EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES THROUGH ENGAGEMENT IN CIRCUS ARTS
Holistic Circus Therapy
Holistic Circus Therapy (HCT), LLC is a registered, accredited private practice that combines occupational therapy with circus arts to address the unique health needs of individuals and communities. HCT provides professional development training, fieldwork placements, and direct client services that utilize circus as an evidence-based educational and therapeutic tool to increase functional capacities and occupational participation of service recipients.
100% of profits received from HCT’s services fund CircusAid projects. CircusAid is the social innovation branch of our integrated business model that provides free HCT services to help people displaced by war and natural disasters attain transferable life skills to promote greater success in unstable physical and political environments.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapists use innovative and creative ways to help people with physical, cognitive, and emotional limitations achieve balance and well-being. Combining circus and occupational therapy can improve coordination, body awareness, teamwork, problem-solving, perseverance, fitness, strength, and life skills for various populations.
The HCT Practice Model…
Uses circus as an empowerment and educational tool for individuals and communities.
Provides client-centered activities that reflect the interests, goals, and functional levels of participants.
Continually grades tasks that are challenging yet achievable, increasing self-motivation to participate and engage in the therapeutic process.
Provides interventions that focus on increasing capacities that enable participants to thrive and experience success in achieving self-care, leisure, and productivity goals.
Uses circus, as a discipline, to provide a variety of experiences and activities that facilitate positive emotional, physical, and mental health outcomes.
Combines occupational therapy and circus to promote a better quality of life through play, fun, and creative expression.
HCT Can Improve Participants’…
Emotional Health
Interacting in appropriately pitched circus activities promotes turn-taking, leadership, communication, empathy, expression, trust, and dependability.
Physical Health
The activities used in HCT increase body awareness, circulation, strength, tone, and flexibility.
Cognitive Function
Circus works the brain to increase gross and fine motor control, coordination, visual perceptual abilities, sequencing, and sense of rhythm as well as timing, reactions, bimanual hand use, and concentration.
Social Health
Circus skills are essential for healthy peer interaction and teamwork. This unique program focuses on highlighting an individual's strengths and providing life skills to improve their ability to function socially and become a positive active member of their society.
Building Transferable Life Skills
Circus promotes the acquisition of life skills essential for healthy development, including…
“BODY AWARNESS”
“PHYSICAL HEALTH”
“COMMUNICATION”
“PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL SUPPORT”
“SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS”
“LEADERSHIP”
“PROBLEM SOLVING”