Teacher's Training in Creative Skill Development for Children & Teens
Move beyond teaching art - learn to hold space for emotional expression & growth in children and teens.
About the Program
This 4-week immersive training is designed for teachers, beginners, and creative practitioners who wish to explore how art can become a meaningful tool to support the emotional and developmental needs of children and teenagers.
Blending theory, experiential learning, and reflective practice, this program offers both understanding and application—so you can begin working with sensitivity and confidence.
What You Will Learn
• Understanding children and their developmental stages.
Understanding their emotional needs (age
5-18)
• Expressive art tools & techniques for children & teens
• Integrating theory into your art practice
• Involving parents & caregivers meaningfully
• Building an ethical, sensitive, and informed approach
• Enhancing engagement, presence and confidence
Course Structure
Duration: 4 Weeks
Total Hours: 20 Hours
Format: Weekend Intensive
Sat & Sun (5 hours per week)
Energy Exchange
Course Fee: ₹20,000
Group discount (3+participants): ₹16,000
(limited seats)
What’s Included
• Certificate of Completion
• Training manual & guided resources
• Experiential art-based sessions
• Reflection circles & group discussions
Who This Is For
• Art teachers & educators
• Beginners exploring art-based work
• Creative practitioners & facilitators
• Anyone feeling called to support young individuals through art
Step into a space where art meets awareness—and learn to support young minds with presence, sensitivity, and depth.
Limited seats to maintain an intimate learning space.
Disclaimer: This program offers foundational, skills-based learning designed to support and enrich your existing teaching or art practice. For those seeking in-depth therapeutic training and supervision to become an art-based therapy facilitator, you may apply for our 10-week Art Therapy Certification.
Book your Art Therapy session
Art therapy opens a quiet, non-verbal space for healing—where feelings can take form through colour, texture, and movement. By engaging with the creative process, both therapist and client begin to understand, process and transform inner experiences.
In the gentle movement of art making, unspoken stories begin to emerge—softly, without pressure. What feels tangled within finds shape outside, where it can be held, witnessed, and understood.
Here, expression does not rely on words. Instead, the inner world unfolds through image and gesture, revealing what has been waiting to be known. In this space, creativity becomes a pathway—toward awareness, healing, and a deeper connection with oneself.
For 1:1 individual or group art therapy sessions.
Feedback and insights
Thank you sincerely for offering the group Art therapy workshop to us. I felt privileged to be part of such a creative and authentic group and for being led and guided by yourself in such a skilful and sensitive manner.
I felt I was always busy on the day, but really wanted to be present. I felt power and ease in the pause, in the reflection, in the art space and with the group. While not gifted with a capacity to draw, I loved the gentle ease into each, the guided meditation, and the direction for the initial sessions given by yourself Rutika.
The art process led me to a deeper place within where I was able to connect with inner emotions and feelings and they often resonated with the surrounding nature and people with whom I felt close to. Colour spoke volumes to me and helped give expression to my emotions.
I drew great strength and richness from the group sharing. I felt empowered and nurtured by it. I think it helped me cross a threshold of feeling a bit isolated, or separated from being very much connected.
I felt it was very humanising and a great sense of empathy, respect and trust within the group. I just loved the sharings and felt my soul had expanded after each session. Your feedback to myself and to others was very insightful and helpful. Rutika, I felt you were very much in tune and you have such a beautiful presence.
During the months, I noticed patterns in myself, and some shifted. I became more aware, and more accepting of challenges I had and saw them as part of humanity and was able to integrate them as part of my human journey.
Also, I experienced a deepening of gratitude for all blessings in my life and especially for being given the opportunity to be part of such an inspiring group. Overall, it was a very meaningful experience that had a positive impact on my self-image, and helped build emotional resilience and connection to a group of authentic people.
I am deeply grateful to you Rutika, and wish you every blessing in your work as an art therapist.
~ A.M., Group Art Therapy Participant
Thank you so much for creating the safe space last evening.
It was a beautiful experience of doing Art Therapy collectively. Drawing inspiration, motivation and learning was part of the space.
