
We engraved on our banner the goal of post-traumatic growth, following our experience and by listening to the needs of the populations we met, we established programs aimed at support, accompaniment and giving tools for growth after the trauma.
We continue to create new programs to meet developing needs. Our target populations include: soldiers on regular and reserve duty, police officers, survivors of the raves, bereaved families, medical teams, young people from the Gaza Envelope and more.

The Show Must Go On: Rimon School of Music
This unique program, run in collaboration with the Rimon School of Music, offers participants an opportunity to process trauma through creative expression and developing musical abilities.
The 20-session composition and writing course is designed specifically for trauma processing and community building. Led by Yehuda Eder, founder and president of Rimon and an outstanding musician, the course teaches basic to intermediate musical skills and hosts well-known artists in various musical genres and styles who provide master classes and workshops.
Target Audience: Survivors of the raves
Objectives:
- Using the creative process of writing lyrics and melodies as a tool for processing and treating trauma.
- Creating a significant peer group.
- Establishing a routine and promoting functional capabilities.
- Restoring a sense of self-confidence and capability.
- Fortifying mental resilience and promoting post-traumatic growth.



Vocational Rehabilitation
Employment is a significant tool for developing resilience and life skills following trauma – connecting to one’s strengths and capabilities, establishing a routine, and providing tools for self-regulation and coping. At Healing Space Rishpon, an on-site candle-making and pottery workshop integrates participants into an active and productive environment that is nurturing and inclusive, fostering opportunities for personal growth and contributing to society.
The program includes weekly meetings with therapists to provide tailored responses to the challenges along the way.
Target Audience: Survivors of the raves
Objectives:
- Building vocational pathways.
- Creating a significant peer group.
- Establishing a routine and promoting functional abilities.
- Restoring personal capabilities and self-confidence as part of the healing and recovery process.
- Fortifying mental resilience and promoting post-traumatic growth.

Telling the Story: Writing Workshops
The program offers participants an opportunity to express the range of emotions that arose during the horrifying events they endured. Through the experiential workshop, rave survivors will examine their personal trauma – their memories, feelings of anguish, longing, anxiety, and more. Writing is an effective platform for processing trauma and the workshop, accompanied by a trauma treatment specialist, will allow survivors to express themselves and identify anchors of hope as part of their healing and recovery processes.
At the end of the program, we will produce an anthology of the survivors’ narratives that will showcase the workshop’s outcomes and reflect participants’ experiences on October 7, offering testimony to the horrible events they endured.
Target Audience: Survivors of the raves
Objectives:
- Using writing as a platform for expressing and processing trauma and pain.
- Creating a safe space for personal expression and finding hope through writing.
- Restoring personal capabilities and self-confidence as part of the healing and recovery process.
- Creating an anthology of personal accounts reflecting the participants’ experiences.



Hand-to-Heart: Coping With Grief
Healing Space provides special trauma therapy to help comfort and rehabilitate bereaved families who lost their loved ones.
The circle of grief encompasses not only parents and siblings, but also grandparents, nieces and nephews, cousins, life partners and other extended family members who fall outside the State-recognized definition of a bereaved family. For those suffering from the most tragic grief, the Hand-to-Heart program surrounds them with love, community and emotional support. A variety of healing methods such as shiatsu, reflexology, and herbal therapy, as well as creative workshops in sculpture, painting, music, and more, help the grieving confront and process their pain and loss, as they begin the long process of recovery from trauma.
Target Audience: Bereaved families
Objectives:
- Creating a safe and supportive space that recognizes and legitimizes the terrible loss.
- Creating a community framework and an external physical communal meeting place.
- Identifying building blocks for overcoming loss.

Cycle of Support: Tools for Parents
Healing Space supports parents of survivors through community-building and parent-centered programming to enable parents of survivors to better understand and care for their children.
Parents who support survivors of trauma often endure a form of trauma themselves and require their own circle of support. Structured workshops help teach survivors’ supporters how to understand and process their children’s trauma, cope with their own struggles to understand the tragedy, and manage the balance between providing freedom and setting boundaries.
Target Audience: Parents of survivors
Objectives:
- Offering parent-centered care to support a special circle of caregivers.
- Creating a community framework, a safe and supportive space, and an external physical communal meeting place.
- Providing tools to process trauma.
- Fortifying mental resilience to promote post-traumatic growth.
- Providing guidance and tools to help parents in supporting their children.
- Restoring a sense of self-confidence and capability.
