Personal Transformation as the Pathway to Peace
Three weeks ago I had the privilege of attending a week-long workshop on peace literacy, joined by several friends and colleagues. ...
The creative arts & healing trauma: An inner journey
Do you know how to heal? Do you know what another person needs in to heal? I have learned through my own experiences of healing and...
How Systems Potentiate Vicarious Traumatization
“This work is very hard work. People talk about vicarious trauma; my sense is that actually I have not had to deal with a lot of...
Waking Up and Growing Up
“A retreat is something that you do to retreat from all the ways that you normally retreat from your life. It is not a way to run off,...
New Years Reflections, Gratitude, and Looking Ahead
As 2016 drew to a close and the calendar page flipped to 2017, simultaneously marking both an ending and a beginning, it is customary to...
Election Trauma: The Path to Healing and Leadership
My prompt: Sharing the story about historical trauma and its expression in our urban struggle to people who have no relationships with...
Recovering Our Hope and Our Humanity
Two weeks ago, MN Trauma Project partnered with Veteran’s Resilience Project and MN Peacebuilding Leadership Institute to host Army...
How the Healing of One can Lead to the Healing of Many
My family was an immigrant family to the United States of America from Guatemala. When they came over, it was not the ideal situation for...
Joining Together to Heal Our Trauma
Sociologist Kai Erikson’s definition of collective trauma is a blow or tearing, “to the basic tissues of social life that damages the...
Healing Trauma through New Virtual Memories
In order to describe to you how PBSP psychotherapy works with trauma, there are some general features of this method I need to describe. ...
