Healing the Wounds of History Institute Presents:
Beyond Partition: Bridge-building for people of Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani descent
Where: Living Arts Counseling Center, 5463 College Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618
When: Sunday, October 17th, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Cost: Free
This half-day event is the second in a workshop series, offering people from diverse Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani American communities, an opportunity for connection, exploration of identity, and healing through sociodrama, the Therapeutic Spiral Model and other experiential processes. New participants are welcome.
Through this workshop series, participants will gain the opportunity to:
- share and acknowledge each others stories
- reduce fear and begin to build trust
- explore the impact of socio-historic trauma on self, family and community
- explore ethnic/religious identity and it's role in the past and current conflict
- investigate the steps needed for transforming conflict and building sustainable peace
Healing the Wounds of History is an approach that utilizes experiential methods for intercultural conflict transformation and healing of collective trauma. Healing the Wounds of History was developed by Armand Volkas, a psychotherapist and dramatherapist living in Berkeley, California. Volkas is the son of Auschwitz survivors and resistance fighters from World War II. Healing the Wounds of History has received international recognition for bringing together descendants of Holocaust survivors and the Third Reich, Palestinians and Israelis, Armenians and Turks, and other cultural groups struggling with a heritage of victimization, perpetration, and grief. The Healing the Wounds of History process helps participants transform the burden of such legacies into understanding and constructive action.
About the Facilitator: Ben Rivers is a psychotherapist and social worker with over 10 years of experience in the Australian private and community sector. Ben has collaborated with Armand Volkas in Healing the Wounds of History workshops for the Sinhalese and Tamil communities and for descendents of Holocaust survivors. Ben Rivers is an Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee, supervised by Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT, MFC#28789.
RSVP by October 3rd. To register, please email benjrivers@gmail.com or call (510) 595-5500, Ext 19
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