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Ellestedet has been to a very special event at Great Place To Work, an organization that helps companies create a great workplace culture with their innovative solutions, employee surveys and cultural analysis. Great Place To Work is a global organization that specializes in evaluating and recognizing workplace culture and employee experience.

Companies that achieve high marks in Great Place To Work assessments are often recognized and certified as "A Great Place To Work". This certification can help them attract and retain talented employees and improve their reputation in the industry.

On this special night, they announced the winner of Denmark's Best Workplace and we'd like to share the result with you!

We are very proud to announce that we have won #4 in the 20-49 employees category
#Ellestedet #kvindekrisecenter #greatplacetowork #DanmarksBedsteArbejdespladser #DanmarksBedsteArbejdespladsNo4

Two days of training with the fabulous Anne-Marie are over for now. Our heads are full of inspiration, knowledge and desire to work with women in a way that gives them full ownership of their own lives. We are not the experts to solve their problems in one fell swoop. We trust that they can do it themselves. We're more of a questioner: "If we pretend your problems were already solved, what would your life look like?" Dansk Løsningsfokuseret Institut / Danish SF Institute

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On Friday we start a new cycle in the world of nature existentialism, in collaboration with the company Nature & Existence. This is with the first of 5 modules in an education that is part of a larger project of the same name - A Natural Approach to Working with Vulnerable People. The project runs until the beginning of 2025. We look forward to revisiting and diving deeper into the themes, and to our new colleagues becoming part of this process. On Friday, we will dive into the senses and their importance for our well-being, experience of the world and development.
If you are curious about the program and the project, you are more than welcome to contact us.

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Like all good families, the Ellested family has also eaten their fill and been happy this Easter.

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"You are pressured to not focus on yourself. You stop even existing. He controlled everything. Even which way to stir the cup."

This is what Anette said when she and her helper Rasmus stopped by Ellestedet the other day to talk about how she broke out of a mentally abusive marriage that lasted for over 50 years. Ellestedet has a special meaning for Anette because it was here that she "came to life". Here she learned to send an email, stir the cup in the way that suited her and, not least, she learned to have friends and people close to her again.

Anette comes to Ellestedet three more times during the spring and talks about her way out of psychological violence.

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Today is International Women's Day, and of course we celebrate it at Ellestedet.
Karin has decorated with fresh flowers in the vases. Mick has baked banana cake and Erling has hoisted the flag.
Maj-Britt is here with her guitar, singing songs written by female artists. The music reminds us
how strong we are when we support each other. Happy fight day!

#Ellestedet #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion #women #women #women's fight day

One of our residents paints beautiful pictures, which came to light at a small vernissage.

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Around 13 children and their mothers had a great time today with a cat's cradle party.

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Mental fitness and physical fitness. You can spend your time at Ellestedet doing a little bit of everything. If you want to.

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What kind of life do you want?

At Ellestedet, we meet each woman with the belief that she has the resources to change the difficult life situation she is facing. She may need a little help to dig them out, but they are in there somewhere.
In our conversations, we focus on what she wants more of. What kind of life does she want? How can we help her see the solutions to her problems instead of dwelling on all the negative experiences from the past that no one can change anyway.
The woman is already changing her life for the better by going to the shelter. It is precisely this process that we try to support by identifying and reinforcing the moments in her life where she has actually felt competent. Maybe she was good at protecting her children from the violence. How did she get the strength to do that? Maybe she was actually able to get her children to school every morning despite the difficult circumstances. How did she manage to do that? If her self-esteem is at 2 out of 10, what is it that makes her actually at 2 and not 1?
By drawing parallels from the good experiences she has, where she has actually mastered something, to her current life situation, we can help her identify her competencies and strengths. The woman is the one who knows herself best, and therefore she often has the solution to many of her challenges.
Our theoretical foundation is the solution-focused approach, because we believe that this method is action- and future-oriented. The conversations inspire hope. It is a method that centers around the life people want rather than focusing solely on the bad things that have happened. This doesn't mean that we don't acknowledge the difficult, but we always look for what is present rather than what is missing.

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A space for laughter and play

Once a week, mothers and their children have the opportunity to participate in mother/child play with a trained educator. The aim is to create a space where mom forgets for a moment that she is in crisis. She may not be fully present in her daily life and therefore not fully present with her child. Perhaps she doesn't have as much energy to play and laugh as she would like. The child, on the other hand, has an unregulated nervous system, which is affected by the mother's condition and the experiences she has had. But the desire to play is still intact.

In this room, we try to create a loving space between mother and child that strengthens their relationship. We sing, fool around and play games that the children know. The mother laughs, smiles and sees her child, who loves that she has the time and desire to play and have fun. In this way, we try to create positive experiences between mother and child during a difficult time. Moments that are so important for the child's emotional development and for their connection with each other.

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Module 4 of our program - "A natural approach to working with vulnerable people" from the company Nature and Existence - was titled: Cyclical Wisdom. The day's teaching and assignments centered around the universal cyclical patterns, as well as causal chains illustrated by a model called The Web of Life. Here the common thread throughout the program was very clear, and how the different tools are parts of a coherent life view that is rooted in concrete experiences that we all have. This makes the themes of the training relevant, recognizable, viable and useful. We are excited to use these views, insights and tools in our work with the residents at Ellestedet, so that we can continue to do our best to help them on their way in life.
We are now looking forward to the 5th module entitled: Heliotropic Mindset.

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Just below the frozen ground, spring is waiting to unfold its full life force.

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