Creative Arts ..... here we come...

Phew... finally the 12m 32 secs of having to narrate the Dream A dream video at the MDA gala night was over. Having to do this while I was standing just about 15feet where the Governor was sitting. The response from the audience was a wonderful project that BOLD had worked on...
One Professor from UKM commented that it was good of MDA to share and contributing to the community. We sure hope we will have a yearly funding from them and I mentioned about our HOPES and Dreams to set up the 1st Creative Arts Therapy centre in Penang. Every one was very excited and we do hold our hands to make this a reality in the near future.

Earlier in the afternoon I was at ACS -Bold opening and created a micro mini Dream a Dream corner playing the video over and over again for the guests arriving for the opening day.
BFong and Ester were so excited watching the video over and over again and refused moved off, while Eunice started to dance with the fan. Choon Kent and Lee Son were there too. Only Julian and Joyce did not turn up.






Creative Arts centre here we come.............
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My small world play

Since I was in BOLD, I took the opportunity to create my small world play in the sand tray. Did not do much reflection, except the feeling of being tired, relief and yet concern with activities one after another not ending.... I paused and think, have I stretched myself in wanting to learn what is out there? Do I long for the peace I used to enjoy high up on the hills? The scene seemed quite bare with a gorilla by itself, a pair of deers and a pair of elephants overlooking from the hills with trees around them, a pair of turtles on the river, a pair of frogs in the inner pool, a porcupine and a platypus. A turquoise snake emerging from its hiding position and a blue snake coming in from somewhere out there.
The animals on the higher ground seemed to be looking out of what was happening below, while the lower animals were all looking out where the blue snake was coming in... Kind of peaceful, yet there seemed to be danger too with the blue snake emerging. What danger again if the blue snake can be accepted within the community?
The tall spiral monument at the far end seemed to be guarding the river.... a light tower, the energy source ?

Looking at the whole sand tray, the prominent figure seemed to be the blue back turtle with purple feet near the river bank....The turquoise snake seemed to be looking at the blue snake? Is it coming home? The kind of lone rangers are the gorilla, platypus and the porcupine...will do a story on it sometime...m tired....



Return back to Earth-- or shall I called it "Tze-Y tao yuan"... i created this tray after removing the animals and trees from the 1st tray. Took the colored dried flowers, dried leaves and sprinkled on the sand, along with the shells, stones, wooden beads done earlier. The pointed monumental object seemed intact, seemed to remind me of the "truth seeker" and the line of shells cupped on both side of the river banks with their little secrets, aspirations, fears, hopes .....
As I gave a final look at the tray, before clearing all the objects away, it seemed to give me some peace as i buried both palms underneath the sand for a moment and feel the sensation of the soft sand--- returning back to earth...

Wordless you r always available for me....

DreamAdream lies in the heart of the Shan Children though the project ended on Jun 14 with their final performance. The theme song composed by Junita from Indonesia, who was 1 of the facilitator leading in Music wrote the lyrics while working with the special needs children : "Wordless u r always available for me... I need your care and love if I have a chance to choose. **I want to be like them, could do everything... My Hope and my Dream give me your care and love... Do u see my Hope... do u see my Dream..." The 5 children who attended DAD spontaneously sang the song while queuing up for their final rituals after prayers... The other children echoed after them. Suren asked me when will DreamAdream part 2 starts? I told him I m thinking about HOPE and immediately Aarvien answered lets do "HOPE n Dream...." What a brilliant idea from him. There is always the Glimmer of Hope in these children that no matter how hard, life will have to go on where there is HOPE. After all Hope is a Waking Dream.........

It was great that I was able to connect with I-ling, Melinda and Seok Binn for a short disscussion on our Mission Impossible. We did not plan to meet, somehow we were on Skype and we got connected. So we had our learnings together... Every member is working hard on the mission impossible to achieve the dateline of July 4'09. More n more information on the Mind-meister and the slides on slide-share are also taking it's places. I must thank "I-ling, Melinda and Seok-Binn for being the Motivators especially in their ALS presentation with the other members; Jo and Hazel. They have laid the basic foundation to start the SWP team off. We are holding on for one another, never losing sight of Our dreams... and also the DATELINE of 07042009...

Hope is A Waking Dream... Dream A Dream...

The curtain for Dream a dream came down on June 14... The curtain for CPPD '09 is up, so much to learn, to catch up on...elagg, mind miester, slide share... Mission Impossible project dateline on July 4'09.
I wonder the thirsty turtle finds its way to the locate the source water...leading it to the sea... The 23 children did well in dream a dream when the adults were so fearful that something may popped up, can't hold them for too long....blablabla. Why can't we trust them? Why do we have such fears? hmmm I wonder?

The following day it was child trauma workshop in BBraun for 4 days. Min C and myself facilitated the module on Avoidance beside conducting a 3 hours session on Right Brain Processing (in simple words - Creative Arts lo...) We covered 6part story, constructing my safe place and the Rose Bush for the 40plus participants. The 4th day ended with all the participants holding hands and connecting us to the core of this program though initiated by UNICEF, but would not have been possible without Dr Lai and especially Indranee who did most of the work, bringing and putting all together. We were all seated on Rainbow colours of chifons and the colourful strips linked us back to the centre while singing the song: "If we hold on together...I know our dreams will never die.... " by Celine Dion.

So now, wake up---wake up --- its CPPD > small world play now at station: zxizxzc... (trying to get the transmission la...) Sorry members I m back...