Expressive Arts · Art Therapy · Mental Health · Community Healing
Journey Together brings expressive arts and art therapy to marginalized communities in Nepal, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Cheyenne River Lakota Reservation — creating space for healing, voice, and connection.
“When words aren't enough, art speaks.”
— Participant, Cheyenne River Lakota Reservation, 2024
4
Communities
3,200+
Participants
15
Years of Practice
47+
Facilitators Trained
South Dakota, USA
Intergenerational trauma, cultural reclamation, youth healing circles
Nepal
Post-conflict grief, displacement, women's expressive arts groups
South Africa
Youth mental health, community resilience, post-apartheid healing
New Zealand
Māori and Pasifika wellbeing, land-based arts, decolonial healing practice
Every mark made, every song sung, every story told is an act of reclaiming. These are some of the moments that stay with us.
Cheyenne River Lakota Reservation, South Dakota · 2024
“Our children are painting what they couldn't say. That is medicine older than any clinic.”
— Community Elder
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal · 2023
“I had carried this grief for years. In that circle, with paint on my hands, I finally let some of it go.”
— Program Participant
Cape Town, South Africa · 2024
“They gave us clay and told us to make what we felt. I made something I didn't have words for. Everyone understood.”
— Youth Participant
Our work is grounded in expressive arts therapy — using visual art, movement, music, storytelling, and drama as pathways to mental health and community wellbeing.
Facilitated therapeutic sessions using visual art, movement, music, and drama to support mental health and emotional processing in community settings.
Group-based art and storytelling circles that build collective resilience, restore cultural identity, and create safe space for marginalized voices.
We train local community members as expressive arts facilitators, building sustainable, culturally grounded mental health capacity from within.
Programs rooted in Indigenous and local art traditions — weaving, carving, song, and ceremony — that reconnect people to identity and place.
Whether you are an expressive arts therapist, a mental health practitioner, an artist, or someone who simply believes in the power of creative healing — there is a place for you in this work.
