First Aid of the Soul

08/27/2026

🇺🇦 Featured Keynote | Professor Serhii Plokhii

We are so honored to welcome Professor Serhii Plokhii as a featured keynote speaker at Voices for Ukraine: Symposium & Concert on September 18 in Cambridge, MA.

Professor Plokhii is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. One of the world’s leading historians of Ukraine and Eastern Europe, his scholarship has helped audiences around the world better understand Ukraine’s history, identity, and place in the global order.

At Voices for Ukraine, his perspective will help ground our broader conversation about Ukraine’s history, cultural identity, resilience, and future.

He joins featured keynote speakers Ambassador Samantha Power and Oleksandra Matviichuk, alongside distinguished artists, musicians, practitioners, and special guests.

📅 September 18, 2026 | Cambridge, MA
🎟️ Students & Veterans: $30 | General Admission: $60
Learn more & reserve your tickets here - https://www.firstaidofthesoul.org/event-details/voices-for-ukraine-symposium-concert

💙💛 Join us for this special evening of dialogue, culture, music, and community in support of Ukraine.

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08/24/2026

🇺🇦 35 Years of Independence. A Centuries-Long Fight for Freedom.

Today, we celebrate 35 years of Ukraine’s independence — and generations of courage, sacrifice, and determination to live freely.

For First Aid of the Soul, this day is deeply personal. Our team, families, and communities are living this war. The fight for Ukraine’s freedom is a fight for our homes, our culture, our children, and our right to determine our own future.

We honor Ukraine’s defenders and remember all who have given their lives for our freedom.

Every day, we see resilience in Ukrainians who continue to care, create, teach, love, heal, and build a future despite war.

This, too, is part of our fight for freedom.

We are grateful to everyone who continues to stand with Ukraine. Solidarity matters. Ukraine’s freedom matters.

For those who came before us. For those defending us today. And for the generations who deserve a free and peaceful Ukraine.

💙💛 Happy Independence Day, Ukraine.
До перемоги. Слава Україні! Героям слава!

— First Aid of the Soul | Перша Допомога Для Душі

08/21/2026

08/17/2026

🇺🇦 Featured Keynote | Ambassador Samantha Power

“There is no greater cause than the cause of human dignity.”
— Ambassador Samantha Power, Kyiv, 2015

First Aid of the Soul is deeply honored to welcome Ambassador Power as a featured keynote speaker at Voices for Ukraine: Symposium & Concert on September 18 in Cambridge, MA.

A leading voice in international affairs, human rights, democracy, and humanitarian action, Ambassador Power served as USAID Administrator and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and is now a Professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School.

Her longstanding engagement with Ukraine and commitment to human dignity, democracy, and civil society speak directly to the purpose of Voices for Ukraine: bringing together leaders across sectors to consider Ukraine’s resilience, recovery, and future.

Ambassador Power will join featured keynote speakers Oleksandra Matviichuk and Professor Serhii Plokhii, alongside distinguished musicians, artists, practitioners, and additional special guests to be announced.

📅 September 18, 2026 | Cambridge, MA
🎟️ Students & Veterans: $30 | General Admission: $60
Learn more & reserve your tickets:
https://www.firstaidofthesoul.org/event-details/voices-for-ukraine-symposium-concert

💙💛 Please join us and help share this special gathering with your community.

08/14/2026

🇺🇦 Featured Keynote | Oleksandra Matviichuk

We are deeply honored to welcome Oleksandra Matviichuk, Head of the Center for Civil Liberties / Центр громадянських свобод, as a featured keynote speaker at Voices for Ukraine: Symposium & Concert on September 18 in Cambridge, MA.

A Ukrainian human rights lawyer and one of the country’s most influential voices for justice and accountability, Oleksandra leads an organization awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. The Center for Civil Liberties has played a critical role in documenting war crimes and advocating for the rights and dignity of people affected by Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Her voice represents an essential part of the conversation we hope to bring forward at Voices for Ukraine: that Ukraine’s recovery is inseparable from human rights, justice, mental health, cultural resilience, and the preservation of human dignity.

Oleksandra Matviichuk will join featured keynote speakers Ambassador Samantha Power and Plokhii, alongside distinguished artists, musicians, practitioners, and additional guests to be announced.

📅 September 18, 2026 | Cambridge, MA
🎟️ Learn more & reserve your tickets:
https://www.firstaidofthesoul.org/event-details/voices-for-ukraine-symposium-concert

08/11/2026

📣 НОВА ДАТА
Через необхідність перенести нашу попередню зустріч, ми раді знову оголосити про проведення онлайн-тренінгу від First Aid of the Soul (FAS)! 💙💛

📅 Субота, 29 серпня 2026
🕕 18:00–19:30 за київським часом
💻 Онлайн | Zoom

Ми з нетерпінням чекаємо на можливість нарешті зустрітися з вами та провести цю практичну сесію разом.

🔗 ВАЖЛИВО: Будь ласка, зареєструйтеся повторно, щоб отримати ваше персональне Zoom-посилання:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nVePSHeZRZuEti9FDxrQiw

Навіть якщо ви реєструвалися раніше, для нової дати необхідна повторна реєстрація.
Будемо раді бачити вас 29 серпня! Будь ласка, поділіться запрошенням із колегами, яким ця тема може бути цікава.

🇺🇦First Aid of the Soul | Перша Допомога для Душі

08/07/2026

🎹 Featured Artist Announcement | Voices for Ukraine

We are honored to welcome internationally acclaimed Ukrainian composer and pianist Vadim Neselovskyi as a featured performer at Voices for Ukraine: Symposium & Concert on September 18 in Cambridge, MA.

Born in Odesa and now a Professor at Berklee College of Music, Vadim has brought Ukrainian music and stories to audiences around the world. His acclaimed piano suite ODESA was recognized by The New York Times and named one of the Boston Globe Media’s Best Albums of 2022. His work continues to powerfully reflect Ukraine’s culture, identity, and resilience.

Vadim will join an extraordinary evening of music and dialogue featuring keynote speakers Oleksandra Matviichuk, Samantha Power, and Serhii Plokhii, with additional musicians and special guests to be announced.

📅 September 18, 2026 | Cambridge, MA
🎟️ Learn more & reserve your tickets:
https://www.firstaidofthesoul.org/event-details/voices-for-ukraine-symposium-concert

FirstAidOfTheSoul

08/04/2026

It was a such a pleasure for our founder Nathalie to join Eric on Eric Adams to talk about Ukraine, the work of First Aid of the Soul 🇺🇦 and what it takes to support communities through more than four years since russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.

We discussed community resilience, the role of the arts, supporting local professionals, and why investing in people is essential to Ukraine’s long-term recovery.

Thank you, Eric, for such a meaningful conversation and for the opportunity to share about our work.

🎙️ The episode is now live—I hope you’ll give it a listen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXLjFtKYlUY

*link in bio

FirstAidOfTheSoul TheChangeAgentPodcast

07/27/2026

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05/10/2026

We are so honored to celebrate all of you beautiful heroic mothers - З Днем матері i Happy Mother’s Day 🌹