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Chicana Service Action Center
California
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
For many years I experienced both physical and verbal abuse by my husband, the father of my children. It was something I always hid. I felt that I was the only one who was wrong. My abuse was something that I lived every day and I was completely blind. I took …
United American Indian Involvement (UAII)
California
  • Social Justice
  • Social Justice (anti-oppression, restorative justice, systems change, etc.)
In February, UAII hosted the first of 6 workshops in the Women’s Empowerment workshop series. I facilitated a Touchstones workshop during this first session, for over 30 female participants from the UAII L.A. County American Indian/Alaskan Native community. …
Students Turn 4 Greatness
California
  • Community Engagement
  • Community Engagement
Elizabeth is an AWBW facilitator and the founder of Students Turn 4 Greatness in Northern California, which partners with local agencies to provide community outreach and educational services to people affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse…
Unite American Indian Involvement
California
  • Facilitator Spotlights
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…
Private Practice
Mexico
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Community Engagement
  • Social Justice (anti-oppression, restorative justice, systems change, etc.)
In this "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video, Eva Latapi-Silva, a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Mexico tells the story of 130 women participating in AWBW's "Messages of the Heart" workshop. Through this experience, they found empowe…
Desert Sanctuary Inc/Haley House
California
  • Domestic Violence
A lady came in for group who was very stoic at first. When I gave directions and asked if she had any questions she didn't, she was very quiet. I played music and shared about the art and what it did for me and she began to open up when she described her ar…
Safe Passage, Inc.
Indiana
  • Domestic Violence
This workshop had two participants, both in their mid-fifties. Both ladies are starting completely over after having survived domestic violence and sexual assault. One has just moved into her own housing and the other will be moving into her own apartment by t…
Child & Family Services
New York
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Advocacy (legislation, voter mobilization, etc.)
  • Domestic Violence
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Lucy Tschachtli, one of our longest serving facilitators. She first experienced art as a tool for healing in 1991, on AWBW Founder Cathy Salser's first tour across the country sharing art as a window …
Pathways for Change, Inc.
Massachusettes
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
This month something happened. I let go of all expectations. I went with the wind during this one workshop, and it really paid off! I “got out of my own way.” I think my survivors felt extra in tune with their emotions and abilities; maybe I just was capabl…
Children's Institute
CA
  • Community Violence
  The REACH Team supports children and families exposed to violence in South Los Angeles. We host workshops and support groups educating on the effects of being exposed to violence, how to cope with trauma, and promoting wellness to help build resilien…
Downtown Women's Center
California
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
While providing parents in a Southern California school district with parenting workshops, we are closing out the series with healing arts through AWBW. The goal is to aid their own creative approaches in leading healing arts with their children and mutually e…
The Nest
Kentucky
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Domestic Violence
  • LGBTQIA+
“Being a part of AWBW makes me feel supported and connected to this community of healers working to make this world a better place,” shares Patricia, an AWBW facilitator. After being trained by AWBW in early 2017, Patricia and her colleague Katie began offe…
YWCA - San Gabriel Valley
California
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
During one of my very first support group sessions, the "Center of My Universe" project was presented. I vividly remember how powerful it felt to trust my instincts and select the images I was drawn to. At the time I was so preoccupied with trying to get throu…
Helping Hands Resource Center
California
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Domestic Violence
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Sexual Assault
This powerful "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Karen Gonzalez, founder of Helping Hands Resource Center in Los Angeles. Karen is a domestic violence and sexual abuse survivor herself and became a Windows Facilitator in 2014. Here she shar…
Arise Daughter
Florida
  • Grief & Loss
The holidays can be a traumatizing time for women who have experienced reproductive loss. This workshop, designed by our team member Roxanne Fields, took us through the acknowledgment of how we are currently feeling and where we would like our feelings to even…
Just Detention International - South Africa
Gauteng Province
  • LGBTQIA+
“Therapeutic,” “Educational,” “Healing,” “Phenomenal” and “Spiritual” are some of the words used by participants to describe JDI-SA's three-day trauma-informed art and human sexuality workshop with members of the LGBTIQ+ community, some of whom are survivors o…
Women’s & Children’s Crisis Shelter
California
  • Domestic Violence
I organized a collage activity for the mothers currently residing at our shelter, inviting them to create visual representations of their hopes and dreams for the future. Each of them has faced the challenges of experiencing intimate partner violence, and I wa…
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
California
  • Incarceration
  • Incarceration
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
The Story Trees workshop was the first Windows workshop I facilitated at my new job. The women were recently released from prison and would not enter the art room without permission. But there was a look of sheer glee on their faces peeking into the room. I gu…
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
California
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
