CANCELLED – Palestine: A Community Conversation & Healing Circle
This double session (holding space for both a community conversation and a healing circle until 6pm) will provide a brave, safe and respectful space for those who are deeply troubled/impacted by the ongoing crimes against humanity being inflicted on the Palestinian people. We will gