Adults

Safe Parking LA
California
  • Homelessness
  • Homelessness
Tina is a 26 year old woman who never thought she would find herself experiencing homelessness and living in her vehicle. A falling out with her family and lack of community support left her fending for herself. Tina had big dreams of finishing her degree and …
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
California
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
I work at a substance use disorder treatment facility, supporting adults in an outpatient setting. I facilitate a group specifically for clients with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. Recently, I facilitated the Lotus Flower art worksh…
YWCA - San Gabriel Valley
California
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
Abuse had been a part of my life since childhood. There was no place in which I could express myself, no person to whom I could reveal what was happening. My family told me that what happens at home stays at home. At 21 I met my husband, a policeman, and I …
Partners Against Violence
California
  • Sexual Assault
  • Mental Health
  • Sexual Assault
I held this workshop in a one-on-one counseling session with a client. This client is on her path of healing from sexual violence, but finds the ups and downs to be quite overwhelming. This workshop allowed her to identify the high, low, and resiliency zones s…
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…
Sacramento Children’s Home
California
  • Staff & Organizational Development
  • Staff & Organizational Development
The Team Agreements workshop was conducted for department staff at Sacramento Children's Home, aimed at strengthening team communication. The department's leadership chose this workshop to enable the team to collaboratively create agreements that would support…
Community Health Action of Staten Island
New York
  • Social Justice
  • Social Justice
On September 20th, in Kathmandu, Nepal, 35 graduate students pursuing their Master’s in Mental Health Counseling participated in a Touchstone art workshop. These students, many of whom are preparing to become frontline mental health professionals, engaged deep…
Radiant Futures
California
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
These drawings were created by a participant who sought services due to a history of family violence. For this participant, I used inspiration from the Touchstone Journey and The Monster in Me workshops. For this piece, a single pencil became a tool for profou…
Downtown Women's Center
California
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • 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…
Insight Human Services Women's Recovery Center
North Carolina
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
We began our art group late one day because a fight broke out between two participants just before we started. I was really worried we would have to ask one or both of the women to leave our treatment program, and for one of them, leaving the program would hav…
Women’s & Children’s Crisis Shelter
California
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
  • Homelessness
I work at a domestic violence shelter that provides safety and support for victims fleeing abusive intimate partner relationships. Currently, we are housing three families with children ranging in age from 1 to 8 years old. Every year, we participate in the Sh…
Safe Place for Youth
California
  • Homelessness
  • Homelessness
This past Christmas Eve, I facilitated a “Who’s With Me?” workshop with three members from Safe Place for Youth, all in their early twenties. Participants were invited to create artwork representing a higher power, guardian angel, guiding light, or source of s…
Indigenous Strategies for HONOR Collective
Arizona
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Staff & Organizational Development
In this video, Melodie Lopez shares how art serves as a powerful tool for healing, connection, and cultural resilience. Through creative workshops, she helps individuals and communities navigate trauma, express their experiences, and build stronger connections…
Center of Life
Pennslyvania
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Community Engagement
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Staff & Organizational Development
In this video, Kiyomi Knox shares how creative practices like Self-Care Safety Plans, Intention Touchstones, and Kintsugi help staff and community members find moments of reflection, healing, and connection. By integrating art into daily routines and professio…
UCLA Health
California
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Grief & Loss
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Staff & Organizational Development
For our Spring project, I wanted to incorporate the idea of blossoming and hope. Initially, a colleague of mine brought up the idea of planting flowers/plants, which then sprung on the idea for this project.  Personally, I spent the last year doing a lot of…
Healing Through Art
California
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
  • Sexual Assault
This artwork was from women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. The art was expressions of places in their heart that gave them peace. The art of the woman with teardrops was her pain from loving and not receiving love back. As the women bega…
Shelter from the Storm
California
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
  • Immigration
Ksenia fled a domestic violence situation with her spouse and has been on a journey of building herself up and finding herself and her voice again, as in her relationship she was very controlled. She is also doing work to find her place in the U.S. as she is f…
The Artistry Circle
North Carolina
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
I facilitated the Vision Flowers art workshop for a group of community members looking to reconnect with their inner voice and reflect on the personal values guiding their lives. Inspired by Manuela Rojas’ Personal Needs Flower, this workshop invited attendees…
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…
