SELF-AWARENESS COUNSELLING
1. Fertility Counselling - She assists and supports women fertility patients through their fertility treatment journeys by getting them to turn inwards and introspect as a starting point. She provides the patients with effective psychological tools to deal with their emotional symptoms from the treatment, such as fear, anxiety, sadness, confidence issues, expectation management, and grief. She is also there as an empathetic support system for her patients.Testimonial
“I am feeling so much lighter, calmer and feel more equipped to deal with the treatment”
2. Relationship Counselling - She has assisted over 200 singles in their journeys to find their life partners. She helps singles understand themselves and their needs in relationships, guides them with their profile creation, assists them with their dating skills, works through any mental/emotional blocks, and guides them through their journeys. Numerous clients are in relationships and are married under her guidance.Testimonial
"I was low on self-belief when I met you. You helped me highlight my strengths in my profile and I appreciate your support on how to progress my search. I started believing in myself and found my wife shortly after that."
3. Career Guidance & Mentoring - Helped her clients identify their strengths and passions. Enhanced their CVs and helped with their interview preparations. Her clients are gainfully employed in the work profiles of their choice.Testimonial
"I was made redundant and I was frustrated with my unsuccessful job hunt. Our sessions on vision boarding, finding my life's priorities, and revamping my CV, left me feeling clear and confident. As a result, I got all three job offers I applied for.”
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WORKSHOPS
She has conducted workshops with singles, youth, women and children. Some of her workshops were:1. Two-hour mindset support workshop for new patients of the CREATE IVF Clinic. She addresses what to expect from the IVF fertility treatment and certain emotional side effects. She also provides patients with effective psychological tools in the form of interventions; she conducts activities to demonstrate the usage of these tools in one's day-to-day life and shares her own treatment insights and learnings.Testimonial
“It was an exceptional workshop, I could resonate with a lot of points. I now feel motivated. I would highly recommend the workshop as it was very helpful for me. I will definitely be in touch for any future advice”
“I feel well-informed on what to expect from the treatment and I feel more equipped, confident and positive to go ahead with the treatment. Alzeyne is a good listener and was able to give me some useful suggestions on how to deal with my problem, which made me feel understood and supported”
2. Matrimony-Based Workshop for UNESCO's Parzor Foundation – "Me' in Matrimony'. Participants were asked to identify their top 3 life priorities, reflecting on personal qualities. Information on how to reach out to prospects was provided, including role-playing initial meetings with prospects and introductions. Topics such as long-distance relationships, dealing with feelings of rejection and dilemmas in the process were also covered. The workshop enabled a couple of participants to find their matches.
3. An emotional awareness workshop for Bombay Parsi Panchayat run Holiday Programme For Youth (HPY) – 'Emotional Hygiene'. A reflective workshop that got the participants to question themselves on their emotional self-awareness, the consequences of avoiding and accepting their feelings, and effective coping mechanisms to clear their conscious minds of toxic emotions and negative self-talk, so that they could use the power of their subconscious mind and tap into the intuitive wisdom of their higher selves. Testimonial
“I didn’t realise until now how transient our emotions are. If only we consciously choose to observe them as a third person, instead of fuelling them with our thoughts and judgements”
4. A workshop exploring the significance of relationships in our lives, for the Federation of Zoroastrian Youth Associations (FOZYA) - 'Nurturing Relationships'. The aspects captured were the need and purpose of relationships, the different kinds of relationships, a healthy versus unhealthy relationships, the building blocks, threads and nails in relationships, and how to build relationships with oneself, others and one’s community. Information dissemination to 130, 16-year-olds was found helpful. It resulted in other workshop opportunities with FOZYA.5. HIV/AIDS Management Workshops for Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) and related NGOs for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As part of the Community Intervention programme, she co-created and executed a life-skills training-based workshop for CSWs to bring about an attitudinal change. Also developed and executed a skills training workshop for NGOs working with the CSWs, having understood their challenges for better HIV/AIDS management in India. Created a detailed report of the workshop content and outcomes. The CSWs felt understood and empowered. The NGOs were grateful for the valuable suggestions in tackling their day-to-day issues.6. A workshop training senior nurse managers, in Communication & Empathy at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. Understanding the nature of the complaints (poor communication and lack of empathy) that the management was receiving, about the healthcare services provided by the nurses to their patients. Then a customised 3.5-hour experiential learning-based workshop was developed using reflective learning, drama therapy and group dynamics, for the nurse managers. The feedback received after a period of time from the hospital management was that they could see the benefits of the training, which resulted in overall better service delivery, lesser communication breakdowns leading to effective interventions, and a clearer and more empathetic communication style by nurses towards their patients and their relatives.
