University reports present session themes, creative practices and participants’ experiences. They cover different age and social groups and document the development of TRUST’s local activities. The date under each title identifies the publication of the corresponding report.
Creativity and Support for Internally Displaced Persons
Published: 15.05.2025
Displaced students met to get to know one another, discuss their experiences and participate in creative interaction. The session explored mental health, changes in everyday life and sources of personal resilience.
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Mental Health in Colours
Published: 26.05.2025
Participants reflected on the meaning of mental health and compared images of themselves during settled and difficult periods. Conversation was complemented by visual exploration of feelings.
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An Art Therapy Support Space for IDPs
Published: 27.05.2025
This meeting for internally displaced persons focused on recognising emotions, stress factors and personal resources. Group work offered opportunities to share experiences and discuss support during war.
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Emotional Balance
Published: 23.05.2025
Children, young people and older adults living in college dormitories joined a session at Poltava Oil and Gas Vocational College. Creative work explored emotional states and interaction across age groups.
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Transforming Thoughts in the Context of War
Published: 28.05.2025
Displaced students put associations with war, change, loss, support and hope onto paper. Their drawings provided a starting point for discussing personal experiences and meaningful points of reference.
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Releasing Emotions Constructively
Published: 29.05.2025
The session connected psychological support with movement and dance. Working with music, participants explored sensations and ways of expressing emotions through spontaneous movement.
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My Inner Fear
Published: 29.05.2025
Fear was explored through images and plasticine modelling. Participants gave a visible form to their experience and reflected on their relationship with the image they created.
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Elements of Nature in Collage
Published: 30.05.2025
A workshop at the Centre for Contemporary Art connected psychology and design through the elements of nature. Displaced students used collage, images and materials to explore personal associations.
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Transforming Resentment
Published: 28.05.2025
Adult internally displaced participants explored resentment in the context of loss and war-related stress. Creative work provided opportunities to discuss difficult feelings and personal resources.
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Emotional Intelligence and Resilience
Published: 31.05.2025
A meeting for internally displaced persons explored emotional intelligence and attention to personal experience. Music and creative interaction complemented discussion of inner support and resilience.
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My Tree of Life
Published: 02.06.2025
Students explored a tree-of-life image through a graphic practice, considering values, relationships and sources of support. The symbolic drawing provided a way to reflect on what gives them a sense of stability.
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Life Balance
Published: 03.06.2025
Metaphorical cards helped participants consider different areas of life, the distribution of attention and personal resources. Closing reflection focused on individual symbols of support.
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The Tree of Strength and the Bird of Our Dreams
Published: 04.06.2025
Two creative practices, the “Tree of Strength” and the “Bird of Our Dreams”, formed the basis of a children’s session. Participants explored strengths, important relationships and images of their future.
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My Superpower
Published: 06.06.2025
Fifth-year pupils from the Intellect Lyceum explored the idea of their own superpower. Movement exercises, music and a creative task opened discussion of individual strengths and responses to difficulties.
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From Images of Pain to Images of Recovery
Published: 07.06.2025
The “Draw Your Volcano” exercise invited participants to explore intense feelings through an image. Creative work was connected with reflection on their inner experience and possible ways of understanding it.
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Colours of Emotions
Published: 09.06.2025
Children took part in the “Drawing a World without Worries” exercise. Colour and images provided a way to explore feelings, ideas of calm and the world they would like to see.
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Colours of the Heart: A Journey Within
Published: 09.06.2025
A college dormitory session focused on awareness of emotions and personal experience. Artistic images provided a basis for individual reflection and group discussion.
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Where the Inner Voice Comes Alive
Published: 09.06.2025
Metaphorical cards opened conversation about emotions, needs and aspirations. Participants used symbolic images to consider their experiences and the things that guide their lives.
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Circle of Trust
Published: 11.06.2025
Collaborative creative work explored trust and self-expression alongside other people. Participants considered the connection between individual contributions and shared activity.
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Music in Colour
Published: 11.06.2025
Displaced participants connected listening to music with attention to feelings and colour. Sound and visual experience provided a starting point for discussing their emotional state and everyday sources of support.
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Mandala Inside: The Art of Emotional Connection
Published: 11.06.2025
Participants created five-ring mandalas exploring their inner state, relationships, safety, future and support. Individual images brought together reflection on different areas of personal experience.
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Me and My Anchors
Published: 20.06.2025
The session explored internal and external sources of support. Participants used creative images and a breathing-and-colouring practice to reflect on their state and sense of stability.
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Harmonising the Self
Published: 13.06.2025
Displaced participants explored personal resources through a graphic practice. Lines and images became material for reflection on identity, emotional balance and support in changed circumstances.
