About the course

For most of human history, communities and cultures have used stories and song, images and rituals, metaphors and movement, to express, process and integrate the joys and challenges of human existence.

As change-makers, care-givers, and champions of humanitarian values, we are familiar with the healing and transformative power of arts, for exploration, resistance, and dialogue. But what makes art such a powerful approach, an emergent yet time-tested methodology for intentional change?

In this short lecture, we return to the basics and conceptualise arts as a lens for meaning-making in the world. When encountering a new experience or observation, we often turn to personal mythology or analytical reasoning to make sense of this human data. Through reflexive exercises and a theoretical framework, I will introduce arts as an alternative approach that captures, represents or (re) interprets, a facet of the human condition or lived experience in a way that recognises its complexity, context, subjectivity and nuance. 

About the Guide - 

Supriya 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.