Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. - Jerry Cantrell
β’ Creating a Global Healing Movement β’
#CollectiveTraumaSummit
1/ Opening Event #CollectiveTraumaSummit
β’ Creating a Global Healing Movement β’
Trauma creates a sense of scarcity. Supporting each other's flourishing is critical in an increasingly disconnected world.
When we support each other's healing, we create collective generosity
1/ The 3rd conversation I listened to on Day 1 of the #CollectiveTraumaSummit this year was with @MalvikaIyer and @RubyMendenhall called Disability Rights Activism: Recovery, Resilience, and Hope.
Wow, an amazing story of #livedexperience - people will resonate with & learn from
1/ Listened to #StephenPorges today on the #CollectiveTraumaSummit - "Polyvagal theory is optimistic.... much of our behavior and many of our feelings are not genetically determined. They're not even epigenetically modified. We just get locked into different states and those..."
"Trauma is postponed experience. And, it's being postponed into, what I will call, a fake future. It's not the future, it's the repetition of the past, that couldn't fulfill itself." -- @ThomasHuebl
#collectivetraumasummit
Artist: James Aguer πΈπΈ
βI feel you feeling me.β
- @ThomasHuebl
#CollectiveTraumaSummit #WeHealAsOne
If you are from the global south working on collective healing this may useful for your work.
@KhatWoman007 @LinosMuvhu @ZainabSirad
#CollectiveTraumaSummit
pocketproject.org/current-projects/scholar...
βCollective trauma needs collective action. Itβs very hard to stand up for this as an individual. We have to hold on to each other. β
- Terry Real #collectivetraumasummit #WeHealAsOne
Engendered healing - because of the historic power differences healing does not look the same for men and women.
βThe healing for girls and women has been re-empowerment.
The healing for boys and men is re-connection.β
- Terry Real #CollectiveTraumaSummit #WeHealAsOne
"Our culture is founded on the delusion that we are above nature and able to manipulate it, whether the nature youβre trying to control is your body, your feelings, your wife, your kids, your job, your boss."
- Terry Real #CollectiveTraumaSummit
"Art liberates us from the literal. It helps us connect with the complexity of human experience, that cannot be expressed just through words. #Art is tapping into the felt sense of experience." Jack Saul, #CollectiveTraumaSummit
The pull of the WE is what is going to save us in the end" Dr. Gabor MatΓ© #CollectiveTraumaSummit @GSNAfrica
"Science... shows that itβs chronic daily stressβthrough the absence of emotional connection ... and the ability to develop that ... that actually does the biggest damage to the nervous system, the brain, and your identity."
@InnovateHealth1 @GSNAfrica #collectivetraumasummit
"[I]f we donβt measure it, we canβt bring it out into the open." -- @InnovateHealth1 #collectivetraumasummit
This is why we must continue to research and learn about how we are a society organized by trauma and how it impacts peace and security. @GSNAfrica @BelkysLopez_
"Personal and collective trauma is what drives war". Dr. Scilla Elworthy" 1/2 #CollectiveTraumaSummit
#traumainformedKE
"I see collective trauma as a world in which people lost the capacity to co-regulate with each other." Stephen Porges #CollectiveTraumaSummit
@ZahraTJuma #traumainformedKE
βConflict is necessary because we have injustice. (...) We can have fire, we just need a strong pot.β William Ury #CollectiveTraumaSummit
#Kenya we have #injustices enough -- but do we have a strong enough pot? #Kenya2022