About Me
I'm Nisha Halai. ​
🔸 A Socio-Ecological Artist, Writer, Singer, and a Personal-Social Change Specialist, accompanying people to discover verbal and non-verbal Meaning through the Life Biography.I accompany people to access gentle artistic experiences of an encounter, so that we can each find and embody our true being - through Intuition. ​
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🔸 48 years experience exploring the importance of Change carried out rightly in our Time - through the Arts, Religions, Spiritual Practices - and a renewal of the Heart as a way to sensing opportunities to build bridges.
🔸 40 years of experience navigating a mother with mental health fluctuations striving to find her Self, and an authoritarian father who inspired the search for an inner authority of Presence and Peace. 10 years of whole person-based crisis counselling and therapeutic support, for children and young people in schools, their parents/carers, teachers, coworkers, and classroom assistants, as well as adults in private practice and group workshops.​
🔸 A Trauma-trained and informed practitioner for diverse abilities and neural capacities, including what can be referred to as SEND, SEMH, Autism, ADHD, ACE - including Eco-anxiety.​
🔸 Working in an interactive way to shape social environments and initiatives for wellbeing, I accompany individuals to develop capacities towards artistic freedom, through the path of self knowledge.
🔸 With an understanding of coordinating tailor-made inclusive experiences to accommodate diverse needs and questions, of our personal and shared Life Biography. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
🔸 Communications:asking questions, listening, creating writing, natural 2D and 3D art-making, objects, games, movement, stories, songs, rhymes - based on social pedagogical aspects of human development. ​​
🔸 Arts Media :Paper-based Drawing with Charcoal / Graphite Pencil / Colouring Pencils, Watercolour Painting, Ink Pens, Soft Pastels, Collage.Canvas paper and Canvas-based Oil Painting. Clay Modelling, and Stone Carving by hand. Biographical Creating Writing, Nature Observation, Poetry writing, Interactive Singing, Eurythmy movement, International Fairytales/Fables/Myths/Legends/Parables, Objects, Postcards, and Photographs.​​​
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Education
Tobias School of Art & Therapy. Sep 2016 - Apr 2021.
Masters Degree - Transpersonal Arts in Therapy (as related to Goethean Observation - a qualitative scientific methodology developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that focuses on holistic, participatory engagement with nature)
Rudolf Steiner House, London - 2026 - Speaking Poetry. Performing Arts International
Eurythmy4You.com, online
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2026 - Certificate - 12-step Wellbeing sequence of Eurythmy to strengthen our constitution.
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2024 - Certificate - 7-step Wellbeing sequence of Eurythmy for 'Highly Sensitive People'.
The Goetheannum
May 2025 - Dec 2027 Online cycle exploring: What the Case Histories Can Teach Us - 100 years of the book "Fundamentals of Therapy", by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman
Dr Tessabella Lovemore, online
Oct 2025-Oct 2026 - “Boys Born Anxious” - British Gestalt Journal
Denver Center for Anthroposophic Therapies, online
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs online course, with Dr Adam Blanning - Medical Section leader of The Goetheannum
Dr Tessabella Lovemore, online
2022-2023 - Listening for Decision-Making, and weekly practices
Tobias School of Art & Therapy, East Sussex
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July 2025 - Veil Painting for accessing deeper layers of trauma
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July 2019 - “How to Work with Trauma, Creatively” Workshop, working with the stories: The Red Shoes, The Handless Maiden, and The Metamorphosis.
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July 2016 - “I-Kan-Dinski” art workshop, working intuitively with music and gestures to access unconscious pictures of memory.
Tonalis Music - 2017 - The Therapeutic Power of Singing
Goldsmiths College, New Cross - 2022 - Gospel, Soul, Jazz Singing
Rudolf Steiner House, London - 2022 - Michael Chekhov Approach to Acting and Theatre, Performing Arts International
Emerson College, Forest Row
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2021-2022 - Quietude Practitioner training to accompany people in the journey of dying, as a crossing of a threshold, which can also seen as an opportunity for renewal
School of Storytelling :
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2020 - Auto-biographical Stories and Wonder Tales - weaving together traditional and personal stories into one performance.
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2021 - The Lost Islands (online) - Balancing our ‘older’ and ‘younger’ sibling, through the embodiment of the ‘simpleton’ / ‘fool’ archetype
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2016 - In A Land Far, Far, Away - songs and stories to inspire, educate and engage ‘children’
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Member of the BACP, British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
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Member of the AATA, Association of Anthroposophic Therapeutic Arts
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Member of The Anthroposophical Society GB
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Member of the Eurythmy Community Circle of Eurythmy4You.com
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Member of Disclosure Scotland - Enhanced Protected Vulnerability Group - Adults and Children (DBS)
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Creative Member of Aberdeen Interfaith Society / The Melting Pot Collective / FINE Artists Collective / Grampian Association of Storytellers / ISKCON Watford / Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community London UK / Inayatiyya Sufi Order / Christian Community - Movement for Religious Renewal