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Creative Well-being for the Modern Workplace
business/corporate
In today’s high-pressure work environment, 78% of employees report burnout and 47% identify stress as a key contributor to mental health concerns (Deloitte & UKG, 2022).
At YAASS, we partner with you to embed wellness with creative thinking in the essence of workplace culture. Our evidence-based approaches foster psychological safety, empathy, cohesion, communication and authentic connection—core ingredients in any organisation for effective, resilient, innovative and strategic leadership, collaboration, and employee engagement.
We offer:
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- Customisable Employee Assistance Programmes (E.A.P.)
- Team-building workshops and leadership retreats
- C.S.R. aligned mental health and arts initiatives
- D.E.I. driven creative engagement
Don’t know what you are looking for?
We work with you to define needs, goals and protocols, while being your accountability partners along the way. From Insight and Imagination to Iteration, YAASS wants to support your workplace transformation to a safe, creative, resilient, and emotionally intelligent ecosystem, where people feel seen, supported, and inspired to thrive.
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Arts for Mental Health in Education
Educational Institution
In schools, educators are more than teachers—they’re also caregivers, counsellors, and emotional anchors. At the same time, students face rising academic, social, and emotional pressures. YAASS supports one and all.
We offer evidence-based Expressive Arts and Creative Arts Therapy solutions that improve student mental health, emotional literacy, and social development—showing up to 87.5% improvement in depression and significant reduction in behavioral challenges.
Our school partnerships entail building inclusive ecosystems where students, educators, and caregivers feel seen and supported. We co-create safe, creative, and emotionally resilient educational communities—where well-being, imagination, and learning go hand in hand.
Offerings include:
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- Creative and Expressive Arts Therapy workshops and interventions aligned with curriculum and/or real time challenges/ needs.
- Access different kinds of support like Therapeutic Theatre, Cinema Therapy, Financial Health and self care, Drama Therapy, Music Therapy, Dance Movement Therapy, Art Therapy etc. (Visit Modules of Care for more information)
- Seminars, webinars, and retreats
- Group and individual support
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Arts in Healthcare: A Holistic Partner in Healing
Healthcare center
“The arts (in all modalities) have a significant impact on health and wellbeing across the lifespan and across a variety of physical and mental health conditions.”
— Deanne Gray, ANZACATA (2022)
At YAASS, we integrate Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies into medical and mental health settings like hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, and wellness programs. Our approach complements clinical care by addressing the emotional, physiological, psychological, and social dimensions of healing.
Additionally, research says arts-based interventions show a reduction in burnout symptoms among healthcare professionals—with 35.5% reduction in depression, 27.8% in anxiety, and 25.8% in PTSD (source: JAMA Network, 2022).
Through multimodal arts practices, we aim to:
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- Support clinical outcomes with patient-centered, trauma-informed care
- Strengthen emotional insight and connection between patients and providers
- Foster agency, dignity, and meaning through creative expression
- Build resilience, presence, and self-regulation for patients and staff
- Offer therapeutic, strength-based environments tailored to diverse needs
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Arts for Collective Healing, Empowerment, & Social Change
Community organizations
We collaborate with NGOs, non-profits, and grassroots movements to offer trauma-informed arts for healing, empowerment, and long-term community well-being.
Especially with communities impacted by systemic inequality, marginalisation, or collective trauma, access to creative, culturally responsive mental health care is not just beneficial—it’s essential. We co-create safe, inclusive spaces for everyone to be able to process the way they think, feel and act while reclaiming voice, agency and reconnecting with their resilient wisdom.
Our programs deliver to your context and community needs through:
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- Ongoing/ occasional sessions and group support
- Therapeutic theatre and storytelling for social dialogue
- Participatory workshops, webinars/ seminars rooted in dignity, imagination, and resilience
Whether your focus is mental health, gender equity, education, livelihood, or justice—our goal is to co-create transformative, accessible experiences that center collective care and creative empowerment.
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Arts for Intimacy, Expression, & Emotional Safety in Film & Media
Flims
We offer perspective, clarity and trauma-informed practices to the world of performance and production using Creative Arts Therapies for intimacy coordination, embodied awareness, consent-driven practices, emotional regulation, and creative expression for artists and consultation.
Our offerings include:
- Intimacy Coordination with a focus on consent, boundaries, and actor well-being
- Script and Character Consultations to support sensitive storytelling
- Actor Training to boost emotional resilience, embodiment, and smoother transitions in and out of roles, reducing psychological risk.
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- Creative and Directorial Support for ethical, inclusive, and trauma-informed processes
- Cinema Therapy and Film-Based Video Therapy to explore identity, healing, and narrative re-authoring
Whether on set, in rehearsal, or during post-production, YAASS fosters more resilient creative environments, where vulnerability becomes a strength, not a liability.
