Empowering the Voice of Survivors

EMPOWER™ Technique

Embrace • Motivated • Peaceful • Open • Wise • Expressive • Recognized

The EMPOWER™ Technique offers peer support using a combination of guided meditation, visual journaling, movement, music and energy processing for survivors who feel as though their voice was silenced.

Grounded in holistic practices, this full day intensive that will kick off your healing journey. You will identify, release and reframe old trauma so you can…

• Embrace your past.
  Embracing our past, truly understanding what we gained from our past traumas, the decisions we made in that moment and how they served us leads us closer to knowing who we are at a deeper level and self-confidence.

• Grant yourself Motivation to accomplish your big goals by practicing unconditional self-love.
  Being Motivated to accomplish anything, whether it’s being a better person or building the next major corporation, takes a level of commitment to ourselves that can only be carried out by one who loves themselves unconditionally.

• Feel Peaceful by accepting the difficult situations you’ve lived through.
  Feeling Peaceful requires letting go of anger and resentment – feeling the deep peace that comes with acknowledgement and acceptance of those difficult situations we’ve lived through.

• Practice Open communication in relationships.
  Open communication in all relationships requires a level of trust and self-acceptance that includes embracing the trauma you experienced.

• Seek Wisdom from a deeper knowledge of self.
  Wisdom stems from a deep knowledge and understanding of self. From deep wisdom comes confidence and trust in your decision making. It also brings a deeper level of trust in your own intuition leading to a higher level of trust in others.

• Be Expressive – You deserve to be heard.
  Being Expressive means having the confidence to express yourself in any way you choose. Speaking up for yourself in close relationships, business endeavors or using your creative talents like music, dance, art or public speaking to share your message are all expression of ourselves.

• Recognize your needs and desires – We can’t feel seen and heard by others if we don’t see and hear ourselves.
  Being Recognized, an expression of approval, is one of the most desired objectives/dreams of sexual assault survivors is feeling seen and heard.

The EMPOWER™ Technique is offered as a kickoff to the from Wounds to Wisdom mentoring program. It is also used in the full day workshops and as a launch for the Expressive Arts Retreats.