Since 2022, our friends, an initiative group led by Dmytro Voloshyn and Olena Voloshyna, have created an Art Space in Mykolaiv and have been successfully implementing the ‘From Heart to Heart’ programme there.

During this time, more than 50 art therapy and creative activities have been implemented, two grants have been won, one of which was used to hold a series of free support events for the townspeople throughout the year, and the other to equip the art space for further similar activities.

They now intend to implement a more extensive programme of psychosocial support and well-being for vulnerable populations in Mykolaiv.

Since 2021, the Power of the Future NGO has been cooperating with an initiative group from Mykolaiv, and in April 2024 we consolidated this cooperation in a Memorandum and are pleased to announce the establishment of a regional office of our organisation on the basis of the Heart to Heart Art Space.

Read more about the activities of the ‘From Heart to Heart’ Art Space.
Areas of work:
Organising and conducting creative and art-therapeutic workshops for citizens;
Painting murals to promote the city and conduct educational activities, involving creative youth and teenagers in painting, with the aim of their socialisation.
Development of a playback community in Mykolaiv (a type of social art). 

Team members:
Art therapists, psychologists, artists and craftsmen from Mykolaiv and other cities of Ukraine, cooperation with experts from various fields (ceramics, handmade, painting, etc.).

The main message of our art therapy and creative workshops is aimed at post-traumatic healing, work with the mental health of beneficiaries, social interaction in groups, and the creation of supportive communities.

Target audiences:
● adolescents
● young people
● Senior citizens,
● Mothers and families of military personnel,
● internally displaced persons,
● volunteers,
● other residents of the city.

The general purpose of the activities:
- Social and psychological support
- Healing-restoration of communities
- Recovery from stressful conditions
- Post-traumatic healing
- Returning the joy of life
- Development of creative skills
- Unlocking new potentials
- Building healthy communities
- Creating beauty
- Promoting the city's culture.

Activities:
- art therapy workshops;
- creative workshops;
- training in mural painting;
- rehearsals of the Playback Theatre;
- performative theatre and improvisation meetings;
- transformational games;
- therapeutic cinema;
- fairs, festivals;
- musical meetings;
- body-movement trainings;
- coworking spaces, etc.

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