Workshops for Populations Coping with Direct and Indirect War Trauma

We are now launching specialized on-site workshops at our Social-Environmental Logistics Center to support the rehabilitation and recovery of war-affected populations. TRASHFORMATION is a series of six-session workshops where participants, coping with direct and indirect war trauma, create furniture that will be donated to communities and educational centers located in regions undergoing rehabilitation and recovery. The program uses upcycled materials rescued from landfills and combines professional facilitation with collaborative group work to promote healing and community building. Built on core values that maximize impact: Personal Empowerment: Participants regain dignity and self-worth through meaningful creation, transforming from feeling like a “burden” to becoming valued contributors. Essential Life Skills: Developing teamwork, resilience, focus, problem-solving, creativity, project management, and emotional processing through therapeutic making. Environmental Impact: Rescuing materials from landfills and giving them a new purpose. Community Building: All creations are donated to local organizations, amplifying participants' sense of contribution and social connection. Multi-impact Transformation: One program that simultaneously heals individuals, builds skills, protects the environment, and strengthens communities. The workshops transform working materials, regardless of their condition, into living, relevant, and useful resources. We offer a framework that allows the participants to try, dare, fail, get confused, and feel. The workshop is designed to provide an experimental, practical, and creative space for participants dealing with direct and indirect trauma and who are high-functioning. The workshop aims to combine hands-on work with a personal-group process, utilizing the source materials located in the logistics center in a manner that respects the place, the participants, and the materials. This is a safe place to engage both hands and mind, to enjoy what happens, and to build something both outside and inside. Program structure: 6 sessions per cycle, 8-10 participants per group Cost: $9,000 per program cycle Target populations: Individuals with direct and indirect war trauma, Nova festival survivors