MAGIS Creative Spaces

MAGIS Creative Spaces is a center for healing and learning through the expressive arts. It offers services and programs to increase the accessibility and enrich the experience of psychosocial interventions for mental wellbeing. This is done through both traditional and alternative therapies, and trauma-informed, therapeutic-practice-based programs. MAGIS advocates for the expressive arts for self-care, mental wellness, and resilience. MAGIS began in 2013, catering to individual psychosocial needs of children. Housed in the Learning Child School, Alabang, its primary thrust was to impact the life of a child through his learning environment. This was done and is maintained today with creative extra-curricular activities for children, and a developmental therapy department, focused on Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy, and expressive arts psychotherapy. Today, MAGIS’ vision has evolved to focus on bringing the value of the arts to various contexts: schools, workplaces, and underserved communities. The program design process at MAGIS cultivates the integration of the arts into creative psychosocial wellness interventions, supported by psychological and scientific background. This is applied to everyday contexts and for all ages through purposefully-designed activities for mindfulness, playful and experiential learning, and expression and reflection for self-awareness and self-regulation.