Wellness
All the programs are holistically based, focus on long term healing and are available for Domestic Violence Survivors.
Please contact us for further information
Please contact us for further information
Continuous Program
Women’s Circle
Women’s Circle is a regular gathering – either once or twice a month for a 5 hour session.
Each gathering is open to any woman or support worker in the field affected by domestic violence.
Women’s Circle is a space that is created by the women that attend the gathering as peers, in a consciously created environment.
It is supported by two experienced Women's Circle facilitators who are present until the peer group is able to support itself.
Each gathering is open to any woman or support worker in the field affected by domestic violence.
Women’s Circle is a space that is created by the women that attend the gathering as peers, in a consciously created environment.
It is supported by two experienced Women's Circle facilitators who are present until the peer group is able to support itself.
Ten Week Programs
Changing lives: The Enneagram
This is a ten week program suitable for DV survivors, and support providers in the field, as well as social workers, Psychologists etc., or anyone working with those who have experienced DV. The program offers DV survivors and any connected parties the psychology of the Enneagram of personality. It brings insight into people’s individual unconscious motivations and their unconscious mental, and emotional patterns. It also provides the key to each individual journey to support the creation of a more healthy and integrated life.
Living beyond Domestic Violence
This program focuses on education and developing self-managed support strategies for those affected by these abusive experiences. Recovery from Domestic and Family Violence sometimes feels overwhelming and confusing. Drawing upon participant’s self-discovery and self-awareness, we will collaboratively assist in the building of individual recovery plans incorporating themes of safety, stability, grieving, self re-connection and social integration. The foundational values of this program are moving forward and rediscovering hope.
Growing a Wellness Community
This program meets for one day a week (7 hours duration) for 10 weeks.
The Wellness garden and Wellness expressive arts program are brought together to grow a wellness community.
The program is twofold: It provides skills and education on reconnecting with the healing properties of nature and learning how to grow organic food. Education and hands on growing organic vegetables encourages healthy habits, healthy eating, and wellness of body and it provides skills and education through expressive arts and holistic learning to reconnect with the inner worlds of each participant so they become more aware of their own inner nature. As a result, they become more self empowered, encouraging wellness of mind, body, and spirit.
The Wellness garden and Wellness expressive arts program are brought together to grow a wellness community.
The program is twofold: It provides skills and education on reconnecting with the healing properties of nature and learning how to grow organic food. Education and hands on growing organic vegetables encourages healthy habits, healthy eating, and wellness of body and it provides skills and education through expressive arts and holistic learning to reconnect with the inner worlds of each participant so they become more aware of their own inner nature. As a result, they become more self empowered, encouraging wellness of mind, body, and spirit.
Wellness Garden Program
This program meets one morning or afternoon one day a week for ten weeks. This program reconnects participants with nature. Evidence shows that working with the earth brings better mental, emotional, and physical health. This gentle 10 week program teaches how to design and build healthy organic vegetable gardens. The group design a garden, prepare the soil and beds, plant seeds and seedlings, tend to the plants, and harvest the yield. They work with wellness of body, movement, and the earth.
Wellness Expressive Arts Program
This program meets one morning or afternoon one day a week for ten weeks and uses the garden as a metaphor for the inner experience. Evidence indicates that expressive arts can heal without re-entering into the vortex of trauma. They outline their individual visions for their future and a common vision for the group. Then through Expressive Arts, they work through the blockages and unconscious patterns, altering their perceptions positively to make their individual visions possible, and rebuild their "inner" gardens, with the support of the facilitators and their fellow participants.
Weekend Programs
Introduction to The Enneagram - weekend intensive
This is a two and a half day weekend retreat, starting on a Friday evening, ending on a Sunday afternoon. It can be residential or non-residential. This retreat offers an introduction into the Enneagram of Personality. Taught in the narrative tradition, participants learn that there are nine different views of the world, nine very different motivations, and nine very different keys to support a healthier, happier lifestyle for each of the nine types.
Soul Collage
Soul collage is a trademarked expressive arts form that provides healing without re-traumatising the participant. It offers the opportunity to work with unconscious patterns in a non threatening manner and offers a tool that can be used for personal guidance. This is a one or two day workshop.
Enneagram and Soul Collage and Expressive Arts
This is a two and a half day weekend retreat, starting on a Friday evening, ending on a Sunday afternoon. It can be residential or non-residential. This combined program brings together the Enneagram with Soul Collage, offering a gentle manner to enter into unconscious habitual patterns and support finding solutions.
1) The Enneagram is a psycho-spiritual system which offers a deeper understanding into individual habitual patterns.
2) Soul Collage is an expressive arts program that uses a particular format for healing and reintegration.
3) The combination of Enneagram knowledge and therapeutic creativity offers healing without adding further trauma.
1) The Enneagram is a psycho-spiritual system which offers a deeper understanding into individual habitual patterns.
2) Soul Collage is an expressive arts program that uses a particular format for healing and reintegration.
3) The combination of Enneagram knowledge and therapeutic creativity offers healing without adding further trauma.
Expressive Arts Retreat
This is a two and a half day weekend retreat, starting on a Friday evening, ending on a Sunday afternoon. It can be residential or non-residential. Through various different techniques, participants discover a lot about their inner world, unconscious thought patterns, and find healing through drawing, art, and creativity, without the need to re-enter into any previous trauma. Healing happens.
