Art for Wellness & ARTS-BASED PSYCHOEDUCATION
and more to come...
About Sacred Art of Rising
Be The Change
SAOR’s Mission is to aid healing from chronic and complex trauma exposure via nonverbal and verbal therapeutic platforms, to provide a safe space for explorations in existential self-discovery and self-actualization, and aid in individual, family, and community healing. SAOR’s retreat-styled and trauma-sensitive services will invest in historically disinvested and neglected communities and engage survivors with fellow survivors in the journey of healing as we are stronger together.
Through community investment, community building, creative exploration, somatic awareness, clean foods, nature exposure, and mindfulness practices, catharsis can be engaged, and we can help one another find and reach our own highest good. Together.
Community ∞ Creation ∞ Catharsis
Jessica McGhee
Jessica is a Fine Artist, Art Educator and student of Syracuse University’s Creative Arts Therapy Master of Science Program through the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) graduating in May of 2024. Jessica earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts from Syracuse University as well.
Jessica is a Wounded Healer, a survivor with CTSD and invisible disabilities. Jessica has conducted extensive research into trauma and the sequelae of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Traumatic Stress Disorder (CTSD), and is well-versed in the tough road in recovering from complex trauma exposure.
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Our Approach
Jessica uses Creative Arts Therapy and Arts-based Psychoeducation to provide participants with the necessary education and tools on how acute, chronic, and complex trauma impact the explicit and implicit mind, the somatic self; and how creative investigation and investments into the self can be implemented while journeying through path of recovering the whole self from the Living Legacy of Trauma.
EXPERIENCE POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH AT SACRED ART OF RISING
SAOR’s goal is to reach our vulnerable marginalized communities and provide folx with a pathway out of chronic suffering, help you see their worth, create a safe space for social rest & connection, nurture creative and existential investigation into the self, & provide equitable access for our community members to flourish into your self-directed purpose.
Sacred Art of Rising's long term goals
Our Evolution
SAOR is an aspiring 501c3 which currently offers art-based psychoeducation workshops for survivors of chronic and complex trauma. This is only the beginning.
SAOR is a social justice organization investing in historically disinvested and neglected communities which survive collective, complex, and chronic trauma exposure. SAOR aims to help individuals heal from trauma(s) sustained on individual, family, and community levels with a wide array of therapeutic opportunities without a barrier to access due to inability to pay.
SAOR will offer a Resource Center in Syracuse's Southside, free transportation to our Retreat Center, and a mobile app. If you would like to learn more about SAOR's full development goals, please see the details noted in the PDF documents below. If you would like to get involved, email jessica@sacredartofrising.org.
Our Recent Team Addition
SAOR has a new Chief Operating Officer! Shubh Swain has a PhD in Population Sciences and is a public health program implementation expert. He has led the design, management, program monitoring, and impact evaluation of more than 30 health programs at community, state, and federal levels. He has worked around the issues of HIV prevention, harm reduction i people with substance use disorders, maternal and child health, prevention of gender-based violence, and improving nutrition through a food system approach in diverse low-resource settings of the Global South.
He is passionate about underserved populations. Coming from a low socio-economic background in a remote district in India, Shubh realizes the importance of equity and inclusion to achieve better human well-being.
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