Healing the Wounds of History Institute Presents:
Beyond Partition
A daylong workshop for Hindus and Muslims
from the Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani American Communities
Hosted By:
1590 Oakland Road,
Suite B213
San Jose, CA
Sunday, August 1st
10:00am – 4:00pm
This workshop offers Hindus and Muslims from the Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani American communities an opportunity for connection, exploration of identity, and healing through storytelling, role-play and other experiential processes.
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 MFT Trainee, supervised by Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT, MFC#28789. For more information on Ben’s background and approach, please visit www.benriverstherapy.com
Spaces are limited. To register, please email benjrivers@gmail.com or call (510) 595-5500, Ext 19
This event is endorsed by:
India Community Center, UMA Interfaith Alliance, Interfaith America,
Northern California Islamic Council and Pakistani American Culture Center
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