**A TOOL FOR SOCIAL MEDIATION, RESEARCH AND SHARING**

Free and open to all thanks to ongoing support from the town of Graulhet (France) and the Scalabrini Center in Cape Town (South Africa), the workshops greet groups of five to twelve people around a theme dealing with identity and parenting. The project has allowed the integration and mixing of social and ethnic groups, with participants joining through word of mouth. Participants bond, the Body Maps grow and develop throughout the life of the workshop, transform themselves through their interpretation by others.

At the end of each series of workshops, that were worked on horizontally are raised and exhibited, taking on a new perspective.

“Exhibiting these works is an integral part of the therapy : the works become history, the trace of a process, a thinking out, a progression. These works, in which Beauty is not an objective, have an esthetic appeal of their own, one that resonates.”
Sylvie Groschatau, Processus créatifs en Art-thérapie - éditions Profac 2009

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university of cape town

► Participation in the conference "THE HEALING AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN SOUTH AFRICA" - July 2014 - UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

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SOCIAL MEDIATION

WOOD ZILL LLA RULE AT OUDE MOLEN VILLAGE IN CAPE TOWN - Workshop October 2014

Taking these kids to a camp to us is already an achievement.
We have high hopes that when they leave your place these kids won't be the same again. Even us as their leaders will come ut of the camp with more experience and skills that will later help us in inter-acting with them better and productively in future.

We would love them to take part in most if not all of the activities you offer in your place. We would also love to see them getting hands on, wise words from time to time from your team will be much appreciated.

Facebook Page of Wood Zil Lla Rule - Facebook Page of Oude Molen Food Garden Village

Info about Oude Molen : www.oudemolenecovillage.co.za

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THE CARTES DU CORPS/BODY MAPS PROJECT

The project is now in its 10th year of activity, between France and South Africa.

Begun in 2008 for the exhibition “Mapping Cultural Echoes” of the Voyage Ensemble, a Journey Together group (Scalabrini Centre for refugees, Cape Town, www.scalabrini.org.za) at the "Harare International Festival of the Arts" in Zimbabwe, the Body Maps project gave rise to a series of workshops and exhibitions in 2009 and 2010 of works created by users of the Scalabrini Center who had been victims of xenophobic attacks.

The works were exhibited in Graulhet as part of “Femmes de Mars” in 2008 and served as the point of departure for the Cartes du Corps project, centered on issues of identity - a project developed since 2009 in the French town of Graulhet with the support of the town and the region.

Noteworthy among the exhibitions of the works between 2009 and 2016 : “Tangible, Invisible”, at Cape Town Library, “Femmes de Mars” 2010 and 2013 and “Traversées Africaines 2014” in Graulhet, Tarn “Unite Africa” at the Centre d’art les Mazades in Toulouse and at the Scalabrini Center in Cape Town, AMKA / AWAKE ! 2013 - 2016 at the Scalabrini Center in Cape Town, Artistes en Bien-être, Forum de Graulhet, March 2016 , Colis Suspects "ça collectif en liberté !" ACAC Graulhet - Tarn, June 2016.

In 2013, Association 1,2,3 Les Timides received funding through the Local Cultural Contract program of the city of Graulhet for the production of a manual (“Manuel Pratique des Cartes du Corps”), a tool for research and sharing aimed at participants and the general public as well as providing guidance for practitioners.

The Body Map project “Wealth Inside, Body Mapping” was selected for participation in the Kampala Biennale in August 2014.

Clients of the Scalabrini Center are offered regular series of art-therapy workshops since 2013 as part of the AMKA/EVEIL programme.

SEE BODY MAPS AMKA 2013-2017

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MOSAICS

Since 1999, Sylvie Groschatau offers art therapy sessions to the clients of the Valkenberg Mental Hospital of Cape Town, South Africa, in partnership with the hospital’s Ergotherapy Department and the Friends of Valkenberg Trust. Patients produce clay tiles – a natural element that is both soothing and easy to handle. This basic material goes through transformations, much like the healing process itself.

Thus, the patients decorate their tiles with glass. Once fired, the glass forms a glaze. The patients take some of the tiles home with them; others are used in mosaic murals in the hospital’s various services.

This therapeutic activity channels individual creativity, alleviates anxiety and builds up a sense of personal dignity in a non-competitive setting.

The mosaics are part and parcel of the therapeutic process. They are valued by the patients, as they leave traces of beauty in remembrance of their stay. The Wall of Hands is the Wall of Fame! The trees grow and produce fruit.

Authorization to install the mosaics was given in 2004 by Dr Eick, the hospital’s Senior Medical Superintendant with the following written comment : “Wonderful work! Please go ahead!”

Art therapy helps in making the hospital stay a valuable experience, one that allows for clearer thinking, a refining and redirecting of emotions, a path to a new level of personal dignity, and a way to envision new openings for the future.

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"Dessine moi un oiseau" (Draw me a bird) - Mosaic workshops facilitated by Sylvie Groschateau in 2005 with the children from the French School François le Vaillant in Cape Town, South Africa.

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The sixteen five-year olds of the kindergarten class made the mosaic tiles and created a bird, inspired by the work of François le Vaillant, French explorer and ornithologist who came to South Africa in the eighteenth century and after whom the school is named. The mosaic has now become the school’s symbol.

www.ecolefrancaiseducap.co.za/fr