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Floral Collage from Recycled Materials
Published: 17.06.2025
Participants made floral collages from recycled materials. Bringing separate fragments into a new composition offered space for creative choices, expression and reflection on renewal.
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The Language of the Body: How Movement Communicates
Published: 18.06.2025
Psychological support was connected with choreology and exploration of movement as communication. An air raid alert moved the session into a shelter, where participants continued working together.
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Breath Rhythms and Colours of Nature
Published: 18.06.2025
Preschool children connected drawing with breathing rhythms and images of nature. Age-appropriate creative activities explored emotions and perceptions of calm.
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Tears in the Palette. Joy in the Strokes
Published: 18.06.2025
This meeting explored childhood memories and experiences of love and loss. Childhood photographs, images and metaphorical cards provided material for personal reflection and discussion of the past.
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Art Therapy for Inner Strength
Published: 18.06.2025
Participants modelled a safe place from plasticine, such as a room, woodland clearing or imagined house. The creative process explored personal meanings of protection and inner calm.
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Creative Support for Young People Who Have Experienced Loss
Published: 19.06.2025
Balance in dance and everyday life connected psychological and choreographic work with young people. Participants considered bodily sensations, interaction and sources of stability following loss and change.
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In Your Rhythm: From Tension to Harmony
Published: 20.06.2025
Body-oriented practices and choreography formed the basis of a session about personal rhythms. Participants explored movement and balance through both individual attention and shared activity.
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Creativity and Restoring Inner Balance
Published: 23.06.2025
An emotions circle, drawings, collage and symbols structured discussion of personal experience. Students explored their current state and creative ways of expressing difficult feelings.
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A Letter of Anger and Transforming Emotions
Published: 23.06.2025
The “Letter of Anger” practice invited participants to put feelings into writing and continue through creative reflection. The session explored attention to anger and personal responses.
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Me in Balance: The Body That Knows Its Centre
Published: 23.06.2025
The session connected body awareness with personal balance. A movement coordination exercise formed part of an exploration of attention, sensations and a sense of stability.
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Pages of My Life
Published: 25.06.2025
Through a “Book of Life” exercise, participants represented significant past events, present meanings and future aspirations. Group interaction and attention to humour complemented reflection on personal stories.
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Tree of Feelings
Published: 27.06.2025
An outdoor university session used the image of a tree to explore feelings. Symbols and group interaction opened discussion of individual experiences and shared sources of support.
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Group Image: How Mutual Understanding Emerges
Published: 30.06.2025
Participants created a shared picture by contributing individual elements. Graphic materials and discussion explored the relationship between personal contributions, the image of the group and mutual understanding.
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A Journey in Colour: Emotional Landscape
Published: 30.06.2025
A landscape became a metaphor for emotional experience during an outdoor session. Participants used colour and natural images to represent sensations and share associations.
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Four Frames of My Story
Published: 01.07.2025
At the Centre for Contemporary Art, participants explored their histories through a sequence of visual images. Individual pieces were created within a group offering space to listen and share experiences.
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Circle of Goodness
Published: 01.07.2025
Collective drawing explored kindness and mutual support. Participants created symbols of goodness, considering their own contributions to a shared composition and their experience of belonging within the group.
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Path of Unity: The Art of Being Together
Published: 02.07.2025
Separate sheets were brought together into an image of a shared path. The practice connected personal stories with those of others and opened discussion of trust, connection and mutual help.
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A Message to Myself
Published: 02.07.2025
Participants created a personal symbol of strength and hope. Creative work was connected with discussion of worries, feelings and images that they associated with support.
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Labyrinth: In Search of an Exit
Published: 04.07.2025
The labyrinth offered a way to represent inner experience and a personal search for direction. Participants placed an image of themselves within it while considering feelings, needs and possible paths.
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The Colours of My Feelings
Published: 07.07.2025
Four areas of colour were connected with different life periods and emotions. Participants added images and events, relating colour to their personal histories.
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My Inner Garden
Published: 09.07.2025
The meeting focused on mothers raising children with disabilities. Body-related images provided a starting point for discussing emotions, responsibilities and their own needs.
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Rays of Warmth and Creative Support
Published: 11.07.2025
Children with Down syndrome and their mothers joined creative and movement activities. Introductions through a “Dance about Myself” were followed by work with images, emotions and group support.
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My Inner Bird
Published: 15.07.2025
Preschool children explored an inner bird through creativity, play and body-based activities. The session focused on emotional expression and attention to their own sensations.
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The Island of Self-Love
Published: 15.07.2025
An imagined island formed the basis of a preschool session. Children explored self-care, kindness and a place they associated with calm and support.
