02/28/2026
This past week Rebecca Shults had the opportunity to lead a staff training and then a collaborative experience with trafficking survivors at Project Rescue/ Fiet in Spain. What an amazing time!
The team are incredibly gifted counselors/educators and passionate about doing their job well.
The ladies at the Safe House have been rescued out of s*x trafficking in Spain over the past year, and participate in a wholistic restorative program. Rebecca coordinated a time of reflection and processing their lived experiences in the context of Isaiah 61:1-4, and what it feels like to experience the complex trauma, a sort of “death/ashes” on multiple levels, and to experience— surprisingly— a joy, a beauty that seems to bloom from the ashes in unexpressed (unique to each person) ways. The ladies (ages 20+ and from 8 different home countries) worked together to paint, rip up, and paste paper leaves onto a painted canvas— an oak tree . It was inspiring to witness their commitment to grappling with their own healing process, and to support one another through it as well.
We will be conducting a similar collaborative Healing Arts experience with the public at our office in Springfield next week. Follow us if you’re interested in similar events in the future.
(All faces are disguised for the protection of survivors)
