Festival Team · Capital of Care
The people building DAHF.
DAHF is led by a small, dedicated core team of artists, therapists and psychologists — each bringing deep expertise across their discipline, and a shared conviction that creativity and care belong together.
Festival Leadership
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Festival Director
Anvesha Vijay
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A counselling psychologist and expressive arts therapy practitioner, and founder of Aatmanveshan, an integrative mental health practice. Her work brings together intermodal expressive arts, trauma-informed care and relational approaches. She holds an MA in Clinical Psychology and a PG Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy, and is a Global Arts in Medicine Fellow.
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Festival Director
Pragyan Behera
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An expressive arts therapist, dance-movement facilitator and founder of The Safe Space Co. A lifelong dancer and performer, her trauma-informed practice weaves movement, somatic awareness and reflective dialogue. She is pursuing a PhD in Expressive Arts at the European Graduate School and is a former Global Arts in Medicine Fellow.
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Associate Festival Director
Jyotsna Ramachandran
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A psychologist and expressive arts therapy practitioner working across mental health, arts and community wellbeing. With Master’s degrees in Social Work and Counselling Psychology, her person-centred, queer-affirmative practice spans programme design, facilitation and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Chair · Global Development Lead
Dr Kunle Adewale
Global South Arts & Health
A Nigerian-born, UK-based multimedia artist and one of the world’s leading voices in arts and health. Dr Kunle founded Arts in Medicine Projects, the Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship and the Global Mental Health Fellowship — training over 1,000 practitioners across 60 countries and reaching more than 500,000 people in 41 cities. He is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at UCSF, a Mandela Washington Fellow, and currently leads one of the largest arts and health networks in the world.
Festival Team
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Festival Implementation Lead
Shilka Agarwal
Somatic and expressive arts therapist, researcher and founder of Mind Movement Collective, working across arts, trauma, embodiment and wellbeing.
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Communication and Design
Aarushi Panwar
Psychotherapist and Expressive Arts Therapy practitioner integrating talk therapy, expressive arts, embodied awareness and nature-based practice.
With Vibha Gupta · Tanishka Sharma · Sneha Bareja
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Logistics and Operations
Preeti Agrawal
Counselling psychologist, Dance Movement Therapy facilitator and couples therapist centring the body as a space for expression and connection.
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Fundraising and Grants
Anukriti Chawla
Counselling psychologist and Expressive Arts Therapy practitioner working from an intersectional, person-centred and process-oriented lens.
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Partnerships and Outreach
Riya
Dance Movement Therapy facilitator and arts-based practitioner creating movement and creative spaces across communities and organisations.
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Programming and Curation
Ishmeet Kaur
Educator, psychotherapist and Drama & Movement Therapy facilitator working across arts, mental health, learning and community engagement.
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Research and Documentation
Dr. Ananya Mahapatra
Psychiatrist, writer and bibliotherapy practitioner (AIIMS New Delhi) working at the intersection of psychiatry, literature and reflective writing.
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