Healing the Wounds of History & International House, UC Berkeley

 
We invite Sinhalese, Tamil, and Sri Lankan Buddhist, Hindu,
Muslim and Christian participants to:
 
Healing Sri Lanka
 
 
 
Reaching Out In the
Midst of Fear and Mistrust
 
A free, daylong workshop for the diverse Sri Lankan communities to contribute to a peace process in Sri Lanka
 
Facilitated by
Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT

International House
at the University of California- Berkeley
2299 Piedmont Avenue

Sunday, March 7
 9:30am – 5:00pm

The Workshop
This workshop is a pilot project in advance of an arts-based peace-building initiative in Sri Lanka planned for April 2010. We invite members of the Sinhalese, Tamil, and Sri Lankan Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities to participate as emotional pioneers in a process that aims to uncover the emotional steps necessary to move towards peaceful co-existence and mutual respect. This workshop is the second in a series of three conflict transformation initiatives developed in partnership with Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.
Healing the Wounds of History
Healing the Wounds of History is a process in which experiential techniques are used to work with a group of participants who share a common legacy of historical trauma. The process was developed by Armand Volkas, a psychotherapist and drama therapist from Berkeley, California. Volkas is the son of Auschwitz survivors and resistance fighters from World War II. He was moved by his personal struggle with this legacy of historical trauma to address the issues that arose from it: identity, victimization and perpetration, meaning and grief. Healing the Wounds of History has received international recognition for its work in bringing together descendants of Holocaust survivors and the Third Reich, Palestinians and Israelis, Chinese and Japanese on their legacies of World Work II, Armenians and Turks, and other cultural groups struggling with a heritage of victimization, perpetration, grief, and a crisis of meaning. Healing the Wounds of History helps participants work through the burden of such legacies by transforming their pain into understanding and constructive action.

For more information or to register, email info@livingartscenter.org
Or, call (510) 595-5500, Ext 22

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