Resurrection After Rape Community Group
Discussion, question-and-answer, general social support, and journal processing for progress-oriented rape survivors. No crisis, no damaging or triggering conflicts--this is for individuals who want to contribute to collective, cooperative action toward the goal of making actual PROGRESS through rape trauma. Much of this work is based on the book "Resurrection After...
I have an idea, which may or may not actually come to pass (but in my life, I tend to plow ahead and somehow actually get things done anyway once I set my mind to it, so it's not just a manic dream)...I'd like to see a weekend or 3-day wilderness retreat for survivors to meet and party and learn together.
Here is my concept:
I have access to a campsite in Stillwater, OK which is church-owned. It's a dorm-style lodge, not "cabins with spidery bathrooms down a dirt road" like some camps. It has forests, trails, and a fishing lake...
I'd like to have speakers and leaders run programs for participants so we can gather and discuss issues, find inspiration, have fun/play games, do artworks, hear music, have campfires, and make enduring friendships.
At the end of the camp, I'd like to have a sweatlodge run for whoever feels they would like to go through the ceremony, cleansing before leaving for home.
So my question is this: would people actually want to attend this? This would NOT be "therapy camp" and we wouldn't be sitting in circles and "processing trauma." This would be a chance to step outside the "trauma stuff" and actually be a community, a tribe, coming together. Even a couple of us men, too.
the camp would not be free, but I don't know what the cost would be yet. If we can get over 2 dozen registered members, the cost would drop significantly. We would also need to buy food and feed the cooks, and perhaps have travel stipends for our visiting speakers and group leaders.
If this were held next Spring, would you attend? Would you want to bring family members?
If it were held on a 3-day weekend, would you attend for 3 days?
How much money would you think is a reasonable cost for this, and how much would be too high and prevent you from coming?
What ideas would you like to contribute for the program?
Should I proceed?
As far as I know, there has been NOTHING like this ever conducted around here for survivors. The sad result is that survivors tend to feel burned out, overwhelmed, and obsessed with this one issue, as if it is the center lodge pole of their lives, and they feel burdened by having to constantly deal with is as a trauma, or guilty if they feel led to detach and take a break form it all. I'd like to offer a third alternative: positive, happy, relaxed, celebratory community in which peace, not trauma, is our unifying bond.
Here is my concept:
I have access to a campsite in Stillwater, OK which is church-owned. It's a dorm-style lodge, not "cabins with spidery bathrooms down a dirt road" like some camps. It has forests, trails, and a fishing lake...
I'd like to have speakers and leaders run programs for participants so we can gather and discuss issues, find inspiration, have fun/play games, do artworks, hear music, have campfires, and make enduring friendships.
At the end of the camp, I'd like to have a sweatlodge run for whoever feels they would like to go through the ceremony, cleansing before leaving for home.
So my question is this: would people actually want to attend this? This would NOT be "therapy camp" and we wouldn't be sitting in circles and "processing trauma." This would be a chance to step outside the "trauma stuff" and actually be a community, a tribe, coming together. Even a couple of us men, too.
the camp would not be free, but I don't know what the cost would be yet. If we can get over 2 dozen registered members, the cost would drop significantly. We would also need to buy food and feed the cooks, and perhaps have travel stipends for our visiting speakers and group leaders.
If this were held next Spring, would you attend? Would you want to bring family members?
If it were held on a 3-day weekend, would you attend for 3 days?
How much money would you think is a reasonable cost for this, and how much would be too high and prevent you from coming?
What ideas would you like to contribute for the program?
Should I proceed?
As far as I know, there has been NOTHING like this ever conducted around here for survivors. The sad result is that survivors tend to feel burned out, overwhelmed, and obsessed with this one issue, as if it is the center lodge pole of their lives, and they feel burdened by having to constantly deal with is as a trauma, or guilty if they feel led to detach and take a break form it all. I'd like to offer a third alternative: positive, happy, relaxed, celebratory community in which peace, not trauma, is our unifying bond.
I mean, more than the number of them I usually see.
LITTLE PEOPLE!!! could you people be any less PC? Fo realz....
Hey Steht! While I am still under the influence, I will tell this....and erase it when I am fully myself and embarrassed - my status is true! The one I have up about a pain in the ass....I had this thing that showed up on a CT scan...on the base of my spine. They called it a "pilonidal sinus"....and, those get really inflammed and often end up being removed. SO.....funny part....my "friend" at work, when I asked about a surgeon for this thing....told me one's name....it is Kurt Stockamp, M.D. - a General Surgeon operating out of Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola....(I tell you all of that because if you punch in 'Sacred Heart Pensacola' on Yahoo's search....or Bing...or Google...it will bring up the hospital...then you click on the 'find a physician' tab, and put in his name...then....then you will see why I called her from the lobby as I was leaving and called her ugly words while she laughed hysterically!! He is one cute thing! I mean, I had to show this beautiful man...and when my husband saw him...and he is straight as an arrow....I think I even saw a little glint of ..."Yum" come up in his eyes (nah, but...hey this is my drug-induced tale...no pun)! Anywho....he might have been the stud I was all Freudian about. LOL. So, here I am with a crack in my crack...acting like I'm ON crack...and writing about it to all of you. Yep....I'd say the drugs are good at this stage of the game. I just don't want those freaky dreams....midgets....paying hockey...now that is a dream.....last week the bar up the highway advertized "Midget Wrestling" (only in the South)....and I actually wanted to go, lol. And....in true Southern tradition....we ain't PC...it really was "Midget" wrestling.
And...and, and, and....that doctor, Stockamp....his picture doesn't do him justice....he wears these tight scrubs, and they kind of bind up around the biceps....and he has a mild tan....and really perfect white teeth....and he was cutting on my rear end. I had already filled out the papaers and faxed them in....and I had a thing....really embarrassing but...I thought it was one of those things best treated with Preparation-H (hemorrhoid...lol), and I had now seen this doctor as I was checking in and was all ready to just turn around and go ask up front if they had any old, ugly doctors to look at my ass....but, they called me in...then my pulse was all fast and the girl said, "Did you run up the stairs?"....then, I remembered the hemorrhoid thingie and was mortified when he asked me to show him....so, he said he could take care of it too, and that it was only a skin tag, not a rhoid...so, YAY for me, huh? It wouldn't have mettered if it had been a bright, shiny diamond worth a ga-zillion dollars...it was still attached to my ass.....
She sounds like that guy from the Ford commercial...pray its on purpose though ;) naw just kiddin!!!! i know it is...lol