IMAGINE!
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October 24, 2010 Descendants of Holocaust Survivors: IMAGINE! Center for Creativity and Healing First, second and third generation Descendants of Jewish Holocaust survivors are invited to share and explore the impact of our historical inheritance. Through experimental methods, expressive arts and therapeutic processes, participants will give creative shape and meaning to our legacies. Join us as we support each other on our healing journies. Register on our registration page. Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT, (MFC #28789) a psychotherapist and drama therapist from Berkeley, California. Volkas is the son of Auschwitz survivors and resistance fighters from World War II. He was moved by his personal struggle with this legacy of historical trauma to address the issues that arose from it: issues around identity, victimization and perpetration, meaning and grief. Healing the Wounds of History helps participants work through the burden of such legacies by transforming their pain into constructive action through acts of creation and acts of service. Armand is clinical director of The Living Arts Counseling Center and Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology Program at California Institute of Integral Studies.Sylvia Israel, MFT (MFC #31245), Psychodrama Trainer, Educator, Practitioner (TEP), Registered Drama Therapist/Board Certified Trainer (RDT/BCT), is the founder and director of IMAGINE! Center for Creativity & Healing and founder of Bay Area Playback Theatre. She is adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and has presented at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and at many national conferences. Both of Sylvia’s parents survived the Holocaust in hiding and later with the Bielski Partisans. As a psychotherapist and as a daughter of survivors, she is very interested in how we heal from trauma and trains therapists in the use of action methods with trauma survivors. Sylvia maintains a private practice in Marin and San Francisco. |