Where We Bring Healing & Hope

Healing. Empowering. Everywhere.

From our Women’s Center in the Beqaa Valley to outreach in refugee camps and conflict zones, we work directly with women, youth, and families navigating crisis. Our community-led programs nurture resilience, rebuild trust, and open pathways to healing — wherever the need is greatest.

Lebanon

Healing in the Heart of Crisis

In Lebanon, Circle of Wellbeing works at the frontlines of war, poverty, and displacement — offering urgent support and long-term healing to women and families most at risk. From our safe and welcoming Women’s Center in Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, we deliver trauma-informed mental health care, emotional support, and empowerment programs tailored to the lived realities of refugee and conflict-affected communities.

Whether it's a mother rebuilding trust with her child, a young woman learning to express herself through art, or a grandmother receiving winter fuel for her family — our work centers dignity, resilience, and community care. In times of emergency, we also bring aid and support directly to camps and frontline areas, ensuring no woman or child is left behind.

  • From one-on-one counseling to healing circles and psychosocial workshops, we help women process trauma and rebuild emotional safety after war, abuse, or displacement.

  • Mothers can attend sessions knowing their children are cared for in safe, nurturing spaces designed to encourage growth, play, and emotional development.

  • Our women-led art, tailoring, and design sessions support emotional release and economic resilience, allowing women to reclaim voice and purpose through creativity.

  • Through community circles and workshops, women learn about gender-based violence, legal rights, bodily autonomy, and tools for self-advocacy.

  • During escalations, we provide displaced families with essentials like food, hygiene kits, clean water, mobile showers, and first aid — with compassion at the core.

  • At the heart of our work is the belief that women are not only survivors, but changemakers. Our programs foster leadership, sisterhood, and shared strength.

Syria

Support in the Shadows of Conflict

Circle of Wellbeing is preparing to launch programs inside Syria — a country where over a decade of war has shattered systems, families, and futures. In the midst of this ongoing crisis, we’re working to open a Women’s Center led by and for Syrian women, creating a safe space for healing, learning, and rebuilding lives with dignity.

Our approach will center mental health care, emotional first aid, safe childcare, and livelihoods support, tailored to the cultural and social realities of the communities we serve. By training local women as facilitators and care providers, we not only build resilience — we restore agency and create opportunity in the heart of devastation.

In October 2025, Circle of Wellbeing, in collaboration with EMA, carried out a distribution outside Damascus together with our local team. During this initiative, we provided hygiene kits to 100 women in the community.

Alongside the distribution, we facilitated women’s health sessions, offering essential information and support on personal health, hygiene, and wellbeing. These sessions created a safe and empowering space for women to share, learn, and strengthen each other. This initiative reflects our joint commitment to supporting women living in vulnerable situations in Syria, where access to basic necessities and health education is still severely limited.

  • A safe, welcoming Women’s Center will offer community-based mental health support and emotional safety for women and children in high-risk areas.

  • We’ll provide trauma-informed group sessions, healing circles, and one-on-one support to help women begin processing the emotional toll of conflict.

  • Mothers will be able to attend sessions knowing their children are in caring, familiar environments designed to offer play, structure, and emotional safety.

  • From sewing to home-based income generation, we’ll offer skill-building workshops to help women rebuild autonomy and support their families.

  • All programming will be staffed by Syrian women — restoring trust, creating jobs, and ensuring services are grounded in the community’s needs and culture.

  • This is not a drop-in effort. It’s a commitment to long-term healing and stability — led by women, for women, in one of the world’s most overlooked humanitarian crises.

Norway

Diaspora Healing & Global Solidarity

In Norway, Circle of Wellbeing is building a bridge between local minority communities and global struggles through programs that center mental health, cultural connection, and solidarity.

Yoga Program in Oslo – Circle of Wellbeing & Kvinnefronten: Circle of Wellbeing, in collaboration with Kvinnefronten, is starting a new trauma-informed yoga program in Oslofrom November to April. The program is especially designed for women with minority backgrounds, offering a safe and supportive space to strengthen both body and mind.

Sessions will take place twice a month and focus on gentle movement, breathing techniques, and grounding practices that can help reduce stress, release tension, and promote healing. Alongside the physical practice, the gatherings will also encourage community and connection, creating a circle of wellbeing where women can share and support each other. Participation is free of charge, and we also offer childcare during the sessions (limited to 15 places).

We host wellness workshops, community events, and awareness campaigns that uplift marginalized voices and offer tools for healing in a new home. Our programs serve not just Arab diaspora women, but the wider minority population across Oslo, with a strong focus on inclusion, resilience, and shared empowerment.

Through creative initiatives—like selling handmade tatreez tote bags to fund our work in Lebanon and Syria—we invite Norwegians into a global circle of solidarity. Every stitch carries a story, and every event deepens our shared commitment to justice and dignity.

  • We offer culturally sensitive wellness sessions—including trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness—for minority women in Oslo. These safe, welcoming spaces help participants release stress, reconnect with their bodies, and build supportive community bonds.

  • Crafted with care by women in refugee camps, our tatreez tote bags carry powerful stories of heritage and survival. All proceeds support Circle of Wellbeing’s on-the-ground programs in Lebanon and Syria—turning art into action.

  • From educational panels to solidarity gatherings, we organize events that shed light on displacement, occupation, and gender injustice—amplifying voices from the Global South and building empathy across borders.

  • We connect Norwegian allies with diaspora and refugee communities through storytelling, advocacy, and volunteer opportunities—fostering mutual understanding and collective action rooted in dignity and care.