The practice of meditation within a cultural and wisdom tradition has been shown to help refugees heal these invisible wounds of trauma.
In 2019, the UN refugee agency reported 26 million refugees and over 4 million asylum-seekers worldwide. We need a public mental health response to help forcibly displaced individuals to heal from trauma.
Meditatio is convening leaders in the field of meditation, mind-body medicine, and global mental health to explore meditation as a healing response to trauma. All those interested in learning about the healing practice of meditation and an effective way of sharing with refugees and other survivors of trauma are welcome to attend.
MEDITATION AS A HEALING RESPONSE TO TRAUMA. AN ONLINE SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP ON THURSDAY 15 AND FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER WITH LAURENCE FREEMAN OSB, DR GREGORY FRICCHIONE, DR RICHARD MOLLINA AND OTHERS
Thursday: Symposium – The Art and Science of Meditation as a Healing Response to Trauma
Presenters
Laurence Freeman OSB, Director of World Community for Christian Meditation and of Bonnevaux Centre for Peace, Marçay, France
Gregory Fricchione MD, Associate Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and the Chester M. Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry at MGH, Boston, Massachusetts
Richard Mollica MD MAR, Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts
Ashok Gurung MA, Biomedicine, Researcher, Co-Founder Bhutanese Community of Pittsburgh, Mental Health First Aid instructor and meditation group leader, Pittsburgh, PA
Friday: Workshop – Developing a Meditation Support Group for Refugees and Asylum-seekers
Presenters
Timothy Kelly MA MSW, Meditatio Council, Program Specialist, Office of Refugee Resettlement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
Marie Carlson PhD, Clinical Psychologist at the Center for Survivors of Torture, Austin Texas
Ailsa Adamson, Project Manager of Methodist Asylum Project (MAP) in Middlesbrough, England
Giovanni Felicioni, Associate Director, Bonnevaux Centre for Peace, Marçay, France
Odile Boekwa, Center for Survivors of Torture, Meditation Support Group, Austin, Texas