7. Value Education Workshop for Blossomm's High School – 'Core Building'. Developed and facilitated an experiential play-based workshop for 11-year-old school children, on abstract concepts like love, respect, peace etc. Received positive feedback from the students, teachers, principal and parents and was invited to hold more sessions in the schoolTestimonial
"Ma’am, I feel like this (peaceful, as I felt after this meditation exercise) when I hear the birds chirping on the trees when I walk home from school. I will remember your tips the next time I feel stressed."
8. Workshop Facilitation Training for Street Children of Touching Lives NGO for JP Morgan & Chase – 'Sanskruti – Learning through Play'. She led the project by researching, developing, and training JP Morgan Chase employees (as part of their CSR activities) to facilitate workshops for street children to achieve their developmental milestones. She also converted the content into a standardised formal manual containing game-based, therapeutic-driven activities and meaningful insights for the trainers, with detailed notes for the workshop facilitators on executing the exercises. Her psychological input in developing these workshops was most valued, and the manual is still in use in the centres of Touching Lives across India.
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RESEARCH
1. Submitted a research paper (under review) for publishing in the Whistling Woods International Journal. The research paper is titled "Authentic Self-Realisation for Self-Preservation of an Actor". The paper uses an interdisciplinary approach of psychology and acting in acting training. The focus is on self-realisation as a means to help the actor distinguish their actual self from their performance self as a way of self-preservation. The methodology involved developing a course which used the adaptation of Maslow's hierarchy of needs for an actor as an overarching structure. Jung's individuation process and Ekman and Sternberg's theories in the development of the activities for the course. Roger's Humanistic approach was adapted to the teaching method, teaching environment and assessment methods. 2. Embedding Consumer Psychology in Business Strategy for Drshti Strategic Research Services Pvt. Ltd. Providing consumer insights & collecting, identifying, interpreting and reporting research findings, for better service to my clients' consumers. Aspects researched were: Consumer Insights & Cultural understanding; Product Innovation, Evolution, User experience; Human Resource & Corporate Culture; Brand equity, Positioning & Tracking; Shopper Journeys; Communication Evolution & Testing. The feedback and research findings formed the basis of the FMCG Business strategies.Testimonial
"Thanks to your insights in the ethnographic study you undertook for us, we could confidently launch our new line of products."
3. Research Studies - Research tools, manuals and interventions were developed to address my client's needs/problems. Detailed research reports were presented at the end of the studies."Work-related Passion", content creation for Pathik HRD Institute. The content developed was to enable Pathik's clients to gain insights into their passion projects. The manual and the questionnaire are still in use in their 'I Can' Leadership Programme and are found helpful by their clients.Research Report for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - HIV/AIDS awareness. Developed and scored a scale to measure the attitude of commercial sex workers to life. Prepared a final report documenting all the findings, from the details of the scale, the research results, and the resultant intervention-based modules executed. Findings in the final extensive report were used by the Bill Gates-funded NGO working towards HIV/AIDS awareness in India. We also won another project from this client on the basis of this work.
