Healing Spaces Bridging Inner Wellness and Environmental Harmony

Background

This project promotes emotional and spiritual wellness by creating community-based healing spaces in Bamburi, Kisauni Subcounty. Poor, dusty, and muddy roads make it hard for learners and parents to access three schools, affecting well-being and daily life. Using counselling tools and role-play, the community will explore how the bad road impacts them and find local solutions to improve access, encourage reflection, and build resilience together.

Project Overview

This project aims to promote emotional and spiritual wellness through the creation of community-based healing spaces. Using counselling psychology tools and participatory role-play methods, the initiative helps communities explore the link between their internal well-being and the external environment. It focuses on healing, reflection, empowerment, and locally driven solutions.

Goal

To use participatory counselling approaches and environmental reflection to support individual and collective healing in communities.

Objectives

  • Use counselling psychology skills in real-life situations
  • Understand how inner wellness connects to the environment
  • Support community healing that respects local values and traditions

Target Groups

  • Students
  • Community members and Parents.
  • Youth leaders and Peer educators
  • Women’s groups and caregivers

Methodology and Activities (using Tools 1–6):

  TOOL  ACTIVITY  Purpose
  Tool 1: The River Code Role-play on navigating emotional and life challenges Empower decision-making, respect, and guidance
  Tool 2: Take a Step Socio-emotional mapping Build empathy and awareness of inequality
  Tool 3: The Boat is Sinking Value-based decision-making  Understand group dynamics, crisis, and emotional   reasoning
  Tool 4: The Diamond Farm Storytelling on self-worth and mindfulness Encourage personal reflection and inner richness
  Tool 5: The 65-Year Old Couple Reflection on resilience and faith Promote patience, hope, and emotional maturity
  Tool 6: Secret in the Box Different levels of perception Enhance self-awareness and experiential learning

 

 

7. Expected Outcomes:

  • Increased emotional expression and stress relief
  • Strengthened empathy and understanding among community members
  • Clear linkages drawn between wellness and the physical environment
  • Enhanced community leadership in mental health dialogue

8. Implementation Steps:

  1. Preparation & Orientation: Brief leaders and volunteers. Train facilitators on counselling tools.
  2. Interactive Sessions: Host weekly sessions using one tool per week in selected community locations.
  3. Group Reflections: After each session, facilitate guided discussions to unpack lessons and emotions.
  4. Healing Space Design: Involve participants in designing symbolic healing spaces (gardens, benches, story stones).
  5. Closure & Celebration: Conduct a closing session where participants present reflections and open the space to the wider community.

9. Timeline:

  1. Duration: 2 months
    Sessions: 4 sessions- biweekly

10. Deliverables

  • Community healing space designs or maps
  • Role-play documentation or video recordings
  • Participant feedback summaries
  • Final reflection report

11. Resources Required:

  • Skilled facilitators (trained in counselling and group work)
  • Outdoor and indoor meeting spaces – especially where the challenges are.
  • Materials for storytelling and role-play (Blackboard, props, flipcharts, markers)

12. Monitoring and Evaluation:

  • Attendance and participation records
  • Observation of group dynamics and engagement
  • Pre- and post-activity reflection forms
  • Follow-up interviews with selected participant

Healing Spaces: Promoting Emotional and Spiritual Wellness Through Community-Based Environmental Care

In our community, simple daily struggles like poor, dusty roads in the dry season and muddy, flooded paths when it rains make life harder for children walking to school and families trying to earn a living. For many here, each day is about surviving to see tomorrow — our schools run on hope and resilience, and our roads test our faith and patience.
Healing Spaces is a community-driven effort to connect environmental care with emotional and spiritual wellbeing. By improving the roads, planting trees, organizing local clean-ups, and creating safe spaces to talk and share, we help our people breathe a little easier — in mind, body, and spirit.
This project reminds us that when we make efforts and fix the paths our children walk on, we also clear the paths in our hearts and minds. Together, we can build a stronger, healthier community where hope grows alongside cleaner roads and peaceful dialogue.
Special dedication and thanks to:
1. Africa Nazerene University

2. Dr. Susan Gitau
a).  Susan Gitau Counseling Foundation
b).  International Professional Counselors Centre-IPCC
c). Africana College of Professionals (ACOP)

3. Caremibos Wellness Ventures 
4. Glory Mediation Community Based Organization
5. Mediation Training Institute East Africa
6. Students and Parents from Drama club Mombasa St. Anne’s Academy UItange, Bamburi, Kisauni Subcounty, Mombasa County
7. Community Members – UItange, Bamburi, Kisauni Subcounty, Mombasa County
8. Rikefu Graphics -Your support, dedication, and faith make this work possible.