CREATIVE & REFLECTIVE OUTLETS
These resources include both self-guided tools and community-based programs that use art, journaling, and storytelling as pathways to resilience.
The Center for Journal Therapy
Offers structured journaling methods and courses to help you explore emotions, reduce stress, and process experiences through writing.
The Wave Project
A reflective healing practice that uses metaphor and guided creative expression to help process trauma and find emotional release through rhythm, imagery, and flow.
Therapeutic Writing Institute
Provides guided prompts and classes on expressive writing for healing, resilience, and personal growth.
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC
Community-based theater projects that help participants process experiences and practice storytelling in safe, empowering ways.
Songwriting with Soldiers
Uses collaborative songwriting to help veterans and families process trauma through music and connection.
Art with Impact
Programs using film and creative arts to explore mental health and trauma in a safe, supportive community space.
Trauma Healing Arts Program
Resources and networks for connecting people with creative outlets designed for resilience and healing across communities.
Creative Art Therapies at Ghetto Film School
Provides young people opportunities to tell their stories through film, integrating trauma-informed practices with creative production.
Art Therapy Resources
A hub of creative exercises, prompts, and educational material for using art as a healing and reflective tool.
Poetry for Personal Power
A peer-led organization that uses poetry slams, storytelling, and creative arts to transform trauma into empowerment and community advocacy.
The Telling Room
A nonprofit writing center dedicated to creative expression and storytelling as a modality for processing lived experiences and trauma.
The Red Door Project
A theater-based program using performance, dialogue, and storytelling to process trauma and bridge divides between communities and law enforcement.