Assaults on women and girls take many forms: childhood sexual abuse, sexual harassment, physical abuse, date rape, and other violating intrusions. These abuses rob women in many ways. Often, one of the precious things that is lost is sexuality: sexual discovery, sexual desire, sexual pleasure and sexual intimacy.

This workshop is intended for women whose trauma experience interferes with having a satisfying sexual relationship. We will address issues such as sexual fear and avoidance, flashbacks, dissociation, pain and other blocks. In a safe and respectful environment, survivors of abuse will have an opportunity to give voice to their experience of sexuality as adults, receive accurate information about sex and learn strategies to embrace their sexuality.

Women of all sexual orientations are welcome. While the topic of touch will be explored, no physical touch will be involved in this workshop.

After experiencing trauma, be it a single incident or ongoing abuse, people can experience strong reactions that interfere with their daily lives including flashbacks, nightmares, overwhelming feelings, numbness, anxiety, isolation or avoidance of everyday situations. These reactions can be short-lived. For some people, however, they can persist for years after the trauma.

This workshop is for survivors who have experienced sexual, physical or emotional abuse and continue to have disruptive and recurring thoughts, feelings and behaviors in response. We will explore healthy ways to cope with the manifestations and reactions to traumatic events, providing concrete tools to reduce disruptions in everyday life, with the belief that awareness, understanding and education can equal transformation.

Often we are good at being in tune with the cognitive, emotional, social and physical impacts of trauma. However, it is easier to neglect or discount how trauma has impacted our spirituality. A holistic healing journey includes attention to one's soul self as well. During this session, participants will explore ways in which trauma has affected their spiritual journey. Combining theory, opportunities for reflection, personal sharing, and experience, participants will be introduced to different stages of healing which will help them to identify and reclaim their soul selves.

This workshop is intended for women trauma survivors and will address spiritual safety, remembrance and mourning, and reconnection to one's faith experience.

This workshop grows out of the Sexuality Interrupted workshops for women, and the Sharing the Journey workshops for partners of survivors.

Abuse-related trauma takes a tremendous toll on people and on relationships, and the journey to healing is often long and arduous. Healing creates challenges in couple relationships, and also the potential for a greater and more rewarding depth of connection and intimacy.

This workshop will guide couples in developing a shared understanding of trauma and its impacts, identifying specific relational and sexual challenges in their relationship, developing a plan for beginning to approach sexual concerns, and creating a plan for managing the distress of both partners.

Couples of all genders and sexual orientations are welcome. While the topic of touch will be explored, no physical touch will be involved in this workshop.

Our own childhood experiences have a profound impact on who we become as parents and how we parent our children. For people who were abused or neglected in childhood, parenting can elicit a wide range of reactions, from being terrified of repeating our parents' mistakes to a fierce determination to parent with integrity and protectiveness.

This workshop will provide an opportunity for mothers who are abuse and neglect survivors to reflect on their own experiences of being a child, emotions that get evoked in the process of parenting, and their philosophy and hopes for the mothers they want to be.

The workshop will include presentation, exercises, and time for discussion.

Boundaries keep us safe as individuals, in control as communities and healthy as persons in relationship. For survivors of abuse and trauma, boundaries are often blurred, negated and violated. In this workshop, participants will learn about physical, psychological, emotional and sexual boundaries. As a group, we will explore the connection between boundary violations and trauma and consider how establishing personal boundaries can aid in rebuilding a sense of grounding and control. We will identify tools for clarifying one's own limits and asserting them with others. This workshop is intended for female trauma survivors and will include presentation, exercises and time for discussion.