A space to restore.
Through community.

I am Daryna, the initiator, co-founder, and guardian of the “Vidnova by Community” project, as well as a manager of sociocultural initiatives at MC6 Creative Residency. I gently accompany the Vidnova project from idea to implementation: I work on program iterations, communicate with participants and partners, care for a space of warmth, trust, and safety both within and beyond the community, and support psychotherapeutic processes and artistic practices.

I have my own artistic identity in visual art and poetry; for me, creativity is an integral part of the process of self-awareness and recovery.

I care deeply about a horizontal plane of trust and the creation of a contemporary Ukrainian community — open, inclusive, one in which we would want to live, the creation of a “common home.” I believe that through the experiences and challenges we encounter in the program, we can grow both personally and as a society.

I’m Olha Sukha, an architect, co-founder of Creative Residence MC6, and co-creator of the Vidnova-Spilno-to-you (“Renewal through Community”) project. For over ten years, I’ve been developing MC6 as a living environment where people, culture, and nature meet. My architectural practice has taught me to see the environment as an integrated system. Space is not just a physical container. It shapes how we feel, how we relate to one another, and our capacity to restore ourselves.

In my work, I bring together people, space, and local context as parts of a single process. For me, creating an environment is about more than function or comfort. It’s about shaping the conditions for safety, belonging, connection, and transformation.

I’m Brett Hill, often known as Brother Hill, a folk singer-songwriter, Qigong teacher, and co-founder of Vidnova-Spilno-to-you, a recovery program for Ukrainian defenders. I first came to Ukraine in 2020 as a traveling musician with the international folk music project Slavalachia.

I perform original and traditional music from North America and Europe, singing songs handed down from my ancestors and writing new ones to pass on to my descendants.

Since 2023, my colleagues at Creative Residence MC6 and I have been running the Vidnova program, where I sing with participants and lead a daily Qigong practice to support their mental, physical, and spiritual recovery. The Qigong program I teach combines ancient Chinese elemental Qigong, Shaolin kung-fu warm-ups, and guided meditation. It helps deepen our sense of grounding, connect the body with its environment, and bring mind and body into full presence.

I’m Inna Falkova. At Vidnova, I work as a psychotherapist. I create space to support mental well-being and nervous-system regulation, so that together we can tend to what needs restoring: bring fragmented parts back into wholeness, rebuild boundaries and sources of support, and take a careful look at what is valuable in life and the meanings that guide us. In this way, we can better understand how and where to move forward, and view the events of our lives from different perspectives.

I work with trauma and post-traumatic growth. Together with you, I facilitate group therapeutic circles, and individual psychotherapy support is also available to each participant.

My work is integrative and includes body-based and somatic practices, modelling of life situations, and art therapy.

I bring professional skills to this work, while remembering that, first and foremost, we meet as one human being with another. Together, we explore how life expresses itself and what may be possible.

I also dedicate part of my time to artistic practice. I love my work.

I’m Katrya Kovalevska, a rehabilitation specialist and osteopath. At the Vidnova retreats, I assist with group psychological sessions and work with the body through craniosacral therapy.

My work focuses on easing physical tension, supporting relaxation and rest, and helping participants reconnect with their bodies.

You can also come to me for long, meaningful conversations, or simply for shared silence. And if you need a warm, friendly hug, I’m here for that too.

I’m Yaroslava Tsetnar, an artist: an actor, singer, observer of beauty in the world, traveler, keeper of silence, adventurer, craftswoman, and a person learning how to live.

At Vidnova, I:

• Assist in therapeutic circles
• Make hand-molded beeswax candles with participants and sing with them, too
• Am learning to sleep and rest in between work

I’m Yulia Hekhman, a ceramic artist, visual artist, and mindfulness instructor. I love life, people, and the process of creating.

At Vidnova, I lead a clay session where we explore the material through touch, movement, curiosity, and pleasure. There’s no demand to do anything “right” or to produce a particular result.

It’s important to me to create a space where you can slow down, tune in to yourself, play with clay, and simply be in the process.