24/06/2026
“Whatever you do… do it with love.”
The Blue Pearl Podcast is here — and our very first episode is with someone whose work has moved me profoundly.
Mike Ayvazian is a theatre practitioner, expressive arts therapist, and psychodrama facilitator based in Beirut. For over a decade he has been showing up — with displaced children, with blast survivors, with frontline workers across Lebanon, Syria, and Armenia — holding creative space in the middle of ongoing crisis.
In this 56-minute conversation we talk about transformation over resilience, the healing power of theatre and community, what it means to be in exactly the right place even when that place is in the midst of war, and Mike’s core philosophy that has guided everything: whatever you do… do it with love.
The issues Mike and his communities face are not only Lebanese or Armenian. They are global. This conversation is for anyone doing difficult, important work in complex times.
Listen now on YouTube https://youtu.be/XbcY90w_xjs
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