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Teta's Workshops
Massachusetts
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
This story is from a workshop with survivors of violence who are isolated from family and friends during this pandemic. I chose this workshop to teach the art of journaling and its use as a meditative practice. One participant shared “I wasn't very eager to…
Proud Mama Bears
California
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Advocacy (legislation, voter mobilization, etc.)
  • Community Engagement
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Founder of Proud Mama Bears and AWBW Board Chair, Stacia Kato. In this moving video celebrating Pride Month, Stacia shares about using her training as a Windows Facilitator in her journey as the mothe…
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…
Art Works Collective
Oklahoma
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
I am a case manager working with clients who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. This particular group of women live together in a group home and are fairly independent. They hold jobs of varying levels of responsibility, are out in the community…
Students Turn 4 Greatness
California
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
One day we were creating masks as part of the “Revealing Power and Beauty” workshop. As usual, everyone was fairly quiet as they worked. Suddenly, in the middle of the workshop, Terry thrust her mask down and began crying. She said, “I hate this.” She reach…
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…
YWCA - San Gabriel Valley
California
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence
Ceirra and Melissa are AWBW facilitators who work in the WINGS (Women in Need Growing Strong) Domestic Violence Program at YWCA San Gabriel Valley. They provide educational support groups in both emergency and transitional shelter settings, as well as through …
A Greater Hope
CA
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  This was my own personal journey on Thanksgiving Day. When I first was introduced to Nikki Crow's project, Fix Your Side of the Feather, during the AWBW Durational Art Symposium I was moved to tears. I can remember my maternal grandmother, who was th…
Los Angeles Unified School District
California
  • Schools & Universities
I facilitated a monthly staff self-care workshop which consisted of the "Heart and Soul Self-Care Coupons" art workshop. This year has been so stressful at my school because we have many students at our school with severe behavior problems. Several teachers…
Little Tokoyo Service Center
California
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Domestic Violence
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Vivian Lee, the Director of Counseling Programs at Little Tokyo Service Center. A Windows Facilitator since 2009, Vivian shares the story of how a woman used creativity to process surviving domestic v…
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 …
Swain Recovery Center
North Carolina
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
  • Substance Abuse Recovery
Lauren is an AWBW facilitator at Swain Recovery Center, a residential treatment program for substance use and mental health. “Art has been a very helpful tool in building relationships between myself and clients, clients and other staff members, and the client…
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…
University of Missouri – Kansas City
Missouri
  • Facilitator Spotlights
  • Schools & Universities
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Arzie Umali, MPA, who is the Senior Assistant Director of the Women's Center at University of Missouri - Kansas City. As students return to school, it is essential to acknowledge the value of self-…
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…
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…
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 …
The Willow Domestic Violence Center
Kansas
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
  • Domestic Violence
  • Self-Care & Personal Growth
We have a survivor at our shelter that has really been through so much. She has been with us for about 3 months and has lost her house to a fire, her job due to her abuser, had her children in her sister's care and other family issues. Through it all she ha…
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 …
Healing Through Art
California
  • Domestic Violence
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…
Safe Passage, Inc.
Indiana
Safe Passage, Inc.
Indiana
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 apar…
Art Works Collective
Oklahoma
Art Works Collective
Oklahoma
I am a case manager working with clients who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. This particular group of women live together in a group home and are fairly independent. They hold jobs of varying levels of responsibility, are out in the…
Arise Daughter
Florida
Arise Daughter
Florida
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 feelin…
Silent No Longer Tennessee
Tennessee
Silent No Longer Tennessee
Tennessee
I work with adult survivors of sexual assault and use various forms of art to help them process their trauma and tell their stories. Several of my clients said they wanted to do a project for the 5th anniversary of the #metoo hashtag. I decided to do…
United American Indian Involvement (UAII)
California
United American Indian Involvement (UAII)
California
In this "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video, Nikki Crow, a Prevention and Aftercare Care Coordinator at United American Indian Involvement (UAII), shares how the AWBW art workshop "Journey Footprints" honors our resilience and helped one of…
Private Practice
Mexico
Private Practice
Mexico
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 fo…
Norina Murphy-Verduzco & Associates
California
Norina Murphy-Verduzco & Associates
California
I felt compelled to share this story because the impact was so big for this client that she ended up creating an extension of this workshop on her own that I really liked and wanted to share. My client is a 28-year-old female who currently resides…
Safe Passage, Inc.
Indiana
Safe Passage, Inc.
Indiana
Until recently our agency has been using AWBW curriculum primarily in one-on-one settings with clients. Recently, I was able to get an adult art workshop group (with daycare provided) off the ground. Our first group had three female participants whos…
Los Angeles Unified School District
California
Los Angeles Unified School District
California
I facilitated a monthly staff self-care workshop which consisted of the "Heart and Soul Self-Care Coupons" art workshop. This year has been so stressful at my school because we have many students at our school with severe behavior problems. Severa…
Desert Sanctuary Inc/Haley House
California
Desert Sanctuary Inc/Haley House
California
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 descri…
Tides of Change
Oregon
Tides of Change
Oregon
These photos are of art that a survivor created during the workshop Befriending Your Feelings. This woman, in her fifties, has complex trauma beginning in early childhood and continuing into adulthood. She has shared experiences of neglect and child …
Just Detention International & SC Department of Corrections
South Carolina
Just Detention International & SC Department of Corrections
South Carolina
In 2020, AWBW founder Cathy Salser and our program partner Just Detention International (JDI) began a collaboration with incarcerated women and staff at two prisons in South Carolina on a project called #PrisonersToo — using art as a way to address t…
Healing Through Art
California
Healing Through Art
California
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 …
Jewish Family Service
California
Jewish Family Service
California
This client is a single mother of two children. She is from Mexico, came to this country seven years ago, and is undocumented. She experienced verbal, physical, and emotional abuse with her boyfriend of two years.   She is a hard-working woman who…
Umbrella
Vermont
Umbrella
Vermont
The woman I was supporting is a 56-year-old survivor of child sexual abuse that lasted a decade. Her daughter had also been sexually assaulted by the same offender. She holds a lot of guilt and shame in her heart and has difficulties forgiving her…
YWCA Greater Lafayette
Indiana
YWCA Greater Lafayette
Indiana
This weekend, starting Friday night after our group workshop, I started making long-overdue decisions to stand up for myself and close some doors that weren't serving me any more (ones that I was still engaging in due to insecurity). I am awed by …
PAVE - People Against A Violent Environment
Wisconsin
PAVE - People Against A Violent Environment
Wisconsin
Since it was snowing outside at the time, the group thought it would be neat to do this as a "snowflakes of thanks" activity. So we adapted on the spot and changed out supplies to do snowflakes. We all had fun with it and the kids were really exci…
Helping Hands Resource Center
California
Helping Hands Resource Center
California
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. Her…
Little Tokoyo Service Center
California
Little Tokoyo Service Center
California
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Vivian Lee, the Director of Counseling Programs at Little Tokyo Service Center. A Windows Facilitator since 2009, Vivian shares the story of how a woman used creativity to process surviving …
Proud Mama Bears
California
Proud Mama Bears
California
This "Uplifting Voices: Facilitator Stories" video features Founder of Proud Mama Bears and AWBW Board Chair, Stacia Kato. In this moving video celebrating Pride Month, Stacia shares about using her training as a Windows Facilitator in her journey as…

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