Tag: community

  • Interventions: Social Justice

    Interventions: Social Justice

  • Directions: Connectedness. Relationships. Community.

    Directions: Connectedness. Relationships. Community.

    “He felt as if the roots of his own life were intertwined with those of his brothers and sisters, somewhere deep down in the dark earth. Every blow that struck, every injury that ate away at the marrow of one of them was felt by all.” Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter Photo: Roland Juhasz

  • Poezja w psychoterapii

    Poezja w psychoterapii

    Im więcej myślę o psychoterapii, tym więcej widzę w niej miejsca dla poezji. W świecie dosłowności, w świecie, w którym porozumiewamy się krótkim tekstem i obrazem, w którym, im bardziej jesteśmy dokładni, tym bardziej brak nam pewności, czy inni na pewno rozumieją, co mamy na myśli, poezja daje nam miejsce na oddech, na spojrzenie na…

  • Spirituality and Healing in Mental Health

    Spirituality is an important aspect in healing community and intergenerational trauma. Over the last year, when James W. Williams, a co-founder of Numa, Inc. and I talked with the Ukrainian psychotherapists and psychologists in our supervision / introvision group “Clinical Social Work with Refugees and Internally Displaced People,” our colleagues and friends in the group…

  • Inspirations: Compassion. Lorraine Hansberry. Black Women’s Excellence

    Inspirations: Compassion. Lorraine Hansberry. Black Women’s Excellence

    “Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through learning- because that ain’t the time at all… when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account…

  • Eduardo Duran: Trauma

    Eduardo Duran: Trauma

    Eduardo Duran, amerykański psycholog i psychoterapeuta pochodzący z ludu Pueblo, ucząc psychoterapii inspirowanej kulturą Rdzennych Amerykanów przypomina, że w tradycji Pierwszych Narodów amerykańskich czyn jednej osoby ma wpływ na jej krewnych w siedmiu pokoleniach w przeszłości i w siedmiu pokoleniach w przyszłości. W systemie wierzeń Rdzennych Amerykanów pojęcie czasu i życia ludzkiego nie jest linearne.…

  • Celebrating Women’s History Month: Lydia Child, a Foremother of American Abolitionism and Feminism

    Celebrating Women’s History Month: Lydia Child, a Foremother of American Abolitionism and Feminism

    In times when so many of us pull from closets and airs genealogies of white supremacist identities, it is worth reminding that many of us have genealogies in liberal social and political movements, including abolitionist one, here in America. Going through my old files from 20 years ago, when I worked on a large research…

  • Directions: Spirituality. Unity. Belonging. Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

    Directions: Spirituality. Unity. Belonging. Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

    “I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.” Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

  • Celebrating Women’s History Month

    Celebrating Women’s History Month

  • Directions: Sympathy. Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

    Directions: Sympathy. Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

    How do we build sympathy for people who think differently than us, whose values are different from ours? What are your ways of doing it? On my side, I can tell that my profession taught me – and I learned – to feel empathy and sympathy for people who differ very much from me in…