Penelope Orfanoudaki
🌟 Top Skills:
Art Therapy - Neuroscience - Psychology - Adults Group Therapy - Hospitality - Corporate background
Founder. Penelope is Greek born. Her emotional homes are Crete in Greece and Champéry in Switzerland, where she currently lives with her husband.
She is an international acclaimed Art Therapist. She has extensive experience in running groups, and her approach in art therapy is neuroscience informed . She is a Singapore's La Salle MA Art Therapy graduate and King's College London's Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health post-grad.
She has lived and worked in different countries in Europe and Asia. In Singapore and Hong Kong she worked with children. She served as the first ever art therapist for the national school for the blind, Ebenezer in Hong Kong.
Later, in Stockholm’s Folkuniversitetet, she run for 4 years adult group art therapy based courses, which were regularly sold out.
Penelope has two decades experience in international corporations. Quitting her corporate job and studying art therapy over a decade ago was her way to help herself recover from burnout. It was such a powerful and profound experience that it is now a passion to share and help others. Founding Artful Retreats is the result of this passion. Artful Retreats have been described by media innovative in their approach and run since 2016.
Penelope also holds a degree in IT, and an INSEAD Business Administration diploma.
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In Artful Retreats we join forces with some amazing people from around the world to create these programs. International art therapists, artists, tender hearted yoga instructors and delicious food makers.
Romny Vandoros
🌟 Top Skills:
Art Therapy - Fine Arts - Supervision - Children Special Needs - Autism - Elderly Memory Needs
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Romny is South African-born, living and practising art therapy in Sydney for over a decade, also providing Clinical Supervision.
As a Fine Art and Journalism graduate her early career focused on hospitality, public relations and later, advertising. Following her husband’s international career provided opportunities in a variety of countries for her to volunteer with causes she believed in.
Her love for art and helping others happily collided through Art Therapy.
Today she runs an established and successful private practise supporting children, adolescents and adults with a broad range of concerns. Her years of experience working in the special needs arena included individuals with cognitive/physical needs, children and adults with Autism and for several years she co-facilitated an art group for adults with ABI - stroke/aphasia at Macquarie University.
Her interest in aged care brought her to Sydney’s Memory Innovation Centre where during COVID she pioneered and ran online and in person popular art therapy groups for ageing Australians living with cognitive limitations and wellbeing concerns.
She is passionate in guiding people to develop a greater sense of self through their creative process, leading to meaningful change-making. She brings a uniquely creative, warm and intuitive approach to her work with clients.
Romny and Penelope were classmates during their MA in Art Therapy in Singapore’s La Salle.