Reclaiming Your Canvas: Art-Focused Survivor Support Group
New cohort will begin in Spring Quarter 2026
To register or learn more, please email alexandra.araujogonzalez@northwestern.edu!
Reclaiming Your Canvas is a six-week, art-focused support group for Northwestern University students who identify as survivors of sexual violence, stalking, or intimate partner/domestic violence. Through engagement in various forms of creative expression, this group will offer a space to explore the nature of survivorship and the self through nonverbal processing. This group will most benefit those already engaged in support services.
The hosting department will provide all art supplies.
This group will be facilitated by Alexandra Araujo Gonzalez and Meredith Abdelnour.
Weekly Focus Area
- Week 1: Life Worth Living/Dreamstorming
- Week 2: Disenfranchised Grief and Emotions Post-Trauma
- Week 3: Inherent Self-Worth and Radical Self-Acceptance
- Week 4: Identity Formation and Reclamation
- Week 5: Reclaiming Your Voice; Reclaiming Your Narrative
- Week 6: Resilience through and with Community