• “This training has been very eye opening and has given me so much confidence to further help others in more ways than I ever could have imagined.”

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Facilitator Trainings

Enhancing Healing Through Art

Attend our virtual two-day training to join a collaborative community of 700+ art workshop facilitators. This immersive experience gives you an opportunity to learn alongside others serving trauma survivors. No artistic experience needed.

With our two-day trauma-informed virtual training, you will gain access to an expanding curriculum of 600+ trauma-informed art workshops, peer-to-peer and staff support, and ongoing professional development opportunities to strengthen your facilitation and community leadership skills.

  REGISTER TODAY  

We believe creating art is a form of communication not constrained by language or skill that builds safety, resilience, trust, and hope and creates lasting change. A Window Between Worlds’ transformative healing arts program is a growing resource for advocates, teachers, social workers, case managers, therapists, and community organizers dedicated to transforming the trauma that sits in our bodies, relationships, communities, and systems.
NEXT TRAINING: MARCH 24-25, 9AM-4:30PM PT

Can’t make March? Sign up here to be notified when registration opens for our June 23-24 training.

Fee: $1,500, includes:
• Two-day live virtual training • Access to our 600+ workshop curriculum •
• Ongoing enrichment workshops throughout the year •
• Certification as a Windows Facilitator •
See more details on full benefits below.

Learn more about partial scholarships and Social Justice Fellowships here.
Looking for a less expensive alternative? Check out our On-Demand Training Course here.

“The information was presented in a clear and concise manner with great energy, love, and permission. I felt completely myself and that allowed me to stay present.”

 

2020 Windows Facilitator Training Attendee, The Vermont Network Against Domestic & Sexual Violence

What you’ll experience at our two-day facilitator training:

  • •  Presentations by licensed clinicians with discussions on trauma-informed care, intersectionality, cultural responsiveness, & oppression as a form of trauma
  • • Six hands-on art workshops, giving you the opportunity to experience healing through creative expression as a participant
  • • Space to vision new ways art can serve to address individual, community, and/or national trauma, inviting change from the cellular to the systemic
  • • A deeper understanding of the value of the creative process, how to build safety and connection with your participants, and the practice of listening
  • • Tips for facilitating with different age groups, including working with families
  • • Ideas for using low-barrier art supplies
  • • Familiarizing yourself with the AWBW model and resources available to you
“As an Executive Director, I’ve witnessed firsthand the impact that AWBW has on our clients who’ve experienced domestic violence and homelessness, my staff, and our programs as a whole. Providing a Window of Time through creative expression gives survivors an opportunity to explore their emotions while building safety and trust with staff.
Art also allows us to better communicate our clients’ experiences, healing, and resilience to our community supporters. The programs at AWBW truly embody the spirit of Art Heals Trauma.”

 

Elizabeth Eastlund, Executive Director of Rainbow Services, AWBW partner since 2005, San Pedro, California

Benefits of joining our network of Windows Facilitators:

  • • Trauma-informed training in strengths-based facilitation tools to use with clients addressing themes such as safety, communication, healthy boundaries, agency, empowerment, resilience, self-regulation and more
  • • Access to our growing curriculum of over 600 therapeutic art workshops for use with a variety of ages and communities
  • • Discounts on art supplies
  • • Opportunities to learn and innovate on best practices in collaboration with peers across the country and abroad working with a variety of populations and healing modalities
  • • Invitations to attend free professional development trainings throughout the year on topics including vicarious trauma, self-care, anti-racism, and more
For further benefits and details, click here
By joining our network of Windows Facilitators using art as a tool for empowerment and transformation in their healing and advocacy work, you will help co-create a collective resource that creates lasting change.

  JOIN BY REGISTERING FOR OUR MARCH TRAINING  

Hear from Windows Facilitator and AWBW Board Chair, Stacia Kato, about the impact attending one of our trainings had in her life:

Want to hear more?

Questions? Email trainings@awbw.org