I liked your approach - very helpful.
Personally, I felt free to be and share in the space. I sensed blocks and entanglements - kind of a stuck feeling and tight, heavy emotions.
After expressing the emotions in colours, I felt relieved and comfortable and at ease in the body and mind, filled with an inflow of fresh energy - of quiet space within silence and light.
~ C.J., 3 Day Workshop Attendee
SOMATIC Healing Intensive
Participants learn regulating the nervous system & reconnecting to the mind-body (for self-healing as well as incorporating into your practice with clients).
Format: Experiential, trauma-informed, interactive.
Materials: Yoga mats, blankets, journal, water, soft music.
Who This Is For
1. Therapists, Coaches & Healers
Those who work with clients but feel something is missing—the body. Learn trauma-informed,
nervous-system-based tools to safely integrate into practice.
2. Individuals Healing from Stress, Trauma or Emotional Overwhelm
For those experiencing anxiety, shutdown, or repeated emotional patterns and seeking
deeper healing beyond talk-based approaches.
3. Sensitive & Highly Aware Individuals
Those who feel deeply, absorb others’ emotions, or struggle with boundaries.
4. Anyone Ready to Reconnect with Their Body
For those feeling disconnected, numb, or overly in their head—seeking grounding and presence.
This is not a performance-based training. It is a regulated, experiential space to learn safety from within—and carry that into life and work.
What You Will Learn
1. Foundations of Somatic Healing
2. Nervous System Regulation Tools
3. Trauma Release & Stored Emotion
4. Emotional Processing Through the Body
5. Repatterning & Embodiment
6. Integration & Closure
This is one of the most sought-after offerings, with participants reporting profound healing, deep nervous system shifts, and lasting mind–body integration.
Experience shared by those we’ve worked with
The Somatic Healing practice helped me come out of fear, anxiety, and depression. Before joining, I was in denial and carried a lot of resistance—I wasn’t even aware that I was experiencing depression or holding trauma.
Through these practices, I was able to gently release what was stored within me. This journey also brought a deep sense of clarity and self-awareness. I am truly grateful to Rutika ma’am for this experience.
– K.S., 11-Day Somatic Healing Participant
I cannot express enough gratitude for how deeply the 21-day Somatic healing class with Rutika ma’am transformed my understanding of true healing. For years, I had been on medications, feeling lost about where to seek help and slowly losing hope that recovery was even possible.
My body had suffered from prolonged neglect and emotional suppression. Through somatic, everything that was held within began to gently surface—creating space for real healing to unfold.
Today, I am able to listen to my body with greater awareness and respect. I no longer underestimate its role in psychosomatic healing, and I feel more connected to myself than ever before.
- N. J., 21-Day Somatic Healing Participant
1:1 Amulet / Charm Creation
A private, bespoke experience to create your personalised amulet or charm—designed for healing, protection, and inner alignment.
Guided by Rutika’s intuitive process as a gemologist trained at the Gemological Institute of America and a jewellery artist, each piece is thoughtfully crafted using natural gemstones, meaningful symbols, and energetic insight.
Rutika launched her jewellery brand in Ireland in 2020 and was honoured with the CIT Prize for Innovation the same year—bringing both technical expertise and artistic depth into every creation.
From intention setting to final ritual charging, the process is deeply personal—resulting in a piece that is not just worn, but felt.
The Experience
1. Intention Setting
Begin with a personal consultation to explore your intentions, emotional needs, and what you wish
to call into your life.
2. Gemstone & Symbol Selection
Choose from natural gemstones, meaningful symbols, and design elements that resonate with your
personal journey and energy.
3. Bespoke Design Process
Each piece is thoughtfully designed to reflect your individuality, healing path, and personal story.
4. Ritual Charging & Completion
Before completion, your amulet or charm is energetically charged with intention—making it a deeply
personal piece to carry with you.
Jewellery as ritual.
Jewellery as identity.
Jewellery as embodied self-expression.
By appointment only.
If you feel called to create something deeply personal.