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PSYCHOLOGY CONSULTATION
Application of psychological theories and principles in different ways across industries. 1. Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Commonwealth Games Association Assistant (CGA Assistant) of the Games Family Services
She was part of a niche group of the organising committee of the Commonwealth Games Collective. As part of the CGA Relations team, she got to work closely with and support the members of the 72 International CGAs (be it Chef de Missions, General Team Managers, Team delegates and dignitaries, athletes and coaches. Her multifaceted role involved participation in the day-to-day planning, operations and facilitating communication between the CGA services centre, the sporting team delegates, athletes and coaches. She was based in one of the athletes' residence villages and closely assisted the coaches and the athletes in getting them games ready.
2. Academic & Education
She developed a Self-awareness module for the Bachelor of Arts (BA) students at Whistling Woods International. The course content involved the students exploring their past, present, and future selves. The modules involved themes such as self-exploration, self-confidence and healing, and self-expression. Activities and reflective questions were provided for each module. She was also invited as an external examiner for the final self-portrait assessment project.
Testimonial
“I am not just less self-conscious, more confident, but some insights gained in the course helped me to make some important life decisions”
3. Strategic Planning & Image building
Strategic planning and managing networking groups for a UK-based, international networking platform, Zoroastrian Connection Pvt. Ltd. Drew up the vision, purpose, and output (in the way of setting out the different purpose-driven groups such as Professionals, Matrimonial, Women's Wellness, Community Information and Ideas Exchange, and Quiz and Games). She determined the detailed guidelines for the administrators and members of these nine groups. She also facilitated weekly activities for Singles in the Matrimonial group, where she would share individually curated profiles of the 200-odd members of the group, to enable effective engagement, which led to positive outcomes. Due to positive word of mouth, we had to switch from one platform to another to accommodate the growing number of members of the groups.
4. Film research
Short Film 'Mamaiji' co-created with Oorvazi Irani for SBI Impresario Pvt. Ltd. Designed the concept, psychological consult, content development, and post-production work for this socially relevant short film, 'Mamaiji'. Screened at the IAWRT Asian Woman's Film Festival, and The 7th International Documentary and Short Film festival of Kerala' Special focus' category. The film was also screened at Vikalp@Prithvi, FTII and NFAI.
Testimonial
"It was my deepest desire to have a movie made on my life. Thank you for making it possible."
5. Acting Skills, Performance Enhancement & Review
The Michael Chekhov Acting Technique DVD was co-created with Oorvazi Irani for SBI Impresario Pvt. Ltd. Alzeyne determined the content and psychology-based exercises, to adapt the "Michael Chekhov" Acting Technique into a visual medium. She also aided in the shooting and post-production work of the DVD film. Joanna Merlin, President of the Michael Chekhov Association, in New York, endorsed the DVD. Positive actors' feedback on the tools that led to authentic performances. Workshops are still being held in many reputed Acting Training Institutions in India, such as the Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Thespo at Prithvi, Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute, Whistling Woods International, and Film and Television Institute of India. This content is now being used at Whistling Woods International – Institute of Film, Communication & Creative Arts in Mumbai as part of their Bachelor and Master Programme curriculums.
Testimonial:
“Alzeyne has always been a great support in my artistic projects to help me discover myself and, at the same time, discover the essence of my artistic work.”
6. Content reviewPeer-reviewed research papers, publications, presentations, course content and proposals for colleagues and organisations for the last ten years. For instance, she reviewed the course on confidence-building. The 50-page course review report was found helpful by the course creator.•••
WRITING AND PUBLISHING
1. In the recent past, she has published an article titled, 'Finding meaning and balance during the pandemic', in the Psychotherapy Section Review of the British Psychological Society.
Ghadialy, A. (2022). Finding meaning and balance during the pandemic. Psychotherapy Section Review, 1(66), 24-27. doi:10.53841/bpspsr.2022.1.66.24
Read Article “Finding meaning and balance during the pandemic”
2. Below is a detailed article on Alzeyne's observations, insights and learnings around friendship. This article was inspired by friendships in her life.
3. She has written a collection of unpublished 40-odd poems, all inspired by human nature and strength. The motivation to write these poems is to inspire people to look within and into their surroundings - to find people with such character strengths and appreciate their presence while feeling grateful and encouraged.