What does Survivor Arts Collective do?
Peer Support…peer support is using our lived experience as survivors for survivors. We come together to provide active listening, knowledge, experience, & emotional support, as well as resources. Peer support is non-clinical and operates outside of the system. We are not an expert on YOU or feel the need to “fix” you. You are the expert of you. We are not mandated reporters, which means we will not call the police or emergency services on you, even if suicidal. We prefer the Alternatives to Suicide approach. Calling the police puts BIPOC folks, especially Black folks, at risk.
1 on 1 peer support: For survivors by survivors. We can meet online, phone, or in person for 50 minutes with options to meet one time, weekly, every other week, or monthly. See our sliding scale to determine your category. Wealth Redistributor: $75 Pay it Forward: $74 - $65 Sustainer: $64- $55 Pay What You Can: $55 - $40
Art based individual peer support: For survivors by survivors. Just like a support group, but 1 on 1 support using art as a tool to help transform trauma. You will get 1 writing/art based prompt per week for 4 weeks that are geared towards working through trauma. At the end of the 4 weeks, we come together online or in person, where you share all 4 weeks of work from the prompts and get supportive feedback. Appointment is 50 minutes. You can do this for 1 month or for many months, it’s up to you. See our sliding scale to determine your category. 4 weeks of prompts & 1 appointment: Wealth Redistributor: $110 Pay it Forward: $90 - $109 Sustainer: $70 - $89 Pay What You Can: $40 -$69
Peer facilitated support groups: Support groups are offered online and in person. We offer groups open to the general public of survivors, for queer and/or trans survivors, and groups specifically offered at colleges for their students. All groups are (a)gender inclusive. Support groups are writing and/or art based with such topics as: Share Your Story, Poetry, Zine Making, Photography, or Tarot. All groups require a commitment of 6-10 weeks depending on the group. Support groups are sliding scale $25 - $55 per week. See our sliding scale to determine your category. Wealth Redistributor: $55 per week Pay it Forward: $45 - $54 per week Sustainer: $35 - $44 per week Pay What You Can: $25 - $43 per week. All support groups are paid 50% when you register, and 50% on the first day of the support group.
Bodywork: Somatic techniques are used to help relieve tension, be more body aware (if that’s your goal), lessen trauma symptoms, and regulate emotions. For survivors by survivors. See our sliding scale to determine your category.
50 minutes: Wealth Redistributor: $110 Pay it Forward: $90 - $109 Sustainer: $70 - $89 Pay What You Can: $40 - $69
80 minutes: Wealth Redistributor: $160 Pay it Forward: $140 - $159 Sustainer: $120 - $139 Pay What You Can: $55 - $119
Peer facilitated online chat support: We have weekly, online, text only, anonymous chat rooms on Hack Chat, for survivors by survivors. These chats are FREE. Tips to the facilitator are accepted, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. All chats will be posted on Instagram and FaceBook. On hold at this time.
Trainings: Survivor Arts Collective offers live Zoom trainings as well as in person trainings that are masked. We also have recordings of a few of our webinars you can purchase for individual use. You can get them HERE. Some trainings we offer are: Bystander Intervention: STOP Sexual & Relationship Violence, Transformative Justice 101, Transformative Justice: Survivors & R@pe Culture, Transformative Justice: Practical Implementation for Your Workplace or Group, Trauma Informed Practices: More Than Just a Buzzword (We tailor this to YOU! Ie. bodyworkers, medical professionals, tattoo artists, etc.), Peer Support Group Facilitation: How To, & Finding Ground: Tips & Tricks for Survivors and Allies
Events: We have had online events such as art shows, live Instragram auctions, open mics, ask an herbalist live on Instragram, and more. In person events such as social justice fairs, community family dinner, and the Valley favorite Queer Trans Beach Day! Check out our FaceBook and Instragram page for community building events.
Mutual Aid: Mutual aid is the idea that “we must cooperate to survive!” (P. Kropotkin) It is solidarity with our neighbors rather than charity. Our survival, as survivors of sexual and relationship violence, depends on cooperation of all resources we have available. We routinely help support members in our community that need help. We treat no one as disposable. We not only provide support locally, but are starting a new mutual aid project that will bring Survivor Arts Collective to under-resourced areas across the country to provide support with Gordita - the bad ass mutual aid bus. We will bring supplies like Narcan and Plan B as well as other material support that is needed. We will facilitate “train the trainers” in how to run their own Bystander Intervention trainings as well as peer led support groups.