Level 1 Trauma

Feb 18 2014

Partnering with the Triumph Foundation to bring Creative Healing Workshops to their Members

Artists for Trauma is pleased to begin partnering with the Triumph Foundation to bring healing through art workshops to their members around Southern California. Our first workshops launch this month with informal painting workshops in Santa Barbara and Northridge! Our workshop in Santa Barbara is in partnership...

Dec 19 2013

Thank You to Girl Scout Troop #2168 for their Art Supply Drive

[slideshow_deploy id='1471'] Artists for Trauma is very grateful to the Junior Girl Scouts Troop # 2168 of Tustin, California! These young ladies organized an art supply drive to benefit the many military and civilian Student Artists in the Artists for Trauma programs. On Saturday, December 14, 2013,...

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Dec 17 2013

Artists for Trauma at “The Gift of Public Art” event

Artists for Trauma was honoured to participate as a member of “the Village” with Modern Multiples this past weekend in the “Gift of Public Art” event in Cypress Village, Los Angeles. The first young artists from the Inkubator Art Program showcased their artwork alongside art installations...

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Dec 10 2013

My Fit Foods and Miss Nutrition for Artists for Trauma at Next Step Fitness

Our last session for 2013 with Next Step Fitness was educational and fun! AFT teamed with My Fit Foods and “Miss Nutrition” Jolanta Sierra to guide a group session focused on teaching members about healthy and delicious eating and how what we feed our bodies, mind...

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Oct 10 2013

Artists for Trauma paints with Next Step Fitness

We were so excited to paint together with Next Step Fitness members last week! It was the first time we brought more of a hands-on creative approach to their members, and it was an incredible experience. Laura Sharpe, founder of Artists for Trauma, demonstrated her...

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Sep 03 2013

Sacred steps…

“Sacred Steps” -- a documentary filmed in high definition and photographed in stunning, character-revealing digital shots -- reveals the beauty of the symbiotic state of growth and tenacity between humans and nature...

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Jul 26 2013

The Climb…

7/4/2013 Wow! 5 years post tragic helicopter crash…Who would have ever thought? …that I would be able to share a sacred mother/daughter journey with my teenage daughter and successfully climb the Andes mountain, Yuanapicchu, in sacred Machu Picchu, Peru? At the top of the mountain I could not hold...

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Jul 24 2013

Movies and Meditation with NextStep Fitness

Artists for Trauma and Next Step Fitness partnered again at their most recent Movie Night on Thursday the 18th of July to screen the documentary, “The Dhamma Brothers”. The film was followed by a short meditation session led by AFT Volunteer Artist Etan Boritzer. NextStep members shared...

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Jul 10 2013

Choose to be a positive solution…

It seems that every morning, we wake up and see more and more evidence of trauma around us. A plane crash in San Francisco, a police shooting in LA, a train explosion in Canada…it demonstrates so vividly how trauma can happen to anyone and anyone we...

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Jun 11 2013

Holding you in our thoughts…

It is Sunday evening, and I’m on a mother/daughter retreat far away from home, Los Angeles, and the United States. From far away in another country, we learn of another act of unacceptable violence and the trauma it brings to the lives of the innocent. I...

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