TSP TAKE A MINUTE® IN INDIA
THE HOPE PROJECT
HOPE PROJECT resides inside of Delhi, India, population 35 million, in a primarily Muslim area around several tombs of of the Sufis, called Nizamuddin Basti. 20-30,000 people live there with overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, poor water supply, and a high incidence of disease and homelessness. In the outlying areas of Delhi, where the Mobile Health Unit provides traveling wellness services, residents are lacking basic infrastructure, with little access to health care for over one million people.
TSP has been in partnership with the Hope Project for over 20 years. The TSP program TAKE A MINUTE® Self-Care and Resiliency serves over 7800 persons per year.
CANSUPPORT
CANSUPPORT is India’s largest free home-care-team-based palliative/cancer organization. These highly skilled teams, made up of doctors, nurses, and counselor/therapists, bring care to the doorstep of patients too sick to travel, along with providing daycare, out-patient clinics, and mobile clinics. CanSupport offices and teams serve all sectors of Delhi’s 35 million people. CanSupport is now being replicated in major cities across India, where it is training cohorts of doctors, nurses, and counselor/therapists.
TSP has been in partnership with CanSupport India for over 15 years. The TSP program TAKE A MINUTE® Integrative Palliative Care serves over 4500 persons per year.
NEW LIGHT
NEW LIGHT is a registered charitable trust operating from the terrace of a temple deep inside the red-light district of Kalighat, Kolkata that offers comprehensive community development services. TSP’s program in Kolkata, India with NEW LIGHT is called Kalpataru, a groundbreaking restorative program. TSP’s part of the program is based on TAKE A MINUTE® Transformative Self-Care and Resiliency for trafficked women and girls, witch-hunted women, promoting creativity, dignity and women’s empowerment.
TSP’s partnership with New Light, now more than ten years old, serves over 400 women per year, when scheduled.
INDIA NURSES
SELF-CARE & RESILIENCY FOR NURSES: Each year, under the auspices of CanSupport, Zuleikha goes to various nursing colleges to offer sessions in TAKE A MINUTE® Self-Care and Resiliency to student nurses. For over a decade, TSP/Zuleikha has taught at many of these colleges and now TAKE A MINUTE® Self-Care and Resiliency for nurses is in over 40 nursing colleges. This year Zuleikha taught at three nursing colleges with other doctors and CanSupport staff. Under LEARN MORE is an overview of her experiences.
SHORT PROGRAMS
This year, TSP/Zuleikha was invited by CanSupport to visit Pune, India, where Zuleikha gave sessions to palliative care professional staff in TAKE A MINUTE® Self-Care and Resiliency and TSP TAKE A MINUTE® Integrative Palliative Care for their home care team.
Under the auspices of CanSupport, each year when David Oliviere, a consultant in psychosocial palliative care, visits India, Zuleikha is asked to lead a session for the Jon Baines Tours, a group of doctors, palliative care nurses and therapists in TAKE A MINUTE® Self-Care and Resiliency.
MOVEMENT MEDICINE
The Importance of Positive Interventions in Self-Care and Palliative Care
TSP’s Movement Medicine, a transformative self-care movement practice, serves as a proactive health intervention to combat the stresses of modern life.Today’s world is fast-paced, highly sedentary, and digitally overwhelming, making intentional movement essential for survival, not just fitness. TSP’s TAKE A MINUTE® Self-Care and Resiliency program focuses on marginalized and vulnerable communities globally.
Zuleikha created The Storydancer Project (TSP) in 2001 to address the lack of wellness education and resources locally and internationally and to bring resiliency and self-care skills to girls, women, children, families, and communities. TSP was incorporated as a non-profit in 2006. Zuleikha has been developing her unique TAKE A MINUTE® Self-Care and Resiliency movement program for the past two decades, and it has become a vital component of all TSP programs.
Healing and self-care do not need to be isolated individual burdens. TSP is working from the understanding that building collective resilience through holistic self-care in community is a powerful agent of change.
