South Africa

Luna’s Training Partner in South Africa is Lefika La Phodiso, which is Africa’s first Art Therapy Centre, established in 1993 in response to the effects of trauma from political violence in the final years of apartheid in South Africa. Today Lefika works to better the lives of those individuals, families and communities affected by abuse, crime, poverty, xenophobia and HIV AIDS. This work predominantly takes place within Johannesburg’s townships and inner city where the levels of these problems are amongst the very highest in the world. It is the only organization in South Africa which trains local people in Community Art Counselling skills. In February/March 2012 Luna ran a very successful training week there which resulted in 27 people receiving Level 2 certificates.   Lefika’s Director Hayley Berman then attended CATT level 3 training at Pennthorpe School in July 2012 and her colleague Luke Lamprecht was sponsored by Luna to attend the Level 3 course in July 2013. Together they ran their own CATT Level 2 course in 2014.