The Yuva Ekta Foundation has been working at the Place of Safety and Special Home for Boys, Majnu ka Tila, New Delhi for over two years now. Even after the first phase of our pioneering research project ended in 2019, we continued our weekly Expressive Arts interventions with the inmates, deepening the impact of our work on concepts like Self-Image, Self-Esteem and Emotional Intelligence. With the announcement of the lockdown earlier this year, our physical visits to the Home stopped. For the first month, both the Home and our team were getting on calls with each other, trying to figure out the new modalities. By the time we got in touch with Boys at the Home, a lot of them were on the verge of being released on bail/parole, following social distancing norms at the Place of Safety. The ‘new’ normal saw us connecting with the boys online in May. This came with its own set of challenges. It meant more reliance on the staff members for their video call connections and a heavy dependence on the strength of internet connections. The start was jerky, and we often found it tough to engage effectively through the online medium. This was unchartered territory for us. We had to translate our workshops and activities onto the online medium and hope that there was no lag in more ways than one. The response from the Home however was terrific. There was an understanding and acceptance about the need for our weekly interventions that kept the boys occupied, and their minds diverted from feelings of loneliness and isolation which had increased during the lockdown. All other activities at the Home had stopped and visits by family members were also prohibited. Towards the end of June when lockdown restrictions began to be eased, we decided to take our work up a notch. The hunt began to setup a system with a camera and dedicated Wi-fi modem at our project site, in order to make our workshop process smoother and steadfast. Within two weeks, our idea came to fruition and we began openly experimenting and modifying Expressive Arts activities, now that the online world was falling into place. At this moment in time, two of our team members travel to the Place of Safety once a week, while a third co-facilitates the workshops on the Zoom platform online, thereby ensuring all rules of social distancing are met. It has been incredible to see how enthusiastically the boys have responded to these times, especially since most of them have never worked with us before. They came on board because they wanted to draw, paint and merely find some time away from their everyday life inside the Home. Now, they are a group of dedicated participants, open and eager, willing to create short theatre pieces about their life and expectations from the new world order outside. During this pandemic, our focus has singularly been to create a space for harnessing emotional well-being. Be it through art activities, theatre or creative writing, we are finding more ways to address the diversity of challenges that the boys are facing.