TAHI Taster Workshops 2026

Begin the new year with discoveries, curiosity, and creativity with TAHI’s bite-sized workshops. Find here different themes within the field of the creative arts therapies and the expressive arts practice/therapy. From foundations and principles to context-focused practice; from personal professional development to exploring wellbeing, we’ll explore the field of the creative arts therapies and the expressive arts, and how this can be applied to your own fields of work and practice.

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Where culture meets theory meets practice

Learn how the stories of our lived experiences can be told through movement, sensation, and voice.

Embodied Storytelling

  • provides a foundation for real-time interpretation of cues, supports emotional regulation, and can help prevent professional burnout

  • allows us to explore our own biases, as narratives are shaped by cultural experience

  • creates a deeper awareness of both self and others, and fosters emotional intelligence in a meaningful, grounded way

April 19, 2026 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
MAGIS Creative Spaces, Ayala Alabang Village, Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila

In this workshop, you will:

  • understand how embodied insight developed through storytelling can support wellbeing, by using the creative arts to hone emotional intelligence.

Who is this workshop for?

  • Adults with an interest in emotional intelligence and creative arts (21+) 

  • Human service professionals, government, and non-government workers, people in the private sector who wish to incorporate the use of the arts in health into their contexts, expressive arts enthusiasts with no access to local training, artists

  • The training will be designed to be neuroaffirmative; keeping this in mind, participants are encouraged to bring a comfort item if needed)

Resource Person

Dr. Neha Christopher

PhD, BC-DMT, AThR, MSc

A globally-engaged dance/movement therapist and educator bridging clinical work, research and social justice. With a PhD investigating the neuro-biological power of embodied resilience, she has worked across India, Nepal, the Dominican Republic and the US, and co-founded the Indian Association of Dance/Movement Therapy. As core faculty at the University of Melbourne, she advances neuro-dance therapy for treatment-resistant depression and diverse populations.

Frequently Asked Questions

 

  • No, but you may incorporate the use of expressive arts within your current practice. In order to practice as an expressive arts therapist, further studies are required. The European Graduate school with whom TAHI is affiliated offers an MA in Expressive Arts Therapy program. More details can be found at this link

  • Each workshop indicates if it is online, face-to-face, or a combination of both. If you are not based in Metro Manila, you may have to make special arrangements in order to attend any face-to-face sessions. We can provide you with a list of options for accommodations upon request.

  • No, workshops identified as F2F will not have an online option.