SELF-DESIGNED
LEARNING ALLIANCE
Sukhmani Kohli
Sukhmani is a theatre and clown practitioner for 18 years. She has worked nationally and internationally. Her work as a clown and facilitator is centred around holding spaces and experiences for people of all ages where they feel free to be real and authentic and have deep, transformative conversations. She uses theatre, clowning, body wisdom practices and empathy to assist others in releasing shame and practice self-acceptance. She believes that art and performance are powerful entry points for moving through conflict and connecting with your own sense of magic, moving from scarcity to abundance.
Founder
Purple Mangoes
Cafe Kaffee Kuchh
Bean Here Been There
Co - Founder
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India Youth Jam
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Sukhmani runs Purple Mangoes, a company of facilitators who call themselves experience builders, gleaners and artists.
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She also founded community cafe called Cafe Kaffee Kuchh, a volunteer run weekly cafe and community space in Chandigarh (the cafe ran for 4 years), a storytelling-cafe-in-a-van called Cafe Bean here Bean There that travelled to 7 cities in a mobile cafe, collecting stories in 2012.
Sukhmani also the co-founded of India Youth Jam, week long gatherings of young change-makers and community leaders that focus on personal, interpersonal and systemic transformation. The Jam is funded and mentored by American based organisation YES!. (www.yesworld.org)
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Superpowers
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Clowning is not about putting on loud make-up, wearing big costumes and ‘acting’ funny. It is about being your true magical self with all your quirks, idiosyncrasies and weirdness.
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Theatre
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Creating stories, writing songs and scripts and all the way to making a show.
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Playshops
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Playshops are a space of joyful self discovery and play. We rediscover inner qualities of openness, spontaneity, and play, allowing our imagination to soar, whilst keeping our feet firmly on the ground. The workshop invites you to free your body and your voice, deepen the connection with your creativity, bring breath and ease back into your life, and build awareness of the wisdom of your body.
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Puppetry
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how to make puppets,
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manipulate, create and perform a show.
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Creative thinking through visual arts
Film Making
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Learning Journeys
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Safe Space Workshops
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Exploring themes like identities, gender, leadership and self discovery.
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Team Building Workshop
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Working as a team is about being open to different points of view and being more present to yourself and people around you
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Listening deeply - to themselves, others, their body language and their energies.
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Musical productions with children
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Theatre in all its glory with musical numbers, choreographed dances and drama.
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Involving children in every aspect of the show, from assisting direction, sound, lights, acting, dance and costumes.
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She works with children, young adults, working professionals, communities and organisations.
