this documentation now! is I am building bridges.
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For our 12th annual Art Break Day in September 2025, a group of schoolchildren finishing exams gathered on their beautif...
25/02/2026

For our 12th annual Art Break Day in September 2025, a group of schoolchildren finishing exams gathered on their beautiful campus in Kholegaun, outside of Kathmandu in Nepal. We met each other through dance and play, then went outside to collect natural and manmade art materials littered on the school grounds. A mandala was co-created, then reimagined more intentionally with awareness of pollution. This unique community art session was offered to a very special group and place, weaving together art, movement and ecology for the 12th year of joining a global art revolution (happening simultaneously at many sites around the world)! Thank you to Lauren & Lisa of for starting this movement, .101 for bringing me to this special place during my artist residency, Mahendrabhai, Lalitbhai, Naami and especially each student for participating on that day! is we are choosing to co-create beauty.
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For our 12th annual Art Break Day in September 2025, a group of schoolchildren finishing exams gathered on their beautif...
25/02/2026

For our 12th annual Art Break Day in September 2025, a group of schoolchildren finishing exams gathered on their beautiful campus in Kholegaun, outside of Kathmandu in Nepal. We met each other through dance and play, then went outside to collect natural and manmade art materials littered on the school grounds. A mandala was co-created, then reimagined more intentionally with awareness of pollution. This unique community art session was offered to a very special group and place, weaving together art, movement and ecology for the 12th year of joining a global art revolution (happening simultaneously at many sites around the world)! Thank you to Lauren & Lisa of for starting this movement, .101 for bringing me to this special place during my artist residency, Mahendrabhai, Lalitbhai, Naami and especially each student for participating on that day! is we are choosing to co-create beauty.
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{ecology mandala community art children earth collaboration cocreation Nepal youth pollution awareness movement change}

Art Jam in Bombay back in August! Using our Bindu Mandala Kit to bring people together through collaborative art and mus...
29/12/2025

Art Jam in Bombay back in August! Using our Bindu Mandala Kit to bring people together through collaborative art and music. is we are parts of the whole.
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22/12/2022

Unparalleled beauty & sound of the handmade. 🙏🏽❤️

The Art of Continuum: A creative workshop mapping the imprints of our livesDecember 14th, 3-5 pm at Bread & Chocolate, P...
08/12/2022

The Art of Continuum:
A creative workshop mapping the imprints of our lives
December 14th, 3-5 pm at Bread & Chocolate, Pondicherry
Open to limited participants ages 15+ / Rs1000
by registration only: [email protected]

As 2022 comes to a finale, we invite you to join us in writing, painting and movement to bring clarity to the narratives we are carrying from the past, making space to welcome the new. You will walk away from this creative workshop with a piece of new art depicting the deepest strokes of your life.

The facilitators:

Iffat Nawaz’s debut novel Shurjo’s Clan, was just released by Penguin India in November 2022. Her writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, Zubaan Books, Cosmopolitan India, Himal Southasian, The Indian Quarterly, and The Daily Star. Since 2018, Iffat has been living in Pondicherry where she is devoted to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo.

Krupa Jhaveri, PhD, is an Expressive Arts Therapist & Art Director. Born in the US and of Gujarati origin, she is a living bridge between cultures through art. She is the founder of Sankalpa: Art Journeys, based in Tamil Nadu and a TEDx Women speaker on "Art as a Mirror".

30/09/2022

The beauty of acceptance, repair and visible changes. 🙏🏽♥️

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