The Healing Community of AMEN

Towards the development of new therapeutic interventions

Starting in the spring of 2025, a dedicated and committed team, accompanied by an organizational consultant and external advisors, has entered a process of deep exploration, learning and reconstruction, toward realizing the full village - the big AMEN.

At his point, we are:

Composing the organization’s handbook – a document stating the vision, goals, principles and procedures.
Establishing a council of wisdom – a circle of leadership that will help direct the realization of AMEN’s vision.
Developing a thorough training program for future staff
Constructing a phased program for providing care - professional, sustainable and accessible to many women.
Formulating a multi-year plan for the organization and its several parts, with a focus on locating the land to sustain the dream.

The decision to pause grows out of listening to life’s pace, and - responsibly recognizing what has transpired so far – seeking to carefully map the path forward.

The Treatment Program at AMEN at is based on 8 core principles:

Trauma-Informed Care

The essence of trauma is the disempowerment of the victim; healing is therefore enabled as one connects with oneself, and creates new relationships based on trust. In a supportive environment, each woman leads/directs her own healing process.

Feminism and Leadership
AMEN is an incubator for female leadership. Any woman who overcomes and releases herself of the confines of trauma, chooses to lead her own life and then to be(come) a social leader – is a powerful force of healing that gives way to the possibility of imagining a new future for society and humanity.

Community – We Are a Community
Here in AMEN, one of the main ways to deal with crisis is by creating a tight feminine and humane support network – enabling every woman to support and be supported, practice healthy relationships of trust and feel meaningful and worthy, and to remember she is not alone.

Nature Heals – Healing is Natural
The healing community of AMEN is situated close to nature. The connection with nature and the land is an essential step on the path to healing. It is also a place for relief and release, expression of pain and grief, which enables, in its unique way, a process of transformation.

Gynecosophy – The Wisdom of the Whole Woman
The healing process at AMEN focuses on coming home to our body, womb, female cyclicality and healthy sexuality, and making peace with our womanhood. Gynecosophy (gyneco =woman, sophia = wisdom), is a school of thought developed by Marva Zohar, combining ancient feminine tribal medicine from around the world and modern western-world knowledge.

Crisis as Birth
We understand that immense personal or social difficulty can be an opportunity for birthing something new, a new creation. In biblical Hebrew, the word “crisis” (מַשְׁבֵּר, Mashber) means ”birthing stool”, or “birth”. We believe that crisis is an opportunity to be reborn. Within a supportive environment, the wisdom of birth is revealed at every moment anew.

Growing and Learning
Our model at AMEN evolves as we go along. We are dedicated to ongoing learning and development, through our dialogue with professional experts, as well as trade literature and knowledge from life experience.

Open Dialogue
The ‘open dialogue’ approach is the core moral compass of AMEN. Through an open dialogue, a woman’s social network and close circle are perceived as full and active partners in her process of recovery from crisis. This approach was developed in a psychiatric hospital in Finland in the 1980’s, and is considered today to be one of the most effective and economical approaches in the world for treating emotional crises.

Safety and protection

We understand PTSD can bring forth various symptoms, and we are here to facilitate complex processes. We are not a hospital, nor an alternative for hospitalization; there is no medical staff on hand, and the premises is unlocked.

AMEN is a place of rehabilitation and healing for women who are at the stage of trauma processing, have supportive connections within the community, and are capable of functioning independently within a supportive community. We cannot provide a shelter for women at high risk.

AMEN invites women who are willing and able to take responsibility for – and be full partners in – their recovery.

Women who choose to protect themselves and the community in the face of any kind of violence and abuse, who understand that it is impossible to do so alone, but also know it is impossible to protect you – without you.

Use of alcohol, drugs or unprescribed medication is prohibited on the premises.