Non Violent Communication
This is a two and a half day weekend retreat, starting on a Friday evening, ending on a Sunday afternoon. It is offered as a residential or non-residential retreat. It is suitable for DV survivors, service providers in the field, as well as social workers, Psychologists etc.
NVC is a recognised language used to minimise violence through the use of specific language. It requires a facilitator trained in the field. This program is suitable for DV survivors and educators in the field, as well as social workers, Psychologists etc.
This retreat is not limited to particular numbers.
NVC is a recognised language used to minimise violence through the use of specific language. It requires a facilitator trained in the field. This program is suitable for DV survivors and educators in the field, as well as social workers, Psychologists etc.
This retreat is not limited to particular numbers.
Guided Drawing
This is a two and a half day weekend retreat, starting on Friday night, ending on Sunday afternoon. Guided drawing works through haptic perception, the language of the hands. Through the intuitive connection with the body, guided drawing helps to unlock unconscious trauma and setbacks safely, and assists with the process of feelings, felt sensations, allowing healing and healthy integration. Between 8 - 12 participants.
"Many Hands" and "Moving One Step Forward" Workshops
This is a three day retreat — a long weekend.
It takes many hands to make a community and we all need to keep moving forward, one step at a time. The workshops either focus on the individual’s foot or hand to make an art piece that represents connection and integration.
These workshops are 3 days in length, for 4-10 participants.
It takes many hands to make a community and we all need to keep moving forward, one step at a time. The workshops either focus on the individual’s foot or hand to make an art piece that represents connection and integration.
These workshops are 3 days in length, for 4-10 participants.
Body Language Project
This Art Workshop gives participants the opportunity to use art as an outlet to express what they feel inside. The use of plaster torsos, made by the participants from moulds and plaster bandages, helps them create an external expression of their personal journey in a way that is emotional, honest and often thought provoking. Each artwork is unique, as each person is unique. It gives the individual a process whereby they can develop and expand on an initial theme through to its completion, enabling them to experience a sense of identity and ownership expressing what they feel on the inside, on the outside of their Art torso. The participants also learn vital skills such as team work, compassion for others, inner strength and confidence. Through art they find their voice. This is a 4 day program specifically designed for DV survivors, one day a week for 4 weeks and is available for 4-10 participants. This program is facilitated by the designer of the program. It has proven to be a very provocative and healing workshop for DV survivors.
"Words of Affirmation" Project
2 half days or one full day for up to 12 participants. 4 day program, one day a week for 4 weeks and is available for 4-10 participants. This Art Workshop guides participants through a process where they produce a positive inspirational artwork on canvas then sketch and paint an inspirational word that is relevant to them. The participants leave the workshop with a completed Artwork that can serve as a positive daily affirmation. Sometimes we are surrounded by negativity and aggressive words constantly putting us down. This workshop explores positive affirmation and provides each participant with something they can see everyday to inspire and lift their spirits using art as a positive motivator. In this workshop they are also taught skills in graffiti, creative writing, graphics and different paint effects. The end result enables them to experience a sense of identity, ownership and pride in their piece of word art. This program is facilitated by the designer of the program. It has proven to be a very provocative and healing workshop for DV survivors.
Mural Workshop
This is a weekend workshop with DV survivors. Once a suitable space is found, (hopefully a public space so the community can witness Kath’s Gift first hand) a facilitator will guide a group to paint a beautiful mural.
Gathering, Exhibition and Integration Open Day
This is an Open Day for all survivors and their loved ones.
Let's celebrate the work that has been done to bring healing to DV survivors at a grass roots level over the year.
Special works, gardens, creative pieces, and expressive arts will be displayed for people in the community to come together and celebrate the healing that has emerged over the 4, 6, or 12 month period. Let's celebrate our survivors.
Let's celebrate the work that has been done to bring healing to DV survivors at a grass roots level over the year.
Special works, gardens, creative pieces, and expressive arts will be displayed for people in the community to come together and celebrate the healing that has emerged over the 4, 6, or 12 month period. Let's celebrate our survivors.
Trainings
Women’s Circle Training
We believe that within 24 months, we will have DV survivors keen to take the circle work into their own communities, or further afield in rural areas in the Wide Bay location. We would like to offer a 4 day training to ensure that they have a solid platform and supervision as they step out into the greater community.
Holding Space Retreat
The term used today, “Holding Space” is a relatively new language emerging about 5 years ago, though the idea comes from very old contemplative practice. The most prominent person in the field today is happy to come to Australia to offer her services at a community rate for DV survivors, educators, and people working in the DV sector. It is a deep, transformative four day retreat, both residential and non-residential. This retreat could be offered every 2 years and available for anyone involved in the DV community, survivor or support.
We believe that within 24 months, we will have DV survivors keen to take the circle work into their own communities, or further afield in rural areas in the Wide Bay location. We would like to offer a 4 day training to ensure that they have a solid platform and supervision as they step out into the greater community.
Holding Space Retreat
The term used today, “Holding Space” is a relatively new language emerging about 5 years ago, though the idea comes from very old contemplative practice. The most prominent person in the field today is happy to come to Australia to offer her services at a community rate for DV survivors, educators, and people working in the DV sector. It is a deep, transformative four day retreat, both residential and non-residential. This retreat could be offered every 2 years and available for anyone involved in the DV community, survivor or support.