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TRANSFORMATIONAL COURSES & MENTORING BY SURVIVORS

Fully you

A multi-course program to help you on your journey of becoming Fully You. Our online workshops are curated, designed and led by survivors who, like you, seek to reveal their best selves. Learn how to create handmade jewelry and macrame, journal for personal transformation and gain new skills in self affirmation and video editing that will boost you at home and in your career. We are a mission at Karana Rising to support you becoming fully you!

 
“Five years ago, if you’d asked me where I saw myself, I’d say I didn’t. Now, I’m an advocate, mother and artist. Along the way, journaling has been a lifeline while I’ve worked through my past and created my future. I can’t wait for you to join me.” – Ashley Lowe, Survivor Leader for the Transformational Journaling Workshop
 
Your free Fully You membership includes access to our private online sessions, facebook community, workshop materials, regular access to survivor mentors and additional blogs and updates by and for survivors. 
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PROGRAMS

KARANA RISING'S
STRATEGY

Supporting Survivors

Survivor instructors will be trained in workshop development and compensated $25 an hour for their workshops,including any preparation time.

Employing Survivors with Purpose

In 2021, we aim offer 1,950 employment hours to survivors on our team. We will triple this in 2022!

Sustaining Ourselves & Survivors

Through survivor-led paid workshops to the broader community, Karana Rising will raise the income required to partially sustain programs beyond the initial $130K through donors, events and paid workshops,

Our Growing Community Worldwide

Will will triple our survivor-led community while reaching an anticipated 1000 survivors a year in the United States and abroad.

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Co-founder // survivor

LIZ KIMBEL

I have all this pain inside but I know now that I can use it to transform. the lives of other survivors.

WORKSHOPS

Self-Affirmation

This workshop series offers survivors a pathway to create a meaningful and easily-accessible statement of self-love. During the workshop, survivors will create a personal self-affirmation video (1- 2 minutes in length) designed to provide emotional support and a boost of energy for themselves. Curriculum will cover topics such as how to create the perfect recording space, select clothing and a style to represent your inner love, and ways to edit and store the video.  All videos are for the sole use of each participating survivor. 

Led By:Liz Kimbel and Christabelle Robinson, Director of survivor design and wellness

Journaling for Transformation

The central focus of this ongoing workshop is regaining a relationship with yourself. Designed to offer concrete tips in effective communication, the instructor will use guided questions and tips on reflection to spark the creative process. The course is offered every two weeks for one hour and each participant will receive a hardbound journal to begin their inner transformation work. 

Led by:Ashley Lowe, leader of the Advocacy Lab

Modern macrame Design And Creation

We will focus on teaching the basics of macrame, from knots to designs, and how to layer those designs. We teach basic design techniques and creative flow using sustainable and ethically-sourced or up-cycled materials. Participants learn to create their own designs and gain skills in marketing, photography and sales along the way.  Participants are limited to 10. All proceeds from sales support individual artists. Products are sold at www.karanarising.org/shop or individual etsy shops.

Led By:Christabelle Robinson, Director of Survivor Design and Wellness Lab

Social Media Literacy 

This three-part workshop is designed to support survivors who consume their news and information from online and social media sources. Instruction focuses on the importance of social media literacy, explores the need to be critical of news sources, provides tools to use, and teaches basic truth and fact checking exercises. The workshop concludes with each participant engaging in a small project to fact-check the news through a particular story.
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Led by: Andrea Powell,Co-founder & Executive Director, and Fecha Talaso, Co-founder & Director of Partnerships

Photographic Expressions

This six-part workshop is designed to offer some lighthearted and skill-building fun to participants by teaching them how to utilize free tools on their phones to create, edit, and alter images that speak to their inner story and sense of identity. Photographic projects will be presented weekly over three months to help guide participants toward artistic self expression.

Led by:Andrea Powell, Executive Director

Jewelry, Beads and Metals Creation

Participants will learn the basics of jewelry design and creation as well as working with sustainable and ethically sourced or upcycled materials. Participants are limited to 15.  Participants learn to create their own designs and gain skills in marketing, photography and sales along the way.All proceeds from sales support individual artists. Products are sold at www.karanarising.org/shop or individual etsy shops.

Led by:Fecha Talaso, Co-founder & Director of Partnerships

Whole Nutrition and Cooking

What we put into our body directly affects our mind, mood, and energy. This ongoing series of workshops is designed to offer budget-friendly and healthy options for participants interested in creating a holistic approach to health, food and nutrition. They also offer access to a limited supply of seeds, herbs, and other food items to help support healthier eating on a budget and with limited time. Learn to love to cook for YOU!

Led by: Andrea Powell, Executive Director, Shilo White and Christabelle Robinson,Director of Survivor  Design and wellness Lab

 

Join us now in giving directly to a survivor in crisis or need.We offer survivors in our care direct access to services everyday.

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Fully You Workshop

Fecha Talaso

Fecha Talaso is the co-founder and director of partnerships at Karana Rising. Fecha  is a certified victim advocate using her eight  years of advocacy and direct service work to cultivate staff growth and development to advance the mission of Karana Rising and the individual goals of the survivors on our team.

Fecha works alongside the executive director to develop and advance policies and programs supporting survivor justice and and healing, including external earned media and owned media consumption. Fecha is responsible for creating and managing Karana Rising’s communications, website, virtual survivor mentoring and workshop portal and social media channels. She is responsible for the development and management of programmatic and development partnerships. 

Prior to joining Karana Rising, Fecha was the prevention education specialist at FAIR Girls, a nonprofit that serves young women survivors of human trafficking, and residential counselor for FAIR Girls’ Vida Home. 
 
Longing for a day when justice is perfect with a deeper international lens from which to view the health and humanitarian challenges facing people around the globe,wealth of experience and practical experience in development and a deep belief in the power of partnership and collaboration and transformation of vulnerable populations and communities at large has continually reenergized the urge to change the world in her own little ways. She dares to dream and passionately to fight criminal and social injustices, as well as retrogressive practices that marginalize vulnerable populations like women and children. She can be reached at fecha@karanarising.org

Andrea Powell

Andrea Powell is the co-founder and executive director at Karana Rising. Ms. Powell is Karana Rising’s chief liaison to the D.C. Human Trafficking Task Force where she co-chairs the training and outreach committee.

 Prior to founding Karana Rising, Andrea was the founding executive director of FAIR Girls, a nonprofit that serves young women survivors of human trafficking. Ms. Powell is also the Director of Survivor and Youth Engagement at Unitas. In 2014, Andrea led the FAIR Girls’ team to create and open the only safe home for young survivors of human trafficking in the nation’s capital area. Andrea has led crisis response teams where she assisted law enforcement and other front-line responders in finding and recovering survivors of human trafficking who were later offered safety and supportive services. She received her Masters of European Union Law at the Center for European Integration Studies from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany and Bachelor of Arts and Science in International Relations from Texas State University. Andrea’s writing has been published in the New York Times, CNN, PBS, Huffington Post, Marie Claire, MSNBC, NBC THINX, Thompson Reuters, FAIR Observer, and the Washington Post. She also sits a private consultant for Freedom Fwd and Project Explorer. She can be reached at andrea@karanarising.com