WORKSHOPS
We organise series of thematic workshops that provide psychological support to displaced Ukrainian people. They are based on community psychology principles and a variety of somatic and creative methods. During their six sessions we jointly explore the ways of coping with stress, adapting to new environments and exploring ourselves and the city. We do it through talking, drawing, dancing, playing games, going on walks and organising self-support groups that continue to meet long after the end of the course.
Our workshops and other activities are always free.
Finding your way in a new country can be a profound challenge. We want to support you as you navigate this terrain. Our thematic gatherings offer a safe and caring space to reconnect with yourself, remember your inner strength and value, explore ways to cope with stress, nurture motivation, and form meaningful, inspiring connections with others.
How to join
The next group will gather from 11 March till 15 April.
in the Central Library of the Hague
and will work with these themes:
1. Sources of support. Awareness of one's own identity, values, and sources of support.
2. Mindfulness. The art of pausing between stimulus and response.
3. Trauma and the path to wholeness. How healed trauma can become a resource.
4. Awarness of your own body as a compass for healing.
5. Somatic art therapy. Self expression as a way to connect to yoursrelf.
6. A look into the future. Moving towards things that resonate with you most.
Dates of the sessions:
Wednesday, 11 March, 17:30-20:30
Wednesday, 18 March 17:30-20:30
Wednesday, 25 March 17:30-20:30
Wednesday, 1 April 17:30-20:30
Wednesday, 8 April 17:30-20:30
Wednesday, 15 April 17:30-20:30
If you would like to join us please register vis the link below.
We will be very happy to meet you :)
REGISTRATION
In the meantime you can join our Meet Ups that happen a few times in month.
See them here and come along.
How to give these workshops
The workshops are currently given in the Netherlands and Lithuania, but we hope that this method can also be used by organisations and initiatives in other countries.
To share it with those who can be interested, like social workers, adult educators, creative professionals, community organisations, volunteers and other people working with displaced people from Ukraine and other countries we have put together the traning manual that can help you to give this course in your city, build a new supporting training on its basis or just use some bits and pieces that might be helpful in your work.
You can find there the theoretical framework that informed the project, description of different tools that we use, as well as the discussion of non-formal educational methods and how they can be adapted to specific cultural and geographical contexts.
You can find there a detailed description of 8 different sessions that can form this traning, as well as presentations, handout materials and self-evaluation forms.
WORKSHOP MANUAL (UKR)
WORKSHOP MANUAL (ENG)
WORKSHOP MANUAL (NLD)
WORKSHOP MANUAL (LTU)
WORKSHOP MATERIALS
All our materials are free to use and can be easily adapted by adult educators working with displaced people from war zones.
Openly sharing this work, we kindly ask you to mention Wayfinding project as a source of information and inspiration, if you use this manual.
We will also be happy to be in touch about its application in different countries, organisations and initiatives, to see how helpful it can be to others.
You can always contact us via email info@thickpresent.com
The project was initialy developed in 2023 by the Stichting Thich Present (NL), FENAN Consulting (NL) and Non-formal learning club “WE”/Neformalaus mokymosi klubas "MES" (LT) in the framework of Erasmus Plus program 2022-2-NL01-KA210-ADU-000094886. Organisations continue it independently.