The Adult Skills Center
California
  • Disability Services
  • Disability Services
  • Grief & Loss
I facilitated the Touchstone Journey art workshop for a group of four adults, aged 30 to 43, with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The participants’ life experiences included challenges such as the loss of parents through death or divorce and exper…
Radiant Futures
California
Radiant Futures
California
This artwork, titled “La SabidurĂ­a de Amar,” or “The Wisdom of Love,” was created by a 57-year-old woman with a physical disability who sought support to process the recent loss of her dog who was her support animal. Noticing that she struggled to ex…
Safe Parking LA
California
Safe Parking LA
California
At the Safe Parking LA Women’s Lot, we serve female-identifying individuals and families experiencing vehicular homelessness. During this co-led AWBW session, we served two female-led households with daughters ages 10 and 7, along with six single wom…
YWCA Greater Los Angeles
California
YWCA Greater Los Angeles
California
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), and in honor of standing in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault, we facilitate "Teal Tuesday" workshops. We invited survivors to join us in creating "Butterflies of Healing.” One of the butterfl…
UCLA Health
California
UCLA Health
California
For our Spring project, I wanted to incorporate the idea of blossoming and hope. Initially, a colleague of mine brought up the idea of planting flowers/plants, which then sprung on the idea for this project.  Personally, I spent the last year doin…
Safe Parking LA
California
Safe Parking LA
California
Tina is a 26 year old woman who never thought she would find herself experiencing homelessness and living in her vehicle. A falling out with her family and lack of community support left her fending for herself. Tina had big dreams of finishing her d…
Adapt Integrated Health Care
Oregon
Adapt Integrated Health Care
Oregon
The room was quiet in that familiar, almost sacred way it often became during group—somewhere between nervous energy and honest reflection. The sign on the whiteboard read: Getting Back in the Zone. Markers, pastels, and blank paper were spread ac…
Native Connections
South Dakota
Native Connections
South Dakota
We did a women's wellness event for the tribal community that was open to all women. Since our entire community has the shared intergenerational trauma of being survivors of genocide, the assumption is that we can all benefit from creating shared hea…
Safe Place for Youth
California
Safe Place for Youth
California
This past Christmas Eve, I facilitated a “Who’s With Me?” workshop with three members from Safe Place for Youth, all in their early twenties. Participants were invited to create artwork representing a higher power, guardian angel, guiding light, or s…
Arts Connection
California
Arts Connection
California
For this workshop I had my partner do the “Cup of Gratitude” activity. I chose this activity for my partner because he typically works in a stressful environment at work and I wanted to bring a sense of calmness to his mind and space by doing this wo…
Yoga & Art for Recovery and Healing
California
Yoga & Art for Recovery and Healing
California
It had been a long time since my girlfriends and I had all been able to gather together. We are each in different seasons of life, with some raising kids, some caring for pets, and all of us, including me, balancing busy schedules and responsibilitie…
Families Together of Orange County
California
Families Together of Orange County
California
This quarter, I wanted to facilitate a workshop for my local women’s group, Ladies Mingle. This group was created to help women in Orange County and nearby cities find joy. I found the group while on maternity leave and seeking connection with other …
Adapt Integrated Health Care
Oregon
Adapt Integrated Health Care
Oregon
Entering recovery from substance use can feel overwhelming, especially in the earliest days, when emotions resurface and the future feels uncertain or undeserved. The Celebrating Firsts workshop allowed participants to create space and reflect on som…
Su Casa
California
Su Casa
California
Through my work at a domestic violence emergency shelter, I had the pleasure of incorporating the AWBW framework via monthly Art of Healing workshops with participants who were actively fleeing the person who caused them harm. One of the workshops th…
Partners Against Violence
California
Partners Against Violence
California
I held this workshop in a one-on-one counseling session with a client. This client is on her path of healing from sexual violence, but finds the ups and downs to be quite overwhelming. This workshop allowed her to identify the high, low, and resilien…
SWO Native Connections
South Dakota
SWO Native Connections
South Dakota
I worked with a group of 6 women in an ongoing Mending Broken Hearts Wellbriety Grief group that has been meeting weekly for the past several months. The MBH program is a culturally sensitive approach to healing from grief, loss, and intergenerationa…
The Way Resource Center
California
The Way Resource Center
California
It was an honor to facilitate a Financial Healing workshop that created a safe and supportive space for participants in our career development program to explore their relationship with money through a healing-centered lens.  Throughout the sessio…
Safe Place for Youth
California
Safe Place for Youth
California
Just before the end of the year, I facilitated a version of the AWBW Absorb and Release workshop with two young adults at Safe Place for Youth. S.P.Y. supports young people experiencing homelessness through healing art programming and other services.…
Volusia Recovery Alliance, Inc.
Florida
Volusia Recovery Alliance, Inc.
Florida
I am a former Firefighter and was gifted a scholarship to become an AWBW facilitator. With that I have been able to take AWBW into the Fire Department. Classes always range in size and there is usually someone that will stop in and end up opening up …

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