Workshops for Survivors
We offer a variety of special workshop opportunities for survivors year-round. To be notified of upcoming workshops, contact our Office Manager, Lilly Ross.
PAST WORKSHOPS
A Day of Mindfulness and art
March 15, 2025: This day-long workshop is designed for female-identifying adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse to gather with other survivors in a day of reflection and art to offer support, sharing, and personal expression.
Presenters:
Julia Laibson, LMFT, is a therapist at RPC. She uses an eclectic approach that is grounded in attachment, internal family systems, somatic, mindfulness, and interpersonal neurobiology in her work. She supports bringing in different creative modalities to explore and increase understanding of past trauma and facilitate healing.
Sharon Sanborn, MA, LMHC, ATR, CHT, has been in private practice as a psychotherapist/licensed mental health counselor and art therapist since 2005 in the Seattle area. Her approach includes Internal Family Systems or “Parts-Work,” CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Focusing and hypnotherapy with an emphasis on helping people develop “Emotional Wisdom” or a way to utilize ALL of their emotions to support the lives they want to live.
A Day of Mindfulness and Poetry
March 8, 2025: This day-long workshop is designed for male-identifying adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse to gather with other survivors in a day of reflection and poetry to offer support, sharing, and personal expression.
Presenters:
Janice Palm, MA, LMHC. Janice has been guiding adult survivors through individual, group, and workshop therapy for over 2 decades. She believes in the power of healing in community and in the transformative power of meditation.
Dorothy Lemoult, MA, LMHC, RDT. In addition to being a Licensed Mental Health Therapist (LMHC), Dorothy is a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) and a Poetic Medicine Practitioner. She is passionate about preventing and healing trauma, especially sexual abuse and complex trauma and has extensive experience treating survivors.
STORYFINDING®: Mining Narrative Gold from Character
March 16, 2019: Local screenwriter, interviewer, and survivor, Warren Etheredge, will be sharing his craft of Storyfinding to help male survivors bring new understanding and value to their own story.
A Day of Poetry and Mindful Healing for Women
June 30, 2018: For Women-Identified Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
A Day of Poetry and Mindful Healing for Men
February 24, 2018: For Male-Identified Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
A Day of Poetry and Mindful Healing for Women
December 9, 2017: For Women-Identified Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
"The Stories We Tell"
September 10-11, 2016: In partnership with The Voices and Faces Project , RPC was pleased to host "The Stories We Tell," a writing workshop for survivors of sexual violence, domestic violence and trafficking.