Our focus and goals
Focus
- Empowering mind-body wellbeing as an answer to the needs and ramifications of stress and trauma caused by overwhelming life events.
- Providing training and therapy in groups combining cutting-edge approaches of body-oriented psychotherapy to deal with stress and trauma.
- Using methods which can be learned for application in a relatively short time and aid in coping with conditions of stress while contributing to the prevention of traumatic reactions to overwhelming situations in the future.
- Restoring resilience.
Goals
- To aid various underserved groups of people who have been exposed to one time or prolonged conditions of stress or to overwhelming traumatic events.
- To train and advise professionals who treat traumatized populations.
- To support caregivers in the front lines some of whom suffer from secondary (or vicarious) trauma, a problem that commonly goes unrecognized and untreated.
- To raise the level of awareness of the effectiveness of the mind-body treatment methods in coping with stress and trauma and the advantage of using the body.
- To promote the prevention of traumatic reactions and the building of resiliency for people at risk.