You can contact Eva House on 02 49986162 or e-mail evahouse@mayumarri.com.au
Eva House – Young Women 16 - 25 Yrs
Eva House was designed for young female survivors aged 16-25 who are ready to heal the wounds of their past and make a new start in life, free of trauma and its tormenting effects.
At Eva house, you will have the support of loving and understanding facilitators and carers trained in our healing model. They have all been through either the Adult Healing Centre or the Eva House program themselves as a guest before being offered the chance to come back to train as a carer.
The Heal for Life healing centres are different from most other healing programmes because:
1. Everyone who is involved in the program is a survivor of child abuse or trauma. Sharing similar experiences allows us to understand the pain you are suffering and its effects on a more personal level.
2. Most people are volunteers so you can be reassured that we are here because of the love and commitment we have in wanting to help other survivors heal from their own abuse or trauma. the programme has helped us and we believe it has the potential to help assist others in their healing. Why would we be here as volunteesr if we didn’t feel that?
3. We are the only place in Australia offering this model for healing; acknowledged by independent reserach , previous guests and trauma specialists worldwide as being effective and successful.
Eva House is based at Mayumarri in the Hunter Valley and uses the same techniques for healing as the adult centre. The difference is that it is a 3 week program specifically for 16-25 year old females. There are many reasons for the development of the Eva House program that we believe are quite important:
- From research on the brain, it has been discovered that a person doesn’t actually fully mature until their middle to late 20’s; this contributes to many problems that a young adult may encounter in a week long program. For instance, it can make it harder for a young person to concentrate for as long as someone over the age of 26 and so can take a longer period of time to fully integrate any new information learnt. Eva House takes this into account by keeping workshops as short as possible and also teaches in “young peoples language” to make it easier to take in the information given.
- While the adult centre starts their day at 8:30am, Eva House doesn’t start its daily schedule until 10am. This is because research has shown that as young people don’t function their best early in the morning.
- We have acknowledged that the younger the survivor, the more one on one support they need. That’s why we have a limit of 8 guests at a time. It gives the carers a chance to spend more time working on an individual basis.
- At Eva House the day-to-day schedule is much more flexible and open to the needs of the guests. The content of the workshops are also aimed at this specific age bracket. They concentrate on the areas that the guests may have difficulty coping with at this point in their life.
- For adolescents, their experiences of abuse and trauma are much closer chronologically than that of an older person and it is more likely that the guests have not journeyed much into their healing yet or even at all. Thus, a three week period gives them the chance to come to terms with their abuse.
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To find out what a general day at Eva House involves check out the registration pack.
