Hello to the global network from San Diego!
I am pleased to share an update on the work of Shyne on our one year anniversary!
The Social Garden, a new space designed to include holistic alternative therapies to assist with healing complex trauma, officially launched with their Sprang Thang on May 25, 2019. It’s a space where Shyne held its first Leadership Retreat Day back in April. We are pleased to share that the Social Garden will be home for Project SEEN on a bi-weekly basis moving forward, providing artistic expression and creative writing classes led by survivors as well.
The Social Garden is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization based in Oceanside, California. It is the sister program to the Victory Garden Sanctuary that will include a tiny home village of safe homes for survivors of sex trafficking and cults. Also, they’ll be partnering with more organizations that help survivors of sex trafficking by focusing on business development, professional development, leadership, and other survivor services.
[quote]At this time, Shyne already has 11 survivor-owned businesses in the network we are calling “The Velvet Tent.”[/quote]
In the photo below is Naseem Murakami from Healing Sound Alchemy in Los Angeles. Her business partner, Andrea Saenz, is a friend of mine and they’ve been running events where they also support Shyne with donations.
We are working on some summer sound healing events for survivors, yoga classes free of charge, and an end-of-summer music event fundraiser. In addition to all this, Shyne has 10 new volunteers to train as soon as possible, so we’re creating those screening systems now and will launch Biz Dev LV2 on June 19 with 3 new survivor-owned businesses joining the class. Really what is being created is commUNITY – a place where survivors of sexual exploitation come to learn, share, connect, heal, find resources, network and listen.
Thank you for helping us celebrate our one-year anniversary of Shyne on June 9. I’m working to put out a newsletter soon with more updates about clients’ successes! Be inspired ❤
