On July 4-8, 2022 the trainers’ team of the “Helping Hand for Ukraine” project conducted a 5-day “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” online training. 40 new trainers took part in the training event. Inquisitive, creative and caring psychologists, volunteers and educators from different cities of Ukraine were learning from certified trainers Iryna Sukhova, Natalia Podolyak and Olena Bozhor.

After the training, the participants shared their impressions. They mentioned high quality, simplicity and availability of educational materials, professionalism of the trainers and effectiveness of the methodology. The participants also voiced their readiness to work in the framework of the project to preserve the psychological health of young Ukrainians and their parents.

We wish success to everyone and victory to Ukraine!

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The “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” online training for psychologists of the Rokada Charity Foundation was held on July 4-8, as part of the project “Helping Hand for Ukraine”. The trainers – Iryna Sukhova and Natalia Podolyak – have worked with 32 participants, specialists who currently work in Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, Ternopil, Zhytomyr and many other towns and villages of Ukraine.
“Our project cooperates with the Rokada Foundation,” – says Iryna Sukhova. – And we are glad to see an active position of our partner, the desire to learn and increase the professionalism in order to help those who are in dire need because of the war against Ukraine”.

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In June, Antonina Sorochynska and Yulia Nestor held a “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” therapy course for children 7-9 years old who are internally displaced from Luhansk, Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. Therapy sessions were held in Truskavets as part of the “Helping Hand for Ukraine” project in cooperation with the “Voices of Children” charity organization. The children were actively involved and persistently practiced self-help techniques to overcome unpleasant memories, anxiety, fears, terrible sounds and images in their heads.

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In June the “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” therapy sessions took place in Truskavets. They were organized for a group of teenagers who moved to this town with their parents from Luhansk, Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. The instructors of the program – Olha Palamarchuk and Maryna Rudneva – worked with the group. Thanks to the warm atmosphere created by the instructors, their professionalism and caring hearts, the participants learned to cope with their emotions, as well as with PTSD symptoms caused by the war against Ukraine. They also worked through and overcame the effects of their traumatic events and also learned special techniques on how to help themselves to deal with stress, intrusive memories and fears.

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