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The Light Within Me
Published: 15.07.2025
The “My Inner Light” practice explored personal sources of hope and support. Participants concluded by creating a shared circle of words associated with light, trust and mutual help.
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My Emotions — My Strength
Published: 18.07.2025
Mothers used body silhouettes as maps of their feelings. The meeting opened conversation about emotional responsibilities, attention to their own needs and support while caring for children.
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Hearing Yourself Amid Sirens
Published: 22.07.2025
The session brought together displaced people, military spouses and other family members affected by war. Images and creative dialogue helped explore needs, experiences of exhaustion and individual sources of support.
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Resource Tree
Published: 22.07.2025
Participants created a resource tree as an image of their life and inner experience. Roots, branches and other elements opened discussion of important people, values, experience and sources of strength.
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A Journey to the Inner World
Published: 23.07.2025
A creative session at the preschool centre explored children’s inner experiences. Shared activity and accessible images provided ways to discuss feelings, joy and associations with safety.
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The Magic Fish: Creative Activities for Preschoolers
Published: 23.07.2025
A fairy-tale sea journey formed the basis of a preschool session. Children imagined themselves as travellers, explored different feelings and created a magic fish as a symbol of hope.
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Finding Your Rhythm: Support for Older Displaced Persons
Published: 23.07.2025
Older displaced adults living in college accommodation explored emotional and everyday rhythms. The meeting considered bodily signals, needs and self-care following displacement.
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My Family and Me in Miniature
Published: 25.07.2025
Mothers of children with cerebral palsy used symbolic figures to explore family histories. Creative work opened reflection on their place within the family, relationships and sources of support.
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In Search of a Miracle: Art and Fairy Tales
Published: 25.07.2025
Art and a fairy-tale narrative were combined in a children’s session. Finger paints and handprints enabled participants to create images and join a shared creative activity.
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My Guardian Angel
Published: 29.07.2025
Group interaction, visualisation and drawing explored the guardian angel image. Participants considered symbols of protection, trust and support and gave them personal creative expression.
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My Heart in Your Hands
Published: 29.07.2025
A fairy-tale narrative and simple materials supported a children’s session about connection. Preschool participants expressed feelings creatively and worked together with the image of a heart.
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Chocolate Joy
Published: 29.07.2025
Older displaced participants joined a session connecting creativity with the sensory experience of chocolate. Taste, aroma and conversation opened reflection on feelings, memories and care.
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In Your Rhythm: Harmony of Body and Mind
Published: 29.07.2025
Movement activities continued the exploration of personal rhythms, emotions and bodily stability. Choreographic interaction complemented other creative forms of support.
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Chocolate for the Soul
Published: 29.07.2025
Chocolate served as a sensory material for exploring memories and emotional associations. Participants discussed meaningful positive moments and created images of personal strength.
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Ornament of Unity
Published: 01.08.2025
Ukrainian ornament opened conversation about roots, memory and belonging. Participants connected cultural images with personal experiences of home and community.
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Bouquet of Joy
Published: 05.08.2025
Creating a sweet bouquet was connected with images of care and support. A “Flower of My Resources” exercise complemented reflection on personal sources of energy and self-care.
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A Bouquet of My Strengths, Dreams and Feelings
Published: 05.08.2025
The bouquet image connected personal strengths, aspirations and feelings. Participants used creativity for expression and reflected on their resources within a supportive group.
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Emotional Kaleidoscope
Published: 05.08.2025
The session focused on recognising and creatively representing feelings. The kaleidoscope image opened reflection on emotional variety, change and their place within personal experience.
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Between Discovery and Choice
Published: 08.08.2025
“Windows and Doors” metaphorical cards opened conversation about choices and opportunities. Participants used images to reflect on their needs and possible directions in life.
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My Support
Published: 12.08.2025
Through a graphic practice, participants created personal maps of support. Lines and images explored resources and their sense of agency in everyday life.
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Where New Opportunities Open Up
Published: 13.08.2025
Participants used metaphorical cards to explore new opportunities. Creative dialogue focused on changes in life, personal needs and possible next steps.
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From Anxiety to Personal Resources
Published: 19.08.2025
Discussion of anxiety was complemented by drawing a flower whose petals represented personal resources. Participants identified the things that support them in everyday life and help them move forward.
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Symbols of Peace
Published: 13.08.2025
Metaphorical images, calm music and attention to bodily sensations were combined in a session about symbols of peace. Participants explored associations with safety and awareness of the present moment.
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The Sea — A Source of Strength and Peace
Published: 20.08.2025
Displaced women worked with seascapes and associations evoked by the sea. The session connected colour and natural imagery with personal perceptions of calm.
