Reclaiming Your Canvas: Art-Focused Survivor Support Group
Fall Cohort beginning October 7, 2025
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.
To register or learn more, email Alexandra at alexandra.araujogonzalez@northwestern.edu.
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