Recovery of
Ukrainian medics
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Processing trauma and PTSD necessarily involves interaction with the physical body. To relax the body from the protective mechanisms that the psyche uses, we create a connection between thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations, teach self-regulation practices and activate the internal reserve of the participants.

This process includes active sports games, contact with water in the pool and the sea, electro-surfing, breathing practices, therapeutic qigong, use of ShiftWave rehabilitation chairs, daily sauna visits, a balanced healthy diet and staying in a hotel far from the city with access to wildlife.

In order to restore emotional balance and return motivation, the project has a series of historical lectures and city tours, with an emphasis on the fight against inferiority, through the debunking of myths imposed by propaganda.

In order to exchange experience, acquire new knowledge and develop future partnership between Ukrainian and Swedish doctors and volunteers (for example: discussion of TSSS standards with combat medics of the Swedish Armed Forces, meeting at the hospital "Sophiahemmet", the rehabilitation center "Aleris", the organization "Framtidståger" ).

We provide an opportunity for participants to talk about the needs of the army or the current situation with prisoners of war to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense of Sweden. We speak loudly about our presence to support the Ukrainian issue on the agenda, so we organize press conferences and meetings with high-ranking officials and institutions of Sweden.

During the project, we arrange a number of meetings with the aim of exchanging experience and building future international partnerships (for example,Sophiahemmet hospital, rehabilitation station Aleris, team of NGO for the reintegration and career guidance of displaced persons Framtidståger).