Events
Slavery's Legacy: A Workshop on Intergenerational Trauma and Healing with Belvie Rooks and Thomas DeWolf
Apr 22 2011
Part of our series
CONVERZATIONS THAT MATTER
Healing the Wounds of Intergenerational Trauma
Generous support for this series is provided by Kaiser Permanente
"The great discovery of contemporary cosmology is that the universe, for fourteen billion years, has been working to bring forth vibrant Earth Communities. Our human role in this profound process is the healing of personal and collective wounds so we might revel ever more deeply in the magnificence of our differentiated unity."-Brian Swimme
Tom DeWolf and Belvie Rooks will guide participants in a deeply personal, shared exploration of woundedness and the potential for healing and reconciliation stemming from their exploration of their shared lineage of slavery and it's lingering impact. This interactive workshop will focus on personal stories, journeys and family histories as the pathway for a deeper inter-active dialogue about inter-generational trauma and healing.
They will be joined by Dr. Dan Booth Cohen, an internationally acclaimed trans-generational Healing Facilitator. Workshop participants will also get a preview of a living "model" of healing from the from the present-day impacts of the historic trauma of slavery and racism as Tom shares excerpts and insights from his next book, co-written with Sharon Morgan (Beacon Press, 2012).
Belvie Rooks weaves together spirituality, feminism, ecology, and social justice with a passion for engaged dialogue. She cofounded Growing A Global Heart, a project to plant a million trees along the transatlantic slave route to honor the millions of lives lost. Her published works have appeared in a number of books and anthologies including: The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult by Alice Walker; Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart; Paris Connections: African-American Artists in Paris, an American Book Award winner.
Thomas Norman DeWolf is the author of Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History. He is featured in the Emmy-nominated documentary Traces of the Trade. His next book, co-written with Sharon Leslie Morgan, will explore the healing journey of two people, one black and one white, confronting together the trauma of historic slavery and racism. Gather at the Table will be published by Beacon Press in 2012.
Dr. Dan Booth Cohen works with fields of collective intelligence to access the ancestral memories of individuals, families, an larger groups. He is the author of, I Carry My Heart in Your Heart. Using the Systemic Constellation process. Dr. Cohen will show workshop participants how to perceive transgenerational knowledge and wisdom. These fields extend beyond the specifically personal to touch the inherited collective traumas that remain active in the unconscious mind. According to Dr. Cohen, "We do not need to languish or despair over these legacies, but we do need to contact and see them clearly to become active participants in creating new models of healthy social behavior."
Event Details
Friday, April 22, 2011
10:00AM - 3:00PM
CIIS Main Building
1453 Mission Street, San Francisco
$50/$40 Members and CIIS Community
Free for CIIS students
ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSED - TICKETS AT THE DOOR
Other Events in this series include:
January 17 - Compassion in Action: A Buddhist-Muslim dialogue, with Roshi Joan Halifax and Daisy Khan
February 10: Healing the Soul Wound: Native American Postcolonial Psychology, with Eduardo Duran
April 21 - Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, with Dr. Joy DeGruy
