As a creative facilitator and guide, I create spaces for reflection, dialogue and transformation in individuals, groups, and communities. I offer workshops, 1:1 sessions, and immersive courses at the intersection of self-exploration and creative practice, nurturing personal growth through healing the inner artist.
My Focus: Emotional well-being, Creative Resilience, Narrative self-Inquiry, Work/life transitions
My Tools: Storytelling, Reflexive writing, Theatre, Psychology, Coaching
My Approach: Creating playful, non-judgemental and nourishing spaces to guide experiential engagement, gentle exploration and insightful reflection
Psychodrama Playback Theatre Counselling Improv Transactional Analysis Theatre Of The Oppressed Positive Psychology Narrative Research Self-writing
Other Credentials
- PhD in Organizational Behaviour from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
- 18+ years of experience across creative practice, research, learning and higher education
- Visiting Faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS, Mumbai)
- Published author and researcher. Read my publications here.
Workshops (75 – 120 minutes)
Customized for business organizations, university classrooms, artists and creative professionals
Orange Popsicle: (Re)Writing the Stories of Childhood
Through a curious, playful dive into memory-land, I guide participants to write from the spirit of childhood to bring alive a specific time, place and season in their lives. We add imagination and the wisdom of hindsight, creating space to re-author our narratives.
For writers and creatives, with Wellspringwords | At Barcelona Journalling Festival
Two Truths and A Lie: Writing Fiction from Real Life
Through memory, observation, storytelling and imagination, I guide participants to draw upon their lived experiences, apply specific fictionalising techniques, and shape them into compelling narratives.
For writers and storytellers, with Literary Liberation | 4-week course, with Litro Masterclasses
Where is the Dragon?: A storytelling workshop on courage and resilience
Using narrative, metaphor, and art, I help participants frame their life/career as an adventure, encounter their personal dragons, and uncover their unique repertoire of skills and strategies to fight these dragons.
For change-makers from service sector at the Self-work Festival, 2026 | At Delft edition of Barcelona Journalling Festival| For writers & creatives, with Bound | For facilitators, at Mischief Makers| For creatives, with Creative Mornings |For mid-to-senior leaders, at Mars Pet-care| For coaches & organisational scientists At the ABS Summit, 2021 | Book chapter published in Emergence: Sculpting New Thinking
Improvised Leadership: Cultivating creativity and collaboration
I use improv theatre exercises and the ‘Yes/And’ principle to help participants cultivate creativity, spontaneity, collaboration, intuition and future-ready openness to unpredictable change.
For mid-senior leaders at an engineering company | For creatives at the Bound Writers’ Retreat
Who Is Calling The Shots?: Unpacking inner conflicts and dilemmas
I use theatre and psychodrama techniques of ‘Cops In The Head’ to help individuals explore and interrogate the inner voices and multiple perspectives that influence their complex decisions.
For management students & executives at IIM-Bangalore, Research published in Organisational Aesthetics journal.
Charm or Be Charmed: Exploring leadership, power, and conformity
Through exercises from Boal’s theatre, I guide participants into reflecting upon their responses, beliefs, and values towards power dynamics in group situations.
For Organisation development students & executives at TISS, Mumbai
Courses
(15 to 30 hours)
Art and Organisational Development
This post-graduate course uses an experiential, reflexive approach to explore the intersection between art and organisational life. Participants connect with their inner creativity, adopt an artist’s lens to understand human phenomena, and learn to design their own arts-based developmental interventions for organisations.
Ideal for executive and post-graduate students of HR, management, organisational development, and leadership
Offered at TISS, Mumbai
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