BySukant Deepak

February 4, 2020 (IANSlife) A public art installation on mental health awareness ‘Moving Out to Go Within’ by nine Ashoka University students, under the guidance of designer Sumant Jayakrishnan is on display at Stir Gallery, New Delhi from February 2 to April 15. The installation is being promoted by the India Art Fair.
 
Ashoka University’s Ashoka Centre for Well-Being (ACWB) in collaboration with Red Balloon’s Young People for Change put together a week-long residential workshop to initiate conversations around mental health among the youth. This workshop brought together nine young Ashoka students from diverse cultures and backgrounds to mindfully connect and explore the importance of emotional expression and self-awareness, and to build a sense of well-being. The experiential workshop was facilitated by psychotherapist and founding director of ACWB Dr. Arvinder J Singh.
 
The students’ experience culminated into this interactive public arts installation that shared the participants’ personal expression and messages of awareness on mental health, well-being and self-worth.

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Sukant Deepak can be contacted at sukant.d@ians.in