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Reclaiming Your Canvas: Art-Focused Survivor Support Group

Wednesdays from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm; Begins April 16, 2025

Reclaiming Your Canvas is a six-week, art-focused support group for Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ University students who identify as survivors of sexual violence, stalking, or intimate partner violence. Through engagement in various forms of creative expression, this group will offer a space to explore the nature of survivorship and the self through non-verbal processing. This group will most benefit those already engaged in support services.

The hosting department will provide all art supplies.

Weekly Focus Area

This group will be facilitated by Alexandra Araujo Gonzalez (CARE) and Akshita Pokharna (CAPS)

To register or ask for more information, email Alexandra at alexandra.araujogonzalez@northwestern.edu 

From Surviving to Thriving

From Surviving to Thriving is a support group at NU for student survivors of sexual violence. This goal-oriented, 9-week group will offer a space for healing and restoring social connections while creating a structure to safely put words to one’s experience. The group members will focus on integrating past and present, grieving losses, and looking towards a future self.

The group will be facilitated by Carrie Wachter (CARE) and Kanika Wadhwa (CAPS).

This group will most benefit those also currently engaged in therapy*.

If you would like more information or to get involved, please email carrie.cox-wachter@northwestern.edu. 

*CARE can help to refer you to no-cost or low-cost therapy in the Chicagoland area.

Grad Survivors' Collective

CARE and the Women’s Center have come together to create GSC—a weekly, virtual group open to Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ graduate and professional students of all identities who have experienced sexual or relationship harm. Relevant experiences include but are not limited to domestic violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and stalking that occurred before or during enrollment at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ. GSC offers a space for sharing, processing, and resourcing around the unique experience of pursuing a graduate degree while healing from these types of harm.

The group is confidential, and meetings will begin with an opening check-in activity to set ground rules and reflect on our past week. The remainder of our meeting will be spent in dialogue and building community. We will close each meaning with a mindfulness activity to ease our transition back into the rest of the week.  

This is not a structured therapy support group. Students are welcome to join the group at any point during the quarter, after completing a brief intake meeting. There are no attendance requirements for the group; students may attend as many or as few sessions as they’d like. You can choose what you do or do not disclose about your experiences. 

We are currently recruiting members and plan to begin meeting in summer or fall. If you are interested, please fill out the . Days and times for the meetings will be determined based on member availability.

If you have any questions, email facilitator Katelyn Kennon, CARE’s Assistant Director of Outreach, at katelyn.kennon@northwestern.edu.

Navigating Survivorship: Journey of Self-Love & Healing

This confidential, open group is for NU undergraduate students who have experienced sexual violence, dating violence or stalking at any point in their lives. This will be a virtual space that students can find support and connection, learn new coping skills and build community. The group will begin Fall 2024 and meet weekly.

If you would like more information or to get involved, email carrie.cox-wachter@northwestern.edu.