Sha'ar HaNegev Resilience Village

The Sha’ar HaNegev Resilience Village will be the first regional center of its kind.
A pastoral, serene space, it will provide a holistic range of innovative resilience and trauma treatments to individuals, families and community groups.
Spread across 9 specialist facilities, the Village will be staffed by a wide range of therapists and mental health professionals.

An international training and research center on site will enable formal and informal educators, practitioners and experts from across the globe to learn from Sha'ar HaNegev’s experiences, making the Village into a leading national and international hub for disaster response and resilience building.
Around 20,000 people are expected to use the Resilience Village’s facilities every year

Phase 1

Complementary Treatment & Wellness Center

Integrating Chinese medicine, naturopathy, and acupuncture with touch-based therapies such as reflexology and shiatsu. This clinic will also function as a community medical center in times of emergency.

Animal-Assisted Therapy Center

Animal-assisted therapy is an unmediated therapy, accessible to those for whom conventional talk therapy may not be suitable, such as the very young and elderly. Providing individual, parent-child and family therapy, as well as workshops and group sessions, the center will treat children as young as 5.

Resilience & Treatment Center

An emergency preparedness, response, treatment, and rehabilitation facility including treatment rooms, social services support, and innovative trauma rehabilitation spaces.

Outdoor Events Space

Including a professional stage, infrastructure, amphitheater, and seating lawns, this space will provide a vital outdoor performance venue and communal gathering place.

Workshop Space

A warm and inviting space for process-oriented workshops and therapeutic groups using tools such as movement, visual arts, writing, cooking, and more.

Phase 2

Equine-Assisted Therapy Center

Working with horses offers non-verbal approaches to therapy, including horseback riding and equineassisted psychotherapy conducted on the ground.

CARE - Center for Advancement of Resilience & Empowerment

A hub for research, training, and support for experts, educators, caregivers and therapists, specializing in trauma, resilience, community leadership and emergency preparedness. Due to the critical importance of training professionals to ensure that support is available to residents as soon as possible, activities which will later form part of the CARE - Resilience Training Center are already underway.

Arts and Cultural Center

Including a multipurpose auditorium, new regional library, art gallery and café, this center is designed to meet the cultural and artistic needs of the Sha’ar HaNegev community.