PUNE: Sancheti Group has announced creative art therapy awards to identify and honour therapeutic use of arts in patient care.
“The use of dance, drama, art and music as a medium to heal is as old as our scriptures, yet has very little value today. This prompted us to launch our dance theory programme and build on therapeutic use of arts,” said said Manisha Sanghavi, executive director, Sancheti Group.

Elaborating, Sanghavi said, “We further discovered that so many selfless souls had dedicated their lives to combining creative art therapies with health care, which had shown phenomenal success in mental and physical health of people and we thought we should recognize their work with the creative art therapy awards.”

Sanghavi believes that these awards will open a new door of reassurance to the field of work, bring pride to the fraternity apart from a renewed sense of purpose to continue with their outstanding efforts.

The categories will include expressive arts therapies that are defined as the use of art, music, drama, dance/movement, poetry/creative writing, bibliotherapy, play, and sand-play within the context of psychotherapy, counselling, rehabilitation or medicine

Sanghavi said, “Creative art therapists have given their life’s sweat, effort and learning to help make the society a better place. They have toiled as hard as a medical professional, if not more, to bring wellness to the community. These zwards will recognise the silent heroes.”