After a “Zoom break” during July and August, the local and global network I am collaborating with seems to be going through a process of transition, death and rebirth which …
Looking back from the future, we might as well see the COVID-19 to be the global turning point, which forever changed how to relate to ourselves in global citizens of …
The Jarvis & Constance Doctorow Family Foundation has provided generous support throughout the years to ImaginAction. During this crucial time of COVID-19 when we, like so many nonprofits, were struggling, …
A good story is like a bitter pill with the sugar coating inside of it —O. Henry We all have stories; they create a frame for our personal and professional …
ImaginAction LA offered another year of writing, art, and theater games with survivors served by the Program for Torture Victims The Place That Raised Me I come from two weather …
Healing the wounds of history, Berlin, 18th September 2018 Together with people from Poland, Italy, France, Austria, Chile, Israel, Turkey, and Germany, we hold a ritual in 3 parts to …
As I learned at the symposium, Inheriting Genocide, and shared with you in the first installment, during the Armenian Genocide in 1915, infants and children were snatched from their mothers …
“When a crime against humanity occurs, all of humanity is affected,” said Christie Tcharkhoutian, speaking at the symposium, Inheriting Genocide: Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma. In that spirit, I’ve tried to …
Much of what I heard at the Inheriting Genocide symposium resonated with my own experiences working at PTV with men and women seeking asylum in the United States after escaping …
“When survivors first arrived,” said psychiatrist Andrei Novac, himself the child of Holocaust survivors, “they didn’t want to talk about it. When they did want to talk, therapists didn’t want …