Toward one’s preferred future

Sexual trauma can result in deep losses. Let’s name a few…loss of safety. Loss of voice. Loss of identity. Loss of relationships. While it is true that, sexual trauma can deeply affect every aspect of one’s life, each woman experiences and survives uniquely. Traumagenics is the art of understanding, processing, & mitigating [sexual] trauma.

Age at onset, relationship to the perpetrator(s), as well as presence or absence of a safe and emotionally intimate community, can have an effect on one’s ability to process the trauma(s). Learning to tell one’s story can be a powerful processing and mitigation tool for survivors. Storytelling can be done through verbalization and artistic expression.

Our Work

Round table discussions with international professionals

Integrated Freedom Approach implementation

HIV/AIDS testing and education

Therapeutic art

Mentoring leaders who work with sexually traumatized women and children

Language classes in a brothel that more than 700 women

Consulting with a safe community for women where they learn to make scarfs, bags, and jewelry during their time away from the brothel

Relationship building amongst other NGOs

Relationship and presence building with local workers in various cities

Multi-day training on trauma, sexual trauma, PTSD, CPTSD, body memories, Moral Injury

Introduction to the Integrated Freedom Approach

Therapeutic art

Teaching college students with regards to sexual trauma

Assessments for new works

Sex education for teen girls

Telling one’s story about the sexual violence one experienced, or is experiencing, can be both empowering and healing. To that end, these are some of the modes of expression we use TO undersrtand and mitigate [sexual] trauma

Conversations

Art

Blogcast

Academic papers

Workshops