Art, Co-Creation, and Community Health Interventions

The four-day workshop organized by CFAW in Nepal was centered around creativity, co-creation, and community-driven intervention design. The workshops brought together changemakers, scientists, and participants from four countries. The workshop facilitated by CFAW utilized art as a powerful tool for reflection and solution-building in health-related challenges. Guided by CFAW’s adaptation of Stephen K. Levine’s expressive arts therapy methods, the sessions provided participants with imaginative spaces to explore holistic health and shared responsibility.

Following the grantee selection, a co-design workshop was conducted to bring together the grantees and the AI-Sarosh Secretariat with the aim of knowledge sharing, cross-learning, comprehensive understanding of the project, fine-tuning all the project designs, improve strategies for achieving project objectives, and ensure that data collection was in alignment with AI-Saorsh's overarching vision.

Day 3: Play/Visualize

'Ending Credits Scene' - Reflective Art Making by CFAW

Arts aiding a disciplined range of play is breakdown between play, disciplined clear interventions and harvesting. The research for this methodology is based on Stephen K. Levine's expressive arts therapy methods adapted and originally designed by CFAW that focuses on a combined approach of imaginary reality and play as experiential learning.

The reflective art-making activity focused more on individual expression than collective expression. In a space of 1 hour, the participants were given personal canvases and metaphorical listing for their wellbeing trees to be painted in. The concept for ending credits scenes is to personally reflect what their last scene of their movie looks like, focusing more on the holistic health structure to set clear intentions.

Participants were guided and facilitated to paint trees by each elements as a reflection of a holistic health branch to put it more clearly. For example, the tree trunk represents physical health, how healthy the trunk is depends on each participant's wellbeing reflection. The activity was designed for participants or rather scientists and changemakers to reflect on their own wellbeing and set clear intentions in the process of adapting interventions for AI based health models. 

Day 4: Impact - Reconnect 

Mine and Yours - AI Sarosh co created artwork discussion

Mine and yours is a collective artwork created during the entire course of the workshop. This painting comprises all 4 countries and their approaches in poetic and artistic formats expressing how essential creativity is for collective change.

Mine and Yours is named for the co-design concept of acknowledging hub and cross learning. The focus of the painting by Bhawna Lohana and Rutaba Syed

Team CFAW was to highlight that each AI-SMRH intervention in presented proposals showcased a sense of collective approach, community and structured prevention

from issues such as postpartum depression, sexual and reproductive education for young adults, cervical cancer detection, postnatal care, etc. The artwork is a blend of every conversation held in the room over the span of 4 days, the true essence of co-creation between everything yours and mine.

The workshop was designed to help people think creatively painting that was developed in their space that was catering to different themes related to women's sexual reproductive health co-design workshop dealt as if the entire South Asia came together to work on solutions. This workshop reminded the scientists that they are the changemakers, that they are implementing what they are making, different art space methods within the workshop. CFAW designed a pivotal role in planning out the workshop that happened in Nepal. We helped the attendees explore their creative side while thinking as a human and their creative capacities to make solutions more community integrated.