Introducing Wellness at Hayy, a new initiative that focuses on fostering a culture of holistic health, sustainable living, spirituality and wellbeing across the arts. Throughout the year, we will collaborate with like-minded organisations and creatives to connect, share and empower our community and the public on the importance of looking after our bodies, mind, emotions and surroundings. 

Kicking off with an interactive and engaging workshop, in collaboration with the Adult and Child Therapy (ACT) Center, that seeks to open wide the meaning of narrative therapy, connecting storytelling to broader contexts and creative disciplines as a way of enhancing self-reflection and critical thinking on narrow discourses about the self, others and the world.  

Focusing on ‘single stories’ that are rife with stereotypes, the workshop aims to reconstruct stories into more nuanced, complex and empowering narratives that allow participants to be in, and interact, differently with the world. 

This workshop is suitable for 18+ years old and has limited seating. Registration required – please note, once at full capacity, the registration form will automatically close. 

Stay tuned for more activities and events centred on Wellness at Hayy!

About

Khadija Alem is a Saudi mental health counselor certified by SCFHS and currently working with adults at ACT Center to address various difficulties. Khadija holds a BA in Psychology and Communication & Media Studies from Franklin University Switzerland and an MS in Mental Health Counseling from Suffolk University (USA). With an interest in connecting therapy with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, Khadija hopes to reframe the field in the collective imagination as one that is equally invested in fostering curiosity, personal growth, and prevention as it is attentive to existing challenges.  

Adult and Child Therapy (ACT) Center is the first multidisciplinary therapeutic center in Saudi Arabia to be licensed by the Ministry of Health. Based in Jeddah, the center caters to children, adolescents, adults, geriatrics, couples, families, and corporate entities, providing them with psychotherapy and psychiatry, group therapy, parenting guidance, psycho-educational lectures, workshops as well as employee profiling and evaluation. The center also provides ABA individual sessions, Early intervention program, ABA parents education sessions, as well as complete speech problems detection and therapy.