About the course

When was the last time you encountered a dragon on your care and service journey? Did it block your path or breathe fire onto your motivations?

Walking the change-makers’ path with its inherent uncertainties and many-layered challenges, often feels like being in a never-ending adventure. We want to walk towards our vision, but the journey is often beset with dragons. Those that we encounter outside, and those that live deep within us.

How we meet these dragons matters. Do we fight or flee? Do we find refuge in our values, our communities, in small moments of impact? Do we find a way to accept and befriend the dragon?

In this workshop, we use personal storytelling through art, imagination and metaphor to uncover and discover our dragons. In a playful and nurturing space, you will draw and colour, reflect and explore, dialogue and share, coming into a deeper understanding of your persistent, significant challenges as change-makers.

Together, we will pause from a ‘warrior’ mode to gentler ways of encountering these dragons, tapping into self-compassion and our unique sources of resilience.

About the Guide - 

Supriya Rakesh is a creative facilitator and educator with a PH.D. in Organisational Behaviour from IIM, Bangalore. She draws upon her diverse, multi-disciplinary background in human development and research, fiction and storytelling, improvised theatre and psychodrama. She facilitates workshops and courses at the intersection of creativity and psychological well-being, across university, organisational, and creative contexts. Through approaches rooted in art, theatre, and narrative traditions, she cultivates playful and nourishing spaces for exploration and dialogue. As Visiting Professor at TISS, Mumbai, Supriya teaches a postgraduate course on ‘Art and Organisational development’. A published author and poet, she also enjoys performing improvised theatre. Originally from Mumbai, Supriya now lives in Amsterdam where is developing her facilitation practice while working on her first book.