I work at a dual diagnosis substance use treatment center and mental health services outpatient facility with adults. Many of our patients are court mandated to treatment and have been previously incarcerated. Most patients have mental health diagnoses along w…
North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Center
California
  • Sexual Assault
  • Child Abuse / Neglect
  • Sexual Assault
This is a new client who is a survivor of sexual assault and child abuse. She is resilient and smart and a great artist. I noticed that through art she opens up and is able to share her thoughts and feelings, she can be shy and it has improved her unwilling…
Safe Passage
MA
Safe Passage
MA
I recently facilitated the "Mask of Survival" art workshop for a group of caregivers at Safe Passage, an organization that supports survivors of domestic violence.  We had five wonderful participants, all of whom shared some common life experiences: …
Women’s & Children’s Crisis Shelter
California
Women’s & Children’s Crisis Shelter
California
I organized a collage activity for the mothers currently residing at our shelter, inviting them to create visual representations of their hopes and dreams for the future. Each of them has faced the challenges of experiencing intimate partner violence…
Para Los Ninos
California
Para Los Ninos
California
Part of my role with Para Los Niños is to train and supervise master's level social work trainees by equipping them to work with our students with social emotional learning. Our student population is primary and secondary students who reside in or ar…
Sacramento Children's Home
California
Sacramento Children's Home
California
AWBW art Facilitator, Liz Miller Oliver, is the Training Specialist at Sacramento Children’s Home. The Organization provides crisis support for families residential care for foster youth who have suffered trauma and services for that focus on child a…
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
California
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
California
I work at a substance use disorder and mental health dual diagnosis outpatient facility with adults, most of whom are conditionally released to treatment by courts. Our supplies are limited and I adapted the Affirmation Mandala Shrinky Dink workshop …
Blossoms Windows
California
Blossoms Windows
California
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 dec…
A Greater Hope
California
A Greater Hope
California
The structure of the AWBW training (online and interactive), coupled with the detailed curriculum that provides easy to follow step by step instructions any paraprofessional can follow, combined with the universally engaging nature of the workshops m…
Downtown Women's Center
California
Downtown Women's Center
California
While providing parents in a Southern California school district with parenting workshops, we are closing out the series with healing arts through AWBW. The goal is to aid their own creative approaches in leading healing arts with their children and …
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
California
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
California
I work at a dual diagnosis substance use treatment center and mental health services outpatient facility with adults. Many of our patients are court mandated to treatment and have been previously incarcerated. Most patients have mental health diagnos…
Fresno Pacific University
California
Fresno Pacific University
California
Participants of this workshop were university students exploring personal growth. The goals of the workshop were to explore negative messages from their childhood and become aware of what negative messages are still with them they need to let go of. …
Catalyst
California
Catalyst
California
Leading the workshop "Inspiration Rocks!" to introduce A Window Between Worlds to the group at the domestic violence shelter where I work just made sense. Survivors in shelter have done rock painting for far longer than my tenure at the agency. Th…
Just Detention International - South Africa
Gauteng Province
Just Detention International - South Africa
Gauteng Province
“Therapeutic,” “Educational,” “Healing,” “Phenomenal” and “Spiritual” are some of the words used by participants to describe JDI-SA's three-day trauma-informed art and human sexuality workshop with members of the LGBTIQ+ community, some of whom are s…
Sure Helpline Center
California
Sure Helpline Center
California
This “Vision Seeds” video features Johana Ramirez, of Sure Helpline Center in El Centro, California. A Windows Facilitator since 2024, Johana reflects on her own journey of using art to anchor herself in the midst of trauma and chaos, and how today, …
PAVE
Wisconsin
PAVE
Wisconsin
This “Vision Seeds” video features Sylvia Ortiz, of PAVE, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. A Windows Facilitator since 2024, Sylvia anchors her vision for supporting Rooted in Resilience, seeing the leadership of each facilitator as branches of a collective…
Pathways to Healing
South Carolina
Pathways to Healing
South Carolina
This “Vision Seeds” video features Jessica Blizzard of Pathways to Healing in South Carolina. A Windows Facilitator since 2024, Jessica shares what is at the core of her journey as she embarks upon facilitating workshops for individuals living in cus…
Trauma and Healing in Color
California
Trauma and Healing in Color
California
This “Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories” video features La Shonda Coleman, LCSW, 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 mo…
Trauma and Healing in Color
California
Trauma and Healing in Color
California
This “Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories” video features La Shonda Coleman, LCSW, 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 mo…
Trauma and Healing in Color
California
Trauma and Healing in Color
California
This “Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories” video features La Shonda Coleman, LCSW, 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 mo…
Dallas Office of Arts and Culture
Texas
Dallas Office of Arts and Culture
Texas
This “Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories” video features Martine Philippe, Director of the Dallas Office of Arts and Culture. A Windows Facilitator since 2021, Martine shares how she used the AWBW Windows of Connection series to transform culture …
A Window Between Worlds
California
A Window Between Worlds
California
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 Souther…

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