2021 Institute for Social Healing Virtual Conference: Understanding Trauma, Understanding Healing

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On May 7, 2021, the Institute for Social Healing and the Mid-Atlantic Council on Family Relations will be bringing together researchers, educators, policy makers, practitioners, community leaders and students for the presentation of research, sharing of ideas and holding space for open dialog on topics related to the broad concept of social healing. May is National Trauma Awareness Month.

Social healing frameworks view large-scale social challenges, conflicts, inequities and injustices from a paradigm of collective wounding and trauma. This virtual symposium will focus on the interconnectedness of our lived experiences. We will explore the intersect between individual and family trauma and healing with societal level challenges, values, policies and practices. As stated by trauma expert Judith Herman, “Traumatic events overwhelm the ordinary systems of care that give people a sense of control, connection, and meaning.” This symposium will focus on identifying the nature and impact of potentially traumatic conditions and preventing their occurrence; identifying, building and expanding individual and collective resilience; and identifying and expanding compassionate systems of care, practices and policies. In doing so, we hope to share information that will support individuals, families and communities in developing a greater sense of control, connection and meaning and to support a healthier, more just, safer and more compassionate society.

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of society”. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Questions? Email instituteforsocialhealing@gmail.com.