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The Art of Mental Strength: Creative Therapies for Athletes & Sports Communities
Flims
Athletes operate under intense pressure; balancing competition, performance expectations, and physical demands. These stressors are often layered with challenges like gender inequity, body image concerns, injury stigma, and emotional trauma, especially among female and marginalised athletes (Niekerk et al., 2023; Reardon et al., 2019).
At YAASS, we offer arts for health and education solutions tailored for the sporting world. Our evidence-backed therapies empower athletes to be mentally and physically fit, resilient, emotionally intelligent beings with a deeper connection to themselves, their teams and different levels of the organisation. .
Did you know?
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- Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) shows 60–62% improvement in depression, anxiety, and interpersonal skills.
- Music Therapy boosts emotional resilience (95%), well-being (79%), and employability (80%)
- Theatre-based interventions reduce negative attitudes toward injury by 25.36%.
From elite athletes to grassroots teams, we help build creative, emotionally intelligent, and high-performing sports ecosystems—on and off the field.
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Creative Arts Therapy
Creative Arts Therapy
At YAASS we offer services in all modalities:
- Dance Movement Therapy: The psychotherapeutic use of dance, movement, body awareness, and embodied communication to foster healing and well-being for all individuals, families, and communities.
(American Dance Therapy Association) - Drama Therapy: embodied practice that is active and experiential. This approach can provide the context for participants to tell their stories, set goals and solve problems, express feelings, or achieve catharsis. Through drama, the depth and breadth of inner experience can be actively explored and interpersonal relationship skills can be enhanced. (North American Drama Therapy Association)
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- Music Therapy: The clinical & evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. Music therapy interventions can address a variety of healthcare & educational goals:
-Promote Wellness
-Manage Stress
-Alleviate Pain
-Express Feelings
-Enhance Memory
-Improve Communication
-Promote Physical Rehabilitation
and more (American Music Therapy Association) - Art Therapy: A form of psychotherapy that uses visual and tactile media as a means of self expression and communication. Art therapists
to support people of all ages and abilities and at all stages of life, to discover an outlet for often complex and confusin
g feelings, and foster self awareness and growth. (British Association of Art Therapists)
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Expressive Arts Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy
A multimodal approach that integrates visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing, and other creative processes in psychology, organizational development, community arts, and education.It is geared towards fostering deep personal growth, community development, and gaining access to inner resources for healing, clarity, and creativity.
(International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA)
(International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA)
Cinema Therapy
Cinema Therapy
or movie therapy uses the process of watching films with intention to provide emotional release, and insights. It invites participants to witness stories that mirror, disrupt, or expand their own experiences.
- Metaphor & Mirror: Explore how characters and narratives reflect personal themes, challenges, or strengths.
- Meaning-Making: Use scenes and cinematic elements to evoke reflection, emotional release, and reframe inner narratives.
- Bridging Insight to Action: Apply metaphors from film to build internal resources, cultivate empathy, and nurture transformation.
Therapeutic Theatre
Therapeutic Theatre
is the intentional use of performance to address psychological, physical, & social concerns, & promote health & well being.
- Reminiscence: Inviting reflection, meaning-making and honoring lived experiences through performance.
- Recovery: A space to explore emotions, access internal and external resources, support regulation and integration.
- Rehabilitation: Improved self-awareness, communication, and building capacity to be spontaneous and creative in the moment.
- Advocacy & Agency: Accessing your truth, rehearsing new ways of being, building confidence, resilience, and power to your voice.
Trauma Stewardship for Caregivers via Expressive Arts Therapy
Trauma Stewardship for Caregivers via Expressive Arts Therapy
is to identify and actively support the impact of vicarious trauma exposure for trauma-affected individuals eg. medical professionals, first responders, social workers etc.
- Witnessing & Release: Develop a sense of self awareness, recognize and express vicarious trauma through arts-based modalities.
- Reflection & Integration: Build personal rituals to process and regulate caregiving fatigue, nurturing ethical action and integrity in one's practice.
- Sustainability & Resilience: Engage in creative acts that reconnect you to purpose, community, and joy while honoring your own needs.
Financial Healthcare via Expressive Arts Therapy
Financial Healthcare via Expressive Arts Therapy
addresses the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, relational, & economic factors that influence our relationship with money.
- Cognitive Reframing/Re-structuring: to explore, deconstruct internalized belief systems around money, and shift harmful scripts.
- Emotional Awareness and Regulation: to access, externalize, and regulate financial anxieties and emotions.
- Rehearse and Transform: to identify roles and unhelpful habits, practice new/ desired behaviours & outcomes.
- Build Insight, Perspective and Support: to tap into resources of strength and support, explore abundance and take proactive steps.
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