Mental Health Workshops
Trauma Healing
After consulting with the widows regarding new programming for 2021, they emphasized that mental health was a priority for them. In response, we organized a series of programs including group and individual counseling which would be supplemented by mental health workshops. One of our first workshops was in collaboration with the organization Women in the Window who uses inductive Bible studies and stories about women in the Bible to enable spiritual formation and renewal for women leaders. This workshop focused on trauma healing and consisted of three days of prayer, group activities, and reflection. At the end of the workshop many of the widows spoke about how the spiritual support, group prayer, and reading of prayer together helped them grapple with some of the challenges they have faced, and offered them encouragement for the future. In particular, some widows noted that they felt as though a burden had been lifted off of their shoulders and they felt empowered to return to their families and address certain familial tensions.
