Community Feedback

Thank you all so much for taking the time to answer and provide such wonderful and amazing ideas! Much of it doesn't have to be community organised so I encourage you to please post in our forum to connect with others that are interested in the same topics. I also need some more details to some of your answers please. So please see below for responses to all our answers to this question from our survey:

Art fundraiser

What a great idea! After the success of the one we had last year it's definitely worth repeating. Who would like to volunteer to organise and manage this?

Stabilizing workshops

Our Somatic Experiencing talks from Lia (SE therapist and community advisor offer so many exercises for stabilisation. We will be repeating the talks this year so please attend.

Personal finances and budgeting

This is on our list for this year but we are having trouble finding experts for this topic. Can anyone help to find the best experts for this topic?

More socials

Yes yes yes! And you don’t have to wait for a community organised social. Let’s grab coffee before or after an event. Or feel free to post in our forum. Or if you want to organise something just write me and I can announce to the community by email as well.

mindful eating, deep self care, how to mindfully setup your life (value analysis), book exchange, compassion and grieving together events (like the one recently organized)

There are many girls in our community that are knowledgeable about mindful eating. Who would like to discuss this topic and share their knowledge with us?

Please join our self care circles to experience deep and focused self care.

Value analysis- this was recently presented in our Somatic Experiencing talk with Lia. Please join the ones happening again this year.

Book exchange - please post your wishes in the forum and see who else would like to join

Compassion and grieving together - Yes this is a beautiful idea. If you would like to have a similar event soon, please write me to let me know.

Everything you do is awesome

Thank you 🙏🏽

style and make up, career coaching

Unfortunately our funding does not allow for events that are only for personal benefit. If you had another career focused topic in mind, please let me know. Colleen also posted about a career goals workshop in the forum. Style and make up workshop is coming up again this year! This one is a for personal benefit and it also is something that has immense value from doing it together as group. We lift each other up, we nurture our bonds and have great fun together.

Would love to see the creative motivation circle return :)

More social get togethers

Would you like to facilitate the creative motivation circle? Please let me know 🙏🏽 We need a facilitator to start them again.

Yes to more socials!

Community concert #2 ;)

Sure! What would you like to do and when? Please let me know 🙏🏽

Any bring your kids events? Prayer circles?

Please send me more details about what what kind of events and circles you are thinking of

Trauma acupuncture

Unfortunately our funding does not allow for events that are only for personal benefit. Sorry.

I would love it, if we could meet socially in the city for a coffee, tea, dinner or do a playful activity together, like bowling or trampoline etc. If the weather is nice, a picnic at the isar, playing volley or frisbee, something like that. I usually avoid social gatherings with friends, because in some weird way i do not feel safe. But i do feel safe when i am with you. I think this kind of experiences would expose me slowly to having fun and being safe in the "real" world.

Or anything that has to do with playfulness, as we discussed in the somatic therapy.

Yes yes yes! Even a fun time in a playground would be great. Please post in our forum for any activity or get together and I’ll make sure everyone in the community sees it and can join.

Art therapy sessions are amazing

Yes they are. The last one we had together was powerful!

More outdoor events, nature Walks or easy hikes. One idea I had was to make a trip to the bergtierpark or Wildpark to have a day to be in nature and around animals, but I don’t know that that falls into the categories of what we can fund.

I would also love to learn more somatic exercises and techniques to help heal trauma.

We are able to cover the transport costs so this shouldn’t be an obstacle. Love the idea of spending more time in nature. Please post in the nature walks group.

We will repeating the Somatic Experiencing talks this year. We learnt so many incredible exercises. So it deserves a repeat!

Yoga workshops

Yes! Stay tuned for more workshops coming this year.

I miss the trauma sensitive Yoga a lot, and still vote for the "Tiergestützte Therapie" with horses ;) - also I noticed in times of my long sinusitis episodes I would have loved to have some online events where you could still stay connected when you are unable to physically attend anything as this is when I need the support the most

More yoga coming this year. What type of online events would you like to have? Unfortunately our funding does not allow for events that are only for personal benefit. We checked about the horse-riding therapy and they said it wouldn’t be possible. Sorry.

I just want to get to know/experience more different meetings.

Can’t wait for you to experience more of it.

You already know how excited I would for a

trauma informed finance workshop :)

Can you please help us find an expert for this?

Breath work events

Yes! Stay tuned for more workshops coming this year.

Some excursions

Can you please provide more details?

Styling Event, how to manage finances (including investing), cooking classes

All in planning for this year. Can you help us find an expert for the finance topic?

Confidence / self defense / excursions/ hikes

Confidence is one of the topics covered by our Somatic Experiencing talks. Please attend them this year.

The Frauen Notruf organises self defence classes. Or could you help us find a trauma informed teacher for us!

Hikes are coming up this year. What type of excursions would you like?

Maybe a book circle

Please post in the forum to see who else is interested.

Yoga classes or some fitness classes

Definitely a yes for yoga. But unfortunately fitness cannot be covered by our community funding (SHZ rules don’t allow funding for events only for personal benefit)

Topics;

-Dealing with anxiety and trust issues

-Setting boundaries

-How to better behave in a situation where you feel insecure

- picking up yourself after a breaking experience

Events;

Trauma / mindfulness dance

Dealing with Trauma Workshops

All the topics are discussed in our support group meetings. And can also be asked in any of our workshops with our external experts. Dance would be great to have again. Can you please clarify what you mean by “dealing with trauma?” - which specific aspect?

Styling/makeup, art therapy, hiking, writing/poetry

All in planning except writing/poetry. Can you please post in our forum to see who would be interested in this? I know we have a few writers and poets in our community.

Finances & budgeting workshop

Can you help us find an expert for the this topic? We haven’t had much luck so far.

More somatic experiencing

Yes definitely yes. Coming up!

Maybe something like the dance workshop but more “supported”. Something playful that would allow us to get rid of bad energy together. Like dancing, singing. Why not laughing workshop?

This all sounds so fun! Do you know of anyone offering this? Or would you be able to research it?