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The Colours of My Heart — Blue and Yellow
Published: 22.08.2025
Preschool children used blue and yellow to make individual flags. Bringing them together into a shared display created an image of unity, peace and hope.
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The Family Compass
Published: 26.08.2025
The meeting explored family relationships during war. Artistic images and reflection helped participants consider connections with loved ones, individual needs and mutual support.
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Breath of Wind
Published: 28.08.2025
Wind provided a metaphor for group creative work about change and a sense of lightness. Participants explored their experiences and shared support amid uncertainty.
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My Safe Space
Published: 28.08.2025
Participants created visual images of places associated with protection. Individual work and group discussion opened space to share personal meanings of safety and hear others’ experiences.
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Landscape Transformation
Published: 28.08.2025
A landscape was used as a metaphor for inner experience. Participants worked with the image and its transformation while reflecting on their emotional state, hope and safety.
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Echoes of Nature. Nature as a Mirror
Published: 29.08.2025
Participants chose an element of nature and represented it visually, adding feelings and associations. The practice connected attention to the environment with personal creative expression.
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Sounds of Nature
Published: 29.08.2025
The session focused on attentive listening to natural sounds. Sensory experience opened discussion of grounding, personal feelings and connections with the environment.
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My Voice in Colour
Published: 29.08.2025
Favourite music provided a starting point for sound and visual associations. Participants translated their experience into images and colour while exploring personal forms of expression.
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Butterfly Wings: Support for Older IDPs
Published: 12.11.2025
Older internally displaced adults joined a meeting about stress and perceptions of calm. The session considered forced changes, the need for social contact and attention to personal needs.
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Friendly Support
Published: 24.10.2025
A small group of older displaced adults explored mutual support using natural materials. An “Autumn Tree of Letting Go” practice offered a symbolic way to consider change, feelings and personal resources.
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My Golden Fish
Published: 27.10.2025
A student meeting connected nature-related imagery with metaphorical cards. The golden fish theme provided a way to explore wishes, needs and sources of support.
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Primal Images Within Me
Published: 27.10.2025
Participants explored symbolic images associated with feminine, masculine and natural themes. Creative work opened discussion of personal associations, identity and inner experience.
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PsychoArt: Mental Health Through Creativity
Published: 12.11.2025
The opening PsychoArt student session combined drawing, metaphorical cards and fairy-tale narratives. Young people explored emotions, personal resources and interaction within a group.
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Harmony of Sensations: Scent, Taste and Colour
Published: 14.11.2025
A multisensory session connected creativity with making chocolates. Choices of flavours, aromas and shapes complemented work with colour and attention to personal sensations.
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PsychoArt: A Key to Inner Balance
Published: 19.11.2025
This student meeting explored current emotional states and self-regulation. Grounding practices and creative reflection focused attention on personal needs and sources of support.
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The Shadow of Letting Go
Published: 20.11.2025
Autumn imagery informed creative work about change and the loss of familiar surroundings. Displaced participants explored letting go, memory and personal space for new meanings.
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PsychoArt: Keeping the Inner Flame Alive
Published: 03.12.2025
A PsychoArt session explored the image of an inner flame during difficult times. Participants reflected on what sustains hope, self-care and connections with others.
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Anticipation of Winter: Graphic Metaphors of Resilience
Published: 04.12.2025
A “Graphics of Trees” practice connected artistic work with personal resilience. Form, line and tree imagery supported reflection on identity and sources of stability.
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Bird of Hope
Published: 10.12.2025
A bird image formed the centre of a creative practice about hope, farewell and renewal. Artistic expression offered a way to explore personal experiences and possible changes.
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Snowflake of Personal Meaning
Published: 11.12.2025
Participants created collages shaped as eight-pointed snowflakes. Each point related to a life area or emotional experience, supporting reflection on the year and personally meaningful themes.
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PsychoArt: My Inner Strength
Published: 17.12.2025
The session began with attention to breathing, physical stability and the present moment. Further creative work explored inner strength and a personal image of protective support.
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The Star of Desire
Published: 24.12.2025
Participants explored a star image, light and the space of the paper. Creative interaction and artistic choices were connected with personal wishes, hopes and intentions.
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Workshop of Stars
Published: 24.12.2025
A pre-Christmas session invited students to create personal star images. Different forms and creative choices provided material for reflection on needs, boundaries and confidence in their own resources.
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Contacts and Project Information
TRUST develops through cooperation among partners, professionals, creative activity participants and organisations supporting people affected by war. Its official website brings together information about the consortium, educational resources and main results.
Questions about the international project can be addressed to its team by email. University publications present Poltava Polytechnic’s participation and local activities, while project social media provide further news, photographs and videos.
European Union Support
