The Annual
International Conference on Transgenerational Trauma,
and the
Global
Network for the Study of Transgenerational Trauma
it is intended to foster and support, is a long term
undertaking to promote a concerted, expanding investigation
of Transgenerational Trauma and effective, practical ways to
address the need for healing and prevention. Our view is this
project is of fundamentally shared relevance and immediate importance
to the entire world community, and can benefit most from a diverse
consortium of experienced, creative, and dedicated professional
partners. The extent of this particular initiative and the very
nature of the issue also demands that more than one cultural
or disciplinary eye be represented at the operational, programmatic,
and participation levels.
There are a number of individuals and organizations around
the world who to various degrees are and have been exploring
these dynamics. However there exists no central, multi-disciplinary
nexus that allows this work to collect, build upon itself, and
catalyze for the mutual benefit and availability to all. We
believe that by working together in concert - by sharing research,
insights, and knowledge, encouraging allied scholarly and practical
investigation, and jointly developing effective cross-cultural
models and methodologies for application, we can best and most
expeditiously advance the understanding, healing, and prevention
of these historical and perpetual elements of conflict and harm
in our global relationships, and in doing so best advance a
true and sustainable culture of peace and compassion, locally
and globally.
Strategic
partnership offers the benefits of shared expertise,
skilled human resources, and financial resources necessary to
developing the conceptual frame of this project, creating knowledge
sharing vehicles and channels, designing and producing content
- including training programs, publications, and actionable
recommendations, and building a logistical structure for efficiently
facilitating this collaborative process.
By nature, Common Bond Institute and the International Humanistic
Psychology Association are fundamentally collaborative, and
are in the process of forming such a consortium.
We
invite interested co-sponsors and partners to this endeavor
to contact us at:
Common Bond Institute
Attn: Steve Olweean
Email: SOlweean@aol.com Tel/Fax:
269-665-9393
Land mail: 12170 S. Pine Ayr
Drive, Climax, Michigan, 49034, USA