Upcoming appearances

Healing Communities: Using Peace Psychology to Transform Violence

Sponsored by the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.

Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in Boston,
"Healing Communities: Using Peace Psychology to Transform Violence" will take place September 19th and 20th. This conference will address the contributions of psychology and other mental health disciplines to peacebuilding internationally and to healing American communities that are wracked by violence. Paula Green, the director of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, who works around the world with grassroots leaders bridging the divides of collective trauma that plague countries and regions who have lived for many years with large-scale violence (including in Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Palestine and Israel, and many other countries); Kaethe Weingarten, who founded The Witnessing Project and who has worked with witnesses to violence and violation in the US, Kosovo, South Africa, and elsewhere; and Ira Magaziner, of the Clinton Foundation are keynote speakers.

Fostering Resilience and Hope in our Clients and Ourselves, Halton Child and Family Services, Burlington, Ontario, October 24, 2008

Recent appearances

• Summer in the City, MSPP, July 22, 2008
• Fostering Resilience and Hope in our Clients and Ourselves, MAMFT, May 16, 2008
• Fostering Resilience and Hope in our Clients and Ourselves, Family Institute of Cambridge, March, 2007
• Keynote speaker, XV IFTA, Reflection, Hope and Resilience, Reykjavick, Iceland, October 4-7, 2006
• Grand Rounds, Cambridge Health Alliance, "Intercepting Historical Trauma: The Global Imperative." September 27, 2006
• Visiting Lecturer, Eastern Mennonite University, "A Compassionate Response to Violence: September 11 and Beyond", five events, September 11 & 12, 2006
• June 24, 2005 Keynote speaker at the plenary on Hate at the American Family Therapy Academy, Washington, DC
• October 29-30, 2005 St. Francis in the Foothills and the International Center for Peace, Tucson, Arizona. Workshops on the effects of everyday witnessing of violence and on hope
• April 28, 2006 Workshop on Fostering Resilience and Hope in our Clients and Ourselves, for Leading Edge Seminars, http://www.leadingedgeseminars.org/ Toronto, Canada

Selected past appearances

• September 30, 2003- National Public Radio "Diane Rehm Shaw" 11:00AM - Noon EST [Listen]
• May 7, 2004 "Second Chances in Life: Transformative Stories of Self and Society" Symposium at Northwestern University
• May 18, 2004 "In Search of the Soul of Africa" 9th International Conference of SAAMFT, Durban, South Africa
• June 4, 2004 “Belonging: Geography and Identity,” The North West Conference of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, Manchester, England.
• October 1, 2004 “Creating Futures: Systemic Dialogues Across Europe,” European Family Therapy Association, 5th European Congress, Berlin, Germany
• November 5 & 6, 2004 Workshops, Berlin, Germany