Pasha faced serious issues with his hand. Doctors said his fingers would never recover. But his unstoppable desire for self-realization, combined with a couple of months of guitar therapy at Victory Beats, proved that nothing is impossible. We are incredibly proud of Pavel!
Volodymyr about playing the harmonica and music therapy
Volodymyr has been recovering from a serious injury for several years. We almost missed him when he first came to see what Victory Beats music therapy was like at the Superhumans center. He accidentally noticed the harmonica and decided to try it. After a few weeks of classes, he shared his impressions and plans with us.
Oleksandr about music therapy and making dreams come true
Sasha is one of the students of the DJ courses at Victory Beats and DJBuro, part of our music therapy program for veterans and war victims at the Superhumans rehabilitation center. Today, Sasha reached another milestone in his studies by playing his first 40-minute set! We asked him to share his impressions of the event and his overall experience in the classes. Sasha is persistently moving toward his dream, and we are confident that he will succeed. Similarly, we are all moving toward another shared dream, and your support of volunteers is helping us bring it closer as quickly as possible.
Victory Beats Music Therapy
In 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting one of the bloodiest wars since World War II. Over the course of more than 10 years, the war has claimed a huge number of lives, with tens of thousands of people suffering severe injuries that have led to limb amputations. Virtually the entire population of Ukraine has experienced severe psychological trauma and needs help in one way or another. One of the most effective methods of psychological rehabilitation is music therapy.
Historical documents show that this method was tried to be used as early as the times of ancient Greece and Egypt. There is some isolated evidence from the Middle Ages. However, music, as a means of influencing the psycho-emotional state, received the greatest attention with the development of a scientific approach in the 19th century. It has been shown that music can be a powerful additional method in the treatment of mental illnesses. After the First World War, doctors encountered millions of cases of "war nerves" (PTSD). It was physically impossible to treat such a large number of cases with medication. Music therapy turned out to be an extremely effective auxiliary method that allowed working with large groups of people and achieving sustainable results. The further history of the 20th century and the development of psychology helped to highlight music therapy as a separate large scientific discipline, to find effective methods of using music for a wide variety of segments of the population with different psychological and physical conditions.
Founded in 2023 against the backdrop of a full-scale war, the Victory Beats charity music project researches and develops various approaches to music therapy for people affected by Russian aggression. In particular, people with disabilities and people who have survived captivity. We cooperate on an ongoing basis with the Superhumans rehabilitation center, the first HUB habilitation center, conduct special sessions for individual groups and organize field retreats.
Thanks to music therapy, our visitors note a decrease or disappearance of phantom pains, improvement of independent falling asleep without medication and improvement of sleep, significant decrease in anxiety and significant improvement of general mental state.
In our practice, we use a whole range of approaches: relaxation, associative, joint playing of musical instruments and others. At the same time, an individual program is selected for each of our visitors to achieve the best results.
If you want to help the project or you are more interested in the topic of music therapy, just contact us. Music saves lives!
Retreats for Veterans’ Families
Superhumans Center, for participating in the Victory Beats project, has launched a series of special retreats for veterans' families. These are unique events based on a trauma-informed approach aimed at identifying and helping to reduce problems within families, building new quality relationships, even deeper understanding of their partners and children, and better understanding and accepting themselves.
The war was a strong psychological shock for, perhaps, every Ukrainian family. It brought even more challenges to those who joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and, especially, to those who returned from the front after being seriously injured and losing limbs. The family is the fundamental basis of society, and psychological rehabilitation is a necessary component for its development and overcoming national trauma.
For three days in early February 2025, seven families with children, accompanied by psychologists, held a retreat in the Carpathians in a special remote area. The participants had a number of individual and group classes with psychologists, special creative activities for adults and children, and special free time alone with nature, away from civilization and information noise.
Victory Beats acted as project partners and helped with the organization of the location and, of course, conducting music therapy sessions for adults and children. We also separately recorded a trial set with one of the participants of our therapeutic DJ courses.
The results of the event will be clear in a few months, as we have several more retreats with the group with a busy program ahead. However, in just these few days, it was very pleasant to see a change in consciousness and perception of each other among close people, a visible relaxation from the daily routine, and a greater and more positive concentration on our loved ones.
