Grief and healing are a universal experience that we will undoubtedly face as we journey through our lives. When we suffer a loss, we experience grief and healing in our own personal ways. However, we know that grief and healing are also experienced collectively as a community.
In the spirit of collective healing, join PACEs Connection and our special guests for a Collective Trauma, Grief & Healing Conference. This unique and interactive conference will provide the opportunity to learn more about the science of collective trauma and grief, in children and adults, and to participate in facilitated discussions and healing-centered practices. The goal of this communal experience is to allow us to collectively recognize our grief and engage in knowledge sharing, experiential practices and facilitated discussion to collectively recognize our grief and engage in collective healing for ourselves and those we serve.
Our special guests will share science and practices, resources and tools that can move us towards healing and hope. Please join us. Healing happens in community.
Day 1: Collective Grief & Trauma
Speakers will discuss and define collective trauma and outline the mechanisms of intergenerational transmission. We will examine past and current collectively traumatic events and the impact these events have at the individual, community, institutional and societal level. Speakers will discuss key concepts of grief and loss in children and you will gain an understanding of childhood bereavement from a developmental perspective, and learn how grief manifests at different stages in a child’s life. Culture also plays a role in how we experience grief.
Cultures throughout time have understood the ritual intelligence of stories, how stories can move and touch and transform people in ways that facts cannot. In relation to grief, relevant stories can bring listeners into an embodied experience of the cyclical nature of life, of initiation, of death and re-birth. Please join us to experience storytelling as a tool to offer the psyche roadmaps to navigate the unknown inner territories of grief and loss.
The audience will have the opportunity to engage in indigenous grounding practices and facilitated discussions with the purpose of recognizing and processing experiences of grief and loss.
Speakers: Ingrid Cockhren, Beth Tyson, Mary Ann Boe, Siobhan Asgharzadeh and more...
Day 2: Collective Care & Wellbeing
On day two, speakers will outline the science of care and promoting well-being, providing frameworks and language for exploring the notion of collective care through the lenses of Black and Indigenous legacies of family, community, and ecological caretaking.
We will unravel the mystery of childhood bereavement and learn practical skills to address children’s grief with compassion and courage. Children process grief differently than adults, and what helps them cope is unique depending on their age and history of previous trauma and loss.
Speakers will be in conversation about grief and collective care in schools. Whether you work in, with or alongside school contexts, join us in discourse, discussion and inquiry. Our most honest and revelatory conversations happen not in school board or faculty meetings, but in spaces that feel familiar, with people who’ve been there, too.
We will explore the importance of advancing bereavement care as a public health priority, as the United States faces concurrent mortality crises. Speakers will frame why bereavement is a social and public health concern by contextualizing how bereavement impacts American society. We will learn about achievements in advancing bereavement care among Congress,The White House, and key federal agencies and learn about urgent policy priorities.
The audience will have the opportunity to engage in indigenous grounding practices, somatic movement, and facilitated discussions with the purpose of recognizing the power we have to care for ourselves and others, especially the children in our lives.
Speakers: Candice Valenzuela, Beth Tyson, Leora Wolf-Prusan, Oriana Ides, Joyal Mulheron, Mary Ann Boe and more...
Day 3: Healing Collective Trauma
As humans, we are wired for connectedness and we heal through relationships. Since embracing capitalism, growth and expansion, we have forgotten the importance of relationships and our interconnectedness to each other and Mother Earth. From an African perspective, wellness is a communal affair that requires harmonious relationships between each other, nature and the spiritual world. When individual healing is embedded within a communal framework, we manifest a collective memory which allows us to realize the transformation and evolution required for true healing.
Our speakers will outline the science of collective healing and provide proven individual and community strategies to address our collective trauma, outlining how communities can facilitate healing and equitable recovery in response to collectively traumatic events and exploring systems-level practices that can alleviate collective trauma in an equitable manner. Speakers will share evidence based self care strategies as well as examples of communities coming together in their responsibility to care for one another, particularly in times of crisis and loss.
The audience will have the opportunity to engage in indigenous grounding practices and facilitated discussions with the purpose of moving to healing and hope.
Speakers: Ingrid Cockren, Iya Affo, Mary Ann Boe, Natalie Audage, Beth Tyson and more...
This is an online event. Live links will be provided upon registration. All who register for the Conference will receive a link to access the recording of the event as well as any related resources and materials.
Tickets: $99 per day, $250 for entire conference
Get your tickets HERE.
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