{"id":410267,"date":"2025-11-28T08:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/410267\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:57:14","slug":"art-workshop-focuses-on-healing-after-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/410267\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Workshop Focuses on Healing After Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Organizers described the gathering as a space for reflection and renewal after a year marked by natural disasters, immigration enforcement actions and social division<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Window Between Worlds, a national nonprofit that uses art for trauma healing, will hold a free virtual event titled \u201cWellness Day: Art in Times of Crisis\u201d on Tuesday, Dec. 2, from 1 to 3 p.m. PST via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour program will feature personal stories of resilience from founder Cathy Salser and youth facilitator Sonia Hsieh Schumacher, drawn from recent in-person \u201cRecovery Pod\u201d workshops supporting wildfire-affected communities.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will take part in a guided art experience called \u201cBeyond the Break: A Kintsugi Journey,\u201d led by Kiyomi Knox, exploring themes of repair and strength through the Japanese practice of repairing broken ceramics with gold.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers described the gathering as a space for reflection and renewal after a year marked by natural disasters, immigration enforcement actions and social division.<\/p>\n<p>A separate 30-minute session from 3 to 3:30 p.m. will showcase the organization\u2019s facilitator training programs, with scholarships available for individuals and groups serving fire-impacted areas.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is free and open to the public. The nonprofit, which reports serving more than 142,000 participants in 2024, uses art-based workshops to support survivors of trauma, including domestic violence and disaster recovery.<\/p>\n<p>To register, go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/awbw.org\/a-year-of-healing-and-rebuilding-together-registration\/?blm_aid=30263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/awbw.org\/a-year-of-healing-and-rebuilding-together-registration\/?blm_aid=30263<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organizers described the gathering as a space for reflection and renewal after a year marked by natural disasters,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":410268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-410267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115626498648518236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}