“I dream of offering collective happiness to people who are the lovers of arts and theatre. I connect and reconnect those people all over the world through the vision of ICST Nepal.”

Bhawani Aryal (Gopal)
CEO of ICST Nepal

A young man in Nepal helps to heal the broken hearts. Working with Americares, Bhawani Aryal (Gopal) Founder and CEO of International Centre for Social Theatre Nepal uses theatre mto bring about mental health awareness and healing in communities devastated by the 2015 earthquake.
Mountain Dreaming - Theater Residency & Learning Journey is an amalgamation of the art of theater, dragon dreaming (www.dragondreaming.org), theory U, spirituality and nature. It is a week-long group and individual process of finding inner self and discovering 'others in Me' and 'Me in others'. The program provides tools that are useful for group and individuals for personal and professional growth along with problem solving and healing. Bringing together organizations and individuals using art, theater and creative participatory approaches, Mountain Dreaming invites a generative dialogue on our shared challenges while seeking social change through personal transformation.
We promote social norms and positive behaviour of the people through public awareness and capacity building to establish psychosocial well-being.
We established the company with the goal of changing communities through theatre and performing arts. We uses theatre for psychosocial support, safe construction, protection issues which includes gender based violence, child labour, child marriage, trafficking, other violent behaviours including harmful tradition practices i.e. chaupadi, witch craft and dowry system and human rights programs, health and hygiene and education.
We envision resilient communities where there is no violence, abuse, exploitation and discrimination through capacity building and mass awareness.
“I dream of offering collective happiness to people who are the lovers of arts and theatre. I connect and reconnect those people all over the world through the vision of ICST Nepal.”
CEO of ICST Nepal