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is a two hour performance about one woman’s journey to reclaim
her body, sexuality, spirituality, and self esteem after being sexual
assaulted in college. Performed by a diverse cast of women and featuring
photographs taken by her sister during the recovery process, SOARS
uses modern dance, spoken-word, and music to educate the public
about sexual violence and to ease the shame, guilt, and self-blame
that rape victims too often feel with a story of hope and healing.
SOARS has already been performed for thousands of students, professionals,
and victims of violence and uses the visual and performance arts
to create safe, entertaining, and multicultural forums that educate
the public about healing from sexual assault. |
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Using Art to Heal:
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Victims: Friends, Family Members, and Partners of Survivors:
For the last eight years, art therapist Scheherazade Tillet has
photo-documented her sister’s recovery from sexual assault.
Based on her unique expertise, Scheherazade designed this workshop
to help partners, family members, friends deal with the anger, guilt,
and hurt they feel when they learn that their loved one has been
sexually assaulted.
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SPA:
Coping with Vicarious Trauma
This workshop is specifically designed for professionals and students
who work with survivors of sexual assault. Deviating from the traditional
workshop format, we use music, aromatherapy, and expressive therapy
techniques to recreate the serenity and comfort of a day at the
spa. In this multimedia workshop, we will discuss the origins and
effects of VT, and explore how mediation techniques, movement and
art therapy can lessen the effects of vicarious trauma.
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Campus Safety:
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Abroad: Addressing Sexual Assault on Study Abroad Programs
When students study abroad,
they often travel without training in personal safety and an understanding
of cross-cultural attitudes towards sexuality and sexual assault.
Unfortunately, while there is an increased risk of sexual assault
when students go abroad, there also is substantially more underreporting.
As a result, students are less likely to seek help and recover from
sexual trauma. We have created this workshop to help administrators
and students develop comprehensive study abroad sexual assault resources,
insure that students are aware of university protocol and services
for them while they are abroad, identify basic safe practices, and
be able to differentiate between culturally “fitting in”
and being at risk.
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Young Leaders: Working With Students to End Campus Sexual Violence
The workshop, Young Leaders, supports and provides additional
resources to student anti-violence organizations. In this workshop,
by emphasizing the need of diversity and art therapy in anti-violence
programs, we help students who are interested in sexual assault
issues devise their own trainings, recruitment strategies, and community
outreach and campus education programs. There are two versions of
this workshop: 1) for college/university rape crisis counselors,
peer counselors and anti-rape advocates who work with survivors
of sexual assault; 2) for high-school crisis counselors, peer counselors
and anti-violence organizations.
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