Healing the Wounds of History
presents
Descendants of
Holocaust Survivors
A day of reflection on the impact
and meaning of our Holocaust legacies
Conducted by
Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT
and Sylvia Israel, MFT, RDT/BCT, TEP
Sunday, October 24, 2010
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
IMAGINE! Center for Creativity and Healing
1924 Fourth Street
San Rafael, CA
$100
Workshop Description
First, second and third generation Descendants of Jewish Holocaust survivors are invited to share and explore the impact of our historical inheritance. Through experiential methods, expressive arts and therapeutic processes, participants will give creative shape and meaning to our legacies. Join us as we support each other on our healing journies.
Healing the Wounds of History is a process in which psychotherapy, drama and expressive arts therapy 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, MFT, RDT/BCT, (MFC #28789) 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: issues around identity, victimization and perpetration, meaning and grief. Healing the Wounds of History helps participants work through the burden of such legacies by transforming their pain into constructive action through acts of creation and acts of service. Armand is clinical director of The Living Arts Counseling Center and Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology Program at California Institute of Integral Studies.
Sylvia Israel, MFT (MFC 31245), Psychodrama Trainer, Educator, Practitioner (TEP), Registered Drama Therapist/Board Certified Trainer (RDT/BCT), is the founder and director of IMAGINE! Center for Creativity and Healing and Bay Area Playback Theatre. She is adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and has presented at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Both of Sylvia’s parents survived the Holocaust in hiding and later with the Bielski Partisans. As a psychotherapist and as a daughter of survivors, she is very interested in how we heal from trauma. Sylvia maintains a private practice in Marin and San Francisco.
Call (510) 595-5500, Ext 11
or email info@livingartscenter.org
for more information.
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