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Trauma Informed Art Therapy

The Refugees

The underprivileged

Art Psychotherapy 

Women Children Youth

Upclose and personal with Shireen

A Minute Marvel- Shireen speaks about the need for art therapy in the Arab world, and why she can't see herself doing anything else!

About Kaynouna عن كينونة

Our Initiatives مبادرات كينونة

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  • SELFEIKUNA Initiative, Empowering Women through Art in Arab World. Trauma Informed Art Psychotherapy groups and training to thousands of underprivileged &Refugee women /May 2017- PRESENT
  • ARTING OUT initiative - trauma informed art psychotherapy sessions with thousands of refugee & underprivileged children/ 2015- Present
  • ANALYZING CHILDREN’S DRAWING, Art therapy with disadvantaged schools and private schools. Ministry of Happiness, UAE/ 2017
  • DAVINICI’S CHILDREN INITIATIVE, Art Psychotherapy groups with children orphans, their alternative mothers&graduate orphans. Jordan/2016

Art Therapy Training تدريب علاج نفسي بالفن

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  • Kaynouna offers art therapy training that is edited according to target audience (psychosocial teams, teachers, nurses and curious minds).
  • We have trained and worked with more than 20 NGO's and community centers accross the Arab world (even Gaza)!
  • Some of our partners & collaborators: IOM, IRC, CVT, UNHCR, MERCY CORPS, SHOMAN FOUNDATION, QUEEN RANIA AL ALAMAN FUND FOR ORPHANS, UN PONT PER, SAVE THE CHILDREN, HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL, MINISTRY OF HAPPINESS (UAE)- among many others

Art Therapy with Syrian Refugees

CNN interviews Kaynouna's founder about Art Therapy with Syrian Refugees


HardWork and DeepLove

Introduction to Art Therapy Certificate

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Deepen your personal and your team's knowledge with an 'Introduction to Art Therapy Certificate.' Attend an Experiential Introductory workshop; case studies, art therapy and insight.

BOOK- Send us your CV and request- we will inform you of next Art Therapy- Introduction workshop

Trauma Informed Art Therapy

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Trauma Informed Art Therapy for the refugees, the orphans & children of the Arab World & beyond. 

TRAIN your psycho-social team.  

SELF-CARE for your team. 

Attend a WORKSHOP & DIG within 

SELFIE KUّNA ّسيلفي كُن - Empowering Arab Women Through Art


  

'SELFIE KUّ NA ّسيلفي كُن’ - Empowering Arab Women Through Art-  an initiative that has reached thousands of Palestinian, Jordanian, Syrian, Sudanese, Iraqi, Kurdish, Yemeni and Lebanese women from underprivileged & refugee communities in the Arab world!

  

Selfiekuna's focuses on building the empowerment, resilience, self-confidence, and the self-compassion of many Arab women- all while providing them with the safe space to express, process and contain their feelings in a healthy manner.       

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Conferences, talks & research papers

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  • TEDx Talk- University of Jordan. ’Why I Became an Art Therapist in the Arab World’. 
  • Art Therapy as an Innovative Treatment of Trauma’ paper. ‘Transgenerational Trauma Conference’. Amman/April 2017.
  • 'Art Therapy with Syrian Refugees’ paper. ‘International Art Therapy Conference. London/2016. **Published ATOL
  • 'Art Therapy in Gaza’ paper. ‘2016 International Conference on Art Therapy' Hong Kong/ 2016 scheduled for publication 2019. 
  • ‘Art Therapy with Orphans of Jordan’ paper at the ‘Canadian Art Therapy Conference' Toronto/2016

Interviews & Feautures

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TEDx,   CNN. Al-Jazeera English,   BBC Arabic,       Al-Jazeera Mubasher.   Jordan Times. Al Hayat. Al Ghad. Al Itihad,  A Minute Marvel,   The WhatNews- among others

Why Kaynouna? لِمَ كينونة؟

Art Psychotherapy with the Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and the Arab World. Deaths boats, abandoned houses and severe trauma are not just themes but harsh realities that children and adults will agonize over for generations to come if not dealt with correctly. 


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Kaynouna Art Therapy Center

Amman, Jordan

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