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Not Alone
A network of trauma-focused art therapy clinics. established as an immediate response for the victims of the events of October 7.
2023
Herzl 156 Tel Aviv

Not Alone's network of clinics has been operating since October 7 in three branches:

1. Herzl 156 branch in Tel Aviv - the 'Not Alone' clinic.
The clinic provides individual, couple or family treatments for the survivors of the Otef massacre. The sessions are free for patients.
In addition, there is a project to train therapists for group work with trauma through art, deepening knowledge of acute and cumulative trauma and models suitable for short-term focused treatment during a period of ongoing trauma. (The project in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense and the organization of art therapists in Israel)
Training therapists through art to work in a studio in an open studio model
Instructor training through a training course on training through art in the studio (the courses are also acknowledged as study fund)
The clinic occupies senior therapists alongside Volunteers who specializes in trauma from the fields of mental health: art therapists, psychoanalysts, psychologists and psychiatrists

2. The healing space at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art - group art therapy
Rehabilitation from trauma through the power of the group, creative personal expression and discourse on existing works of art. a personal process of converting trauma into an artistic force of action that initializes the impulse of life, empowers and nourishes the ability to act in the world.
The workshops consists of 12 group sessions and include:
- Exhibition tours
- Personal work using art, animation, collage and AI
- A group process guided by senior therapists
- At the end of the process, the participants who wish to do so will be able to present products in an exhibition that allows further processing using the "curation therapy" method
Sign up for the waiting list in the form: https://forms.gle/3dXJTDMHAvRAT8rF9

In this area of ​​the clinic, four projects take place:
- Focused short-term group therapy for: survivors of the October parties, casualties of the Iron Swords war, women from the surrounding kibbutz who survived the massacre. (once a week 3 hours for three months)
- one-day processing workshops for medical teams; clinical teams; and training teams working with the survivors of the massacre and the war.
- A safe open studio space for the families of the abductees.
- In cooperation with the Rehabilitation Division at the Ministry of Defense, there will be a one-year therapy group for bereaved siblings (starting in November 2024 once every two weeks, 3 hours)

3. Beit HaLochem branch in Jerusalem
At the moment the project operating in this complex is a group work focused on processing and restoration. Rehabilitative therapeutic work that is based on a combination of learning a profession from the field of art and therapy.

For donations to the initiative: https://bankayma.org/notalone/

The founder and director of the clinic - Dr. Ofira Honig

Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The National Insurance Institute
Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs
The Fund for Class Actions (קרן לתובענות ייצוגיות)
Yated (יתד)
JDC
Jgive
Asor fund
Tech for Israel
Yuvalim

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