A Therapeutic Approach

Harakat for the Performing Arts is founded on arts therapeutic effect to heal a child's unspoken woulds and enhance their learning and creativity. Creative practice in the Arts is considered one of the deepest ways of correcting behavior, since a child can express their problems in a safe setting and thereby more easily find solution. The Arts help a child define his/her/their goals in life and develop their own personality. Harakat approaches the Arts through psychodrama, giving children tools to output their feelings, hear different points of view, and process them through discussions that happen during performance and visual arts training. Our programmes are designed to help children who are at risk to overcome their familial traumas and become positive, healthy, and productive.

Our groups trainings use different forms of Arts to transfer developmental information, knowledge and skills. Through them, we come to understand the children, strengthen the role of each person in a group, and build their collaboration skills. Together we shift incorrect thoughts like discrimination, improve concentration, memory and logic, and instill acceptance of others and a feeling of inherent belonging. As a result of achieving and performing an artistic product that expresses the thoughts and views of the group, children develop more balanced emotional reactions to life's challenging circumstances, an increased taste for the Arts, and are overall more self-aware and confident. They ultimately identify as citizens who can postively contribute to society.