I am working with an organization that uses a program for treatment of juvenile offenders (specifically teenage girls). I would like to make a wall quilt to hang on a door. Right now an ugly old dusty wreath is on the door... blah!
I'm trying to come up with a visual that will be easily read as "Sanctuary." I'm not even afraid to applique Sanctuary right onto it. These girls come from hard backgrounds, emotional, physical abuse, and worse. I don't want it to read too child-like nor too adult. Gotta be "cool" or whatever it is these days to be hip and "in the now."
I'm thinking an umbrella might look to child-like.
A full tree with 7 branches to represent the 7 commitments?
I would LOVE your ideas. I've been googling images and pondering on my own and I'm just not coming up with anything I like. I would love a brainstorming session.
Here are some blurbs from the website - so you can get an idea of the program philosphy:
The Seven Sanctuary Commitments represent the guiding principles for implementation of the Sanctuary Model – the basic structural elements of the Sanctuary “operating system” - and each support trauma-related goals for clients and for staff:
A Commitment to Nonviolence – helping to build safety skills and a commitment to higher purpose
A Commitment to Emotional Intelligence – helping to teach emotional management skills
A Commitment to Social Learning – helping to build cognitive skills
A Commitment to Open Communication – helping to overcoming barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management, reduce acting-out, enhance self-protective and self-correcting skills, teach healthy boundaries
A Commitment to Democracy – helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority
A Commitment to Social Responsibility – helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships, establish sense of fair play and justice
Commitment to Growth and Change – helping to work through loss and prepare for the future
Also they commonly refer to S.E.L.F. - Recovery from trauma
The four key domains of healing: Safety (attaining safety in self, relationships, and environment); Emotional management (identifying levels of various emotions and modulating emotion in response to memories, persons, events); Loss (feeling grief and dealing with personal losses and recognizing that all change involves loss), and Future (trying out new roles, ways of relating and behaving as a “survivor” to ensure personal safety and help others).



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