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"Transfer of knowledge. Thank you again. Yeboneers doing what you taught them." Feedback from Eleanor Louw, a Yeboneer Mentor, following our Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Resilience Workhops at Kaleo Farm in April this year. Made possible by The Waitrose Foundation - SA

The activity in this image is an embodied art making process that supports a new group to create together in a non-threatening way, and to elicit images from the collective unconscious in the room. These images build the foundation for further exploration through stories.

Our team was taught this activity by an amazing art counselor Phumzile Rakosa and she learned and adapted it via a training course in the UK. The sharing of knowledge and skills is a gift that we all have to build our communities together.

Thank you Nation Builder for gathering a group of passionate advocates at Workshop17 for wellbeing in the workspace in the social sector. We've heard from The Wellbeing Project that wellbeing inspires welldoing and we are grateful for the platform to share the role that arts-based practices can play in this field. We look forward to see what this collab comes up with over the next few months.

Marlize Swanepoel is with Elaine van Zyl and Juhanne Britz from Community Keepers in the third image.

Thank you so much for thinking of us. It is a timely reminder of the wonder people of Mzansi.

“But I think sometimes we also neglect that we inherit so much beauty from our ancestral archive. And resilience, joy, and so many, many things that I think we forget that we haven't just inherited trauma, but we've also inherited love and joy and gifts, and so many things.”
Dr Gcobani Qambela, Medical Anthropology lecturer, University of Johannesburg, 2021

Images depict participants in an Arts for Health workshop mapping the inherent strengths and resources of their community.

Thank you for supporting this practice.

"I am using this experience to build something brand new for me,
my family, my community and my team at work.” Participant reflection. Gauteng, 2024
People's innate creative resources stand to disrupt intergenerational trauma.
Thank you for the opportunity The Waitrose Foundation - SA

Another powerful offering from GroundSpring Playback Theatre Co. following the success of last month's performance at Theatre Arts

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GroundSpring Playback Theatre Co.recently created a poignant storytelling experience at Theatre Arts in Cape Town with their production called Barriers and Bridges. Here's what some of the participants said:

"I was struck by the courage all round; the participants, stepping up and sharing their stories. But also the collective who leaned into their intuition and into one another to find the pulse and alchemy of the story and bring it to life on the stage. The facilitators were very skilled in holding the space for the witnesses (the audience) and also framing the story to its essence."

“I can’t explain how much I enjoyed that, it was absolutely magical! What an interesting, beautiful process, I am really moved and touched by it, by the artistry and skill and what you all brought to it."

Watch this space for information on their next public show or get in touch to make a booking for a private, corporate or organisational event at [email protected]
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We love the energy of the youth! Thank you EKSE LIVE for hosting us to talk about the Arts Therapies and Mental Health.

We are excited to have our work published again, thank you Dramatherapy Journal for the platform.

The medicine in the circle: A case example of embodied arts-based community practice to address intergenerational trauma in rural South Africa - Marlize Swanepoel, Uné Conradie, 2023 This article shares extracts from an arts-based community model of mental healthcare that works with family and social systems to develop collective resilience ...

Inclusivity, and Nature: Eco Arts-Based Practices and the Environment.

Join online and be part of this thought provoking seminar!

Marlize from Spieel will be doing an online workshop and presentation, which you don’t want to miss!

Click on the link below to register. 👇

https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Centres/Global-Lives/Beyond-Crisis/Beyond-Crisis-seminar-series

Four seasons under one sky: Arts as a collective approach to creativity and healing in South Africa🇿🇦

“We are not alone in this world, and your child is my child.”

Check out the article Marlize wrote about the amazing work Sp(i)eel has been doing!

Thank you to the for the platform and opportunity to share our work with the rest of the world!

https://wellbeing-project.org/four-seasons-under-one-sky-arts-as-a-collective-approach-to-creativity-and-healing-in-south-africa/

https://medium.com//humanizing-social-development-lessons-from-the-bees-62486ff56d79

Humanizing Social Development — Lessons from the Bees In September this year a group of social impact leaders from Southern countries gathered in Istanbul for what would have been one of the…

Thank you Valcare for the nomination to join the Global Leadership Academy, hosted by AVPN in Istanbul. Marlize met her fellow South Africans whom she'll be joining and the excitement is real as the countdown begins to lift off next week!

Thank you The Waitrose Foundation - SA for trusting us to do this work, and to the participants for being co-creators in this journey to health and wellbeing.

We had the amazing opportunity to be part of this remarkable project!

Click on the link in the post to find out more about the project and the work that was created.

Participant feedback from one of our recent workshops in collaboration with The Waitrose Foundation - SA

“Sometimes you find that you just need someone to help you and show you what you already have”

“ I am so happy today because I learned so many things. How you can support the community, learn more about trauma, how you can handle the situation and help others with it. I am happy more than the word happy. I am in green pastures. “

Participant Feedback from our Collective Storytelling, Families and Collective Futures program in collaboration with

Catch .marlize tonight 20:00 on channel 144 talking about Sp(i)eel and what we do.

Last week five facilitators from Sp(i)eel has the opportunity to work with mothers and children from a farming community in the Eastern Cape.

Together we explored what mental health and well-being means in this community through the creative arts.

Thank you to for making this workshop possible.

This image is from our first of four pilot sites of our Families and Collective Futures program that we are rolling out in partnership with The Waitrose Foundation - SA. What could happen if we bring a whole community together to root into the present and dream into the future?