Self

  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Mental Health
Teresa Smith of Being the Best Me and Cathy Salser of AWBW share the origins of the Butterfly Journey Wheel and invite others to create their own resource for transformation and support.    They created the Butterfly Journey Wheel together as a way …
  • Grief & Loss
  • Grief & Loss
Before the Los Angeles fires, I had been consistently participating in a durational practice through a mural I created back in 2023. I created a gratitude and joy-based durational practice in hopes of cultivating more joy and gratitude for the little things in…
Su Casa
California
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
I work at an emergency shelter serving survivors of domestic violence and their children who are actively fleeing their person of harm and seeking refuge in a safe space. This particular workshop was conducted with a mother and her teenage son. Upon complet…
La Amistad Behavioral Health Services
Florida
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
  • Homelessness
  • Mental Health
  • Military & Veterans
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
I recently facilitated a workshop with our outpatient folks (I work in substance abuse recovery) and we were using the Windows of Connection worksheet. This was my first time using this worksheet, and I was drawn to the question that it raised, "How has the co…
Blossoms Windows
California
  • Grief & Loss
  • Grief & Loss
  • Mental Health
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
A good friend of mine, Dougie, crossed over the Rainbow Bridge at the end of May. He was only 56 years old. Within days of his passing, his widow, Sigrid, and I began talking about how brave he was – the way he handled his diagnosis, the thousand decisions tha…
Just Detention International
California
  • Incarceration
  • Incarceration
  • Sexual Assault
This “Vision Seeds” video features Nicole de la Torre, of Just Detention International. A Windows Facilitator since 2020, Nicole anchors her vision for supporting Rooted in Resilience, seeing the leadership of each facilitator as branches of a collective tree,…
United American Indian Involvement
California
  • Community Engagement
  • Community Violence
  • Social Justice
This “Uplifting Voices” video features Nikki Crow, a Prevention and Aftercare Care Coordinator at United American Indian Involvement in Los Angeles, CA. Nikki shares how the AWBW training transformed her journey and her ability to support indigenous families t…
A Window Between Worlds
California
  • Community Engagement
  • Child Abuse / Neglect
  • Community Engagement
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Mental Health
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Social Justice
In this Artists Talk video, AWBW Founder, Cathy Salser, dives deep into the heart of AWBW’s mission and the transformative power of art in healing and community building. This special “window of time” is part of the Artists Talk series of the Southern Californ…
Trauma and Healing in Color
California
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Community Engagement
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Mental Health
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
This “Innovator Spotlight” video features La Shonda Coleman, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs at Pepperdine University and Founder of Trauma and Healing in Colour, a program that fuses art, somatic based healing modalities, training and education t…
Stepping Forward LA
California
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Foster Care
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
This “Innovator Spotlight” video features Pat Conlon, from Stepping Forward LA, an organization dedicated to empowering young adults aging out of foster care to transition successfully to adulthood and reach their fullest potential.  Alongside former foster…
Unite American Indian Involvement
California
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Community Engagement
  • Community Violence
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Grief & Loss
  • Mental Health
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Social Justice
This “Innovator Spotlight” video features Nicole “Nikki” Crow, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes, is a Care Coordinator at United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) in the 7 Generations Prevention and Aftercare program. United American In…
Vistamar School
California
  • Schools & Universities
  • Advocacy
  • Mental Health
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
My name is Courtney Avrit and I am a senior at Vistamar School in El Segundo, California. During my final semester of high school for my senior project I was inclined to reach out to AWBW after hearing about it from a family friend. I am passionate about menta…
The Healing Chariot Counseling Services
California
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Community Violence
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Grief & Loss
  • Social Justice
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Christopher Harriott, LMFT, PPS, who is the founder of The Healing Chariot Counseling Services. Here he shares about his loss of safety, hope in humanity, and more following the death of George Floyd …
Prevail
Indiana
  • Child Abuse / Neglect
  • Child Abuse / Neglect
I had been working with a 10-year-old who has experienced trauma throughout her lifetime and she had been doing so well we were working on graduation from services. Together we created our crowns and decorated them with pompoms, feathers, googly eyes, and sequ…
United American Indian Involvement (UAII)
California
  • Social Justice
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Social Justice
I did this workshop for myself and my family. Following the death of George Floyd, I was having a hard time providing support to others when my own emotions were so raw. On top of that. I was feeling guilty because I felt like I should be out protesting; ho…
Between Friends
Illinois
  • Social Justice
  • Social Justice
After a training on providing clinical supervision, I was inspired to bring art into the mix. We used the "Intersectionality Masks" workshop with my graduate-level intern to help us talk both about our own intersectional identities within our supervisory relat…

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