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Healing, Resilience and Empowerment – Stress management & Self Empowerment

Stress management and rehabilitation support for refugees

The experience of loss, destruction, violence and flight from conflict can have serious negative consequences for mental, emotional and physical well-being. In severe cases, this can lead to an increase in suicide, destructive behavior, burn-out, post-traumatic stress (PTS), depression, and disease, while in less severe cases, individuals may experience functional disability, decreased motivation and performance, and an increased risk of disease and drug abuse.

 

 

In response to natural and manmade disasters, IAHV collects funds and goods for immediate material aid and care, provides and supports trauma relief and stress-management programs, and supports long-term rehabilitation.

Our programs

While there are already many approaches to integrating fugitives into society, there is a lack of basic and effective approaches to trauma processing, which makes integration in many areas very difficult. IAHV closes this gap with its HRE programme, which is specifically aimed at fugitives and their experience background, which enables healing, strengthens resistance and enables people to become more self-determined and empowered.

IAHV’s several hour programs deliver measurable results, including rapid and significant reduction in symptoms of PTS, depression and anxiety, and improvement in quality of life for individuals and communities.

IAHV also offers stress management, healing and resilience programmes for professionals (e.g. social workers) working in difficult environments.

 

Stress Management (HRE – Healing, Resilience, Empowerment)

For survivors of disasters, who have experienced severe physical and emotional trauma, material help alone is not sufficient. Alleviating the trauma and helping people to reconstitute their personal lives is essential. IAHV’s Trauma Relief programs – HRE – teach participants how to process their emotions and stress through the breath, to shift their attention away from reliving the past towards future possibilities. Participants leave the workshop with stress and trauma management techniques, healthy coping strategies, stronger community bonds and a sense of personal power.

Regular follow-up meetings then accompany people in order to integrate what they have learned into everyday life and exchange experiences.

HRE programmes are currently already being implemented in several German cities, usually as a supplement to existing programmes by the Federal States, cities and municipalities and other aid organisations:

  • Dresden
  • Marburg
  • München
  • Rosenheim
  • Witten

Projects in other cities are being planned or prepared.

In Belgium, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Norway, our local IAHV sister organisations are also successfully using this program to care for refugees.

The programs, which are mainly carried out on a voluntary basis, are difficult or impossible to implement without further financial support. Therefore donations are always welcome.

You can also take an active part, e.g. train as an HRE trainer and carry out HRE programs and aftercare.

Your personal support in other areas of our programs and projects or in administration is also welcome. Get in touch with us! (see below)

 

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YES! for Schools

YES! for Schools is dedicated to providing youth with a healthy body, a healthy mind and a healthy lifestyle.

About YES! for Schools

YES! for Schools is dedicated to providing youth with a healthy body, a healthy mind and a healthy lifestyle. We do this by offering youth practical tools and life skills to manage stress and emotions. When students learn how to manage their stress in a healthy way, they exhibit greater confidence and motivation to succeed in school and make healthy choices when faced with life’s challenges.

Young people face emotional issues such as low self-esteem, depression and anxiety that are a source of great stress, which inhibits learning. Without a healthy alternative, students often turn to unhealthy strategies to cope with these problems including: smoking, alcohol or drugs, aggression and violence, and withdrawal from social interaction. As students learn to reduce stress and manage emotions they gain the ability to focus and perform well academically at school, as well as the ability to build more positive relationships with their peers, parents and teachers.

Healthy Body

The Healthy Body module encourages physical fitness and healthy food choices through:

  • Physical activity that includes exercise to stretch and strengthen the body
  • Experiential processes that encourage mindful eating
  • Interactive discussions on food and nutrition

Healthy Mind

The Healthy Mind module includes stress management and relaxation techniques that encourage a positive mental attitude through:

  • Targeted breathing techniques that reduce stress, anger, anxiety and depression; improve focus and concentration; and enhance learning ability
  • Relaxation exercises that encourage a calm state of mind
  • Experiential processes that revitalize human values such as responsibility, respect, kindness, belonging, honesty, enthusiasm and service

Healthy Lifestyle

The Healthy Lifestyle module includes social emotional learning and life skills in conflict resolution through:

  • Teamwork exercises that teach how to manage emotions and resolve conflict
  • Interactive processes that encourage pro-social behavior, problem solving and cooperation
  • Dynamic discussions that teach goal setting and good decision-making
  • Practical knowledge that increases self-confidence and inner-strength to help students handle peer pressure and make healthy choices when faced with life’s challenges

 

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Prison SMART

Prison SMART (Stress Management and Rehabilitation Training) teaches prisoners how to manage their stress, aggression, and trauma, building a foundation for a new life.

 

“Expand your vision and see that inside every culprit, there is a victim crying for help. That person is also a victim of ignorance, small-mindedness and lack of awareness. It’s the stress, lack of broad vision about life, lack of understanding, and bad communication that leads to violence in society.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, IAHV Founder

The Prison S.M.A.R.T. objective is to make a life-transforming difference in the lives of all people within the criminal justice system, by teaching skills for reducing stress, healing trauma, and providing practical knowledge of how to handle one’s emotions, live to one’s highest potential and contribute to society.

Prison S.M.A.R.T. aims to reduce offender recidivism and end the repeated cycle of violence and abuse. Without tools to process past trauma and present stresses, incarcerated individuals often cope with their negative emotions such as anger, guilt, mistrust, and frustration with unhealthy behaviors and attitudes- including violence, addiction, apathy or lethargy. The Prison S.M.A.R.T. program offers practical methods for participants to transform these negative emotions for true rehabilitation, and develop the core human values innate in all human beings, such as service to others and compassion.

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