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Meet
SafeHeart
Help us send one festival survivor + family member to Safeheart’s end-of-year healing retreat. Be one of 36 people to donate $36 to make their healing possible!
SafeHeart is a mental health organization that brings together a professional network of clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, psychotherapists and qualified clinical instructors, all of whom have experience working with severe traumatic experiences and in the field of psychedelic harm reduction and integration.
SafeHeart in numbers:
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400 therapists offering long-term care
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1,000 festival survivors receiving long-term therapy
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50,000 hours of therapy provided to festival survivors in 2024
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19 retreats with partners across Israel
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26 support groups for families of survivors
This December, we are partnering with SafeHeart to fund one Festival survivor + one family member to attend their second retreat for survivors and their families.
This special retreat allows for the October 7 festivals massacre families to heal together. The retreat, set in the tranquil “Secret Forest” retreat center in Cyprus, provides a rare and supportive environment where survivors and their loved ones can speak openly about their trauma, many for the first time, and share their stories, supported by a team of experienced trauma therapists.
The retreat focuses not only on those who survived the massacre but also on what SafeHeart calls the “1.5 Circle” - parents, siblings, and partners who were profoundly affected by the events of October 7 but whose trauma has often gone unrecognized. On that day, many parents drove into active combat zones to rescue their children, stayed on the phone for hours listening live to the horrors, or scoured hundreds of Telegram videos in desperate attempts to locate loved ones.
Yet while survivors have received significant therapeutic support, families often did not allow themselves to seek help, focusing instead on caring for their children while carrying their own unprocessed trauma.
“Three days ago, I arrived at the retreat shattered inside and out. Dealing with my injury and the loss of my love was unbearable. The intensity and depth of the experience here is unlike anything else I’ve experienced. I’ve gained tools that allow me to believe everything will be okay—strength and courage to continue fighting. Music that was left behind will now be a tool for me to emerge from darkness into light.” —Sivan, Nova Festival Survivor
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This end-of-year retreat gives festival survivors and their loved ones a rare chance to heal, together. To send one survivor and one family member, we need $1,300 by the last night of Hanukkah.
If 36 people contribute $36, we can make this healing possible.
