Healing the Wounds of History Institute
Presents
Healing the Wounds of History
Descendants of Holocaust Survivors
and the Third Reich
A One-Day Workshop
Conducted by
Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT
Eva Leveton, MS, MFT
Sunday, January 23, 2011
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Living Arts Counseling Center
5463 College Avenue, Oakland, CA
$95
(Limited Discount Scholarships Available)
The Workshop
Descendants of Holocaust survivors and The Third Reich are invited to participate in a one-day workshop. Jews, Germans, Austrians and other nationalities affected by World War II and the Holocaust will explore their past as well as their common future by sharing their stories, facing their inner capacities for being both victim and perpetrator, and taking steps towards healing their personal and collective wounds. Through drama, music, poetry, movement, ritual, dialogue and therapeutic processes, participants will give shape and meaning to their Holocaust legacies.
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, 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 Volkas is a director, psychotherapist, drama therapist and Associate Professor in the Drama Therapy Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. As founder and director of the Healing the Wounds of History Project he has developed innovative programs using drama and other expressive arts for social change. The son of resistance fighters and Auschwitz survivors, Armand is committed to the understanding and taming of the potential "perpetrator" in all of us.
Eva Leveton, is a psychotherapist in private practice and a professor of Drama therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is the author of three books, A Clinician's Guide to Psychodrama and Adolescent Crisis: Approaches in Family Therapy, as well as articles and poems. Her most recent book is a memoir entitled, Eva's Berlin: The Memory of a Wartime Childhood, which recalls her experience as a half-Jewish girl growing up in War-torn Berlin.
For information and registration call (510) 595-5500, Ext 11
Healing the Wounds of History, 5463 College Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618
 |
 |
 |
|
||
 |
|
 |
|
||
