Honor Wellness Center

This project will use an ensemble production by Faultline Ensemble to reimagine the public and municipal spaces of fire and ambulance stations as sites for collective trauma recognition and healing. Incorporating live performance, interactive discussions and a series of participatory workshops, Counting Pebbles will work with rural Connecticut emergency medical responders, their families, and their communities to process the trauma of rescue work and the impact of responder burnout on patients. Drawing on firsthand stories gathered from responders over the past ten years and created by artists, emergency responders and health workers, this collaboration will create public space for traumas typically buried and unrecognized. In healing these traumas together, the project will build relationships between communities and their rescue workers, reducing stigma against marginalized patients and improving emergency patient care for people oppressed within the healthcare system.