Support group in Liepaja: gong therapy for women and canistherapy for children!

Ukrainian women continue to meet in support groups in Liepaja and Riga. The participants like the times when they all go somewhere together - to a concert, an exhibition or to get to know an organization. On February 21, the lesson in Liepaja was very special!

Līga Krēsliņa, Kurzeme coordinator of the project "A person remains a person":

"The members of the support group went to Tibetan bowl and gong therapy. After the lesson, on the way home, they did not stop talking about the feelings and emotions they got during the therapy. It allowed them to switch off for a moment and be somewhere else in my thoughts, and to shout out, to laugh out loud, to cry out emotions, which was very important, especially at this moment, when everyone looks back on what happened in the last two years.

It is very important to improve not only the emotional state of women, but also to notice the emotions of children. Therefore, I took the children to the "CANIS GROUP Liepaja" canistherapy class, where the children laughed, overcame their inner fears, and cooperated with the dogs. When returning to their mothers, the children excitedly told that they were with "popiki" (dogs).

One of the participants had a birthday. She admitted that she couldn`t ask for a better birthday present!
The women were grateful for the lesson itself, as well as for showing them such an opportunity, which they will definitely use in the future."

Ukrainian women`s support groups are one of the measures in the project "Human stays Human", which is implemented by the "Shelter "Safe House"" with the financial support of the US State Department.