This training aims to illuminate the internal emotional and mental recovery that often gets forgotten and/or minimized when one endures a major physical recovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Beg3G1E8vw

Drawing on our own personal experiences, we demonstrate our many shades of grief to help normalize the nuances and experiences of our audience members.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvsMNGyupoI

This training explores the impact that carrying a diagnosis of HIV can have on an individual by displaying various responses to the question - if you could take your diagnosis out of yourself and put it in front of you, what would it look like, what would it be doing, and how would you relate to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvsMNGyupoI

The first story represented the period before realizing change is possible, facing that possibility, wrestling with fear and inhibitions, and increasing motivation for change to a point of action. The second piece demonstrated a narrative of moving forward with change despite lack of clarity, facing doubts and criticism, developing internal growth, and finally gaining the self-confidence to experience freedom and peace in this new place of change.

This training was performed for providers who serve refugee populations. Told through the eyes of a young refugee trying to navigate through the resources of a new country, it highlights the struggles of both the refugee and the providers tasked with serving them and asks the question "how do we best care for this vulnerable population?"