In Kutaisi on June, 9 group and 6 individual psychological counseling meetings were held. Totally - 65 beneficiaries presented. The main topic is how to get rid of negative feelings for regulation inner family relationship and prevention of domestic violence. As noted, a person seeks to avoid pain, unpleasant emotions. If you try to drive away some feelings, the effect will be short-term, and then the pain will increase. It is better to find the source of pain, recognize the pain and start working on changing the way of thinking.

On May 1, a lawyer of the fund “Sukhumi” held a meeting at Tskaltub Women Support Center.

May 3 - Khurcha Women Support Center / Co-organized a meeting with a lawyer at the school in Ganmukhuri village (Zugdidi municipality).

May 5 - the meeting was held in Poti Women Support Center.

On May 11 - the women met a lawyer at Senaki Women Support Center.

May 15 - on the initiative of Kutaisi Women Support Center, the meeting took place in the library No. 17.

On May 16, the women attended a legal information and consultation meeting at the Khopni Women Support Center.

At the meetings following issues were discussed: the law "On the suppression of domestic violence, the protection of victims of domestic violence and their assistance", domestic law, human rights. And Individual consultations were given on registration of agricultural land, inheritance, labor migration.

Women Support Centers of Poti, Kutaisi, Khoni and Khurcha (Zugdidi Municipality) organized regular psychological group information and consultative meetings.

For the talks, an actual topic was proposed - the victim's complex, the reasons and how to get rid of the violence in the family.

As noted, there are people who, even under very favorable circumstances of life, feel unhappy. It would seem that they all have: family, children, and work, but they constantly complain about life. There are people who seem to be attracting trouble to themselves. The victim complex unites all these people. The psychologist conducted important work with the participants in order to overcome the victim's complex.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)

The psychological meetings in Tskhaltubo, Poti and village Ivandidi (Khoni Municipality) were attended by 3 people.

The main topic of the meeting - the risk of suicide in a violent environment, traces of trauma and suicide prevention. A goal - to educate women to avoid fatal results of violence.

The phrases "I'm tired, I do not want to live, to commit suicide and see what happens to you" - passive thoughts which are unconscious signals of people claiming salvation, and therefore they should not be left unattended.

The meetings were held in an interactive format. The topic appeared interesting and important for all participants. Especially in Ivandidi, since the villagers had the sad experience of suicide in rural areas.

In WSCs of Senaki, Kutaisi and Khurcha (Zugdidi municipality) during the January there were held psychological group meetings on the topic: “Combating and control against negative emotions and stresses.” This is one of the preventive measures of domestic violence.

The reasons, which cause violence are numerous: troubles in personal life, problems at work, conflicts with family, unpaid loans, complexes and phobias. On the advice of a psychologist, without an analysis of these reasons it is impossible to overcome stress.