About us

Have you ever heard about workplace well-being?

Creating a well-being culture is not about another task to accomplish, another priority on top of thousands of other priorities. It’s about making the difference for your entire employee experience.

It’s about making your employees feel that you really care about their physical and mental health, their success, their talents, their efforts, and their struggles.

If you are one of those employers that are facing this hard time where it’s really difficult to keep all the pieces together, where the communication with the team is challenging, the team morale is not at its best, the stress is visible, the performances are down and the productivity too, I can tell you that I totally understand you and I know exactly what you are feeling.

Whatever you do with your teams, there are always critics. Your words of motivation meet a diffuse pessimism. And, even if you try hard with your communication skills, there are always some misunderstandings. As a consequence, the engagement is not at its peak! And the most critical and common aspect I found working in companies was the lack of trust towards management and a lack of communication.

I am Milena & this is my story

Most of my life I tried to do what was right.

Going to high school and then university, attaining my master’s and attending courses, living in London to learn English, working for a multinational company, etc. Giving my best to “perform”.

But the truth is that I was unhappy!
I felt unhappy about my life. Destroyed by the end of what I considered at that time “the love of my life”, and unhappy about my work.

My self-esteem was completely down and of course also my self-love.

At work I wanted to be promoted but wasn’t given the opportunity, I felt I couldn’t go far, and managing a team wasn’t an option.

Nevertheless, I received a lot of support and appreciation from my boss, management, and also from my international team of which I was part, but nothing happened!

To heal myself from my heartbreak, I jumped right into creative activities.
I started to do painting, pottery, raku, pyrography, and building furniture with pallets. I discovered also new hobbies like trekking, indoor climbing, and sky diving.

Besides exploring my creative side, I also started to invest in personal growth. It was time to understand more about myself and my limiting beliefs.

This led me to personal development courses and 2-year training in Coaching and Neuro-Semantics to improve my self-esteem, to rediscover who I really was, what I really wanted.

Slowly, I started to understand a lot of things about my emotional wounds and demons.

As I started to feel better, I realized that I had already what I needed. I had already everything to be happy. And the answer was simply there.

The treasure I had been looking for was me!

This changed everything, my perspective, my way of seeing things. I was looking at the world with new eyes. I got the key to my sorrow.

Finding art therapy on my way was like a natural consequence of what I had become and to me represented another breakthrough in my life.

I started art therapy as a student but before this, I used it to process the new Milena. Art had already been good to me. I knew it, I lived it, I felt it. It helped me to distract myself from the sadness I had inside.

But doing art therapy was something else.

Providing space for employees to play, joy and trust again

A call that I couldn’t ignore. Ignoring it would have meant ignoring myself. Today, with what I learned about art therapy through my own inner work and with my professional expertise, I help employees by providing them space where they can play, joy, and trust again.

By helping others being more authentic, I want to contribute to a new well-being culture within corporates, where art-making and creativity can help people to express themselves, release negative thoughts and stress, and find the work-life balance always desired.

Today my customers have a partner to count on, to rely on, as I want to give to employees a different environment. A workplace where to feel satisfied, motivated, appreciated, and listened to. Where to be free to express their potential and their own truth.

Today I run wellness programs and creative workshops based on art therapy and coaching techniques to empower teams and improve their quality of life.

The workplace well-being is not a new or passing trend but is a priority for innovative companies that want to succeed and face the new challenges of fast-changing markets and unexpected adversities.

Get to know me even better…

I’m independent, impatient, passionate, curious, reliable, practical, and pragmatic. I don’t like to talk much as I prefer to listen. One of my key skills is finding solutions.

I love handmade things, objects with a story behind, worn by time. The more an object is ruined the more it attracts my attention, like the old bunch of keys from the early 1900s that I bought in a market in Moscow 3 years ago.

I enjoy creating things, I like colors, art, and everything that is artistic and creative.

I also like business stuff: strategy, marketing, economy, organization, and most of all the principles of efficiency and efficacy.

My degree in Economics and my job in HR for automotive and industrial fields have been a strong influence on my way of thinking.

I enjoy food a lot. If I had my way, I would eat a proper Italian Sunday lunch every day. This is one of the reasons I don’t live with my mother! She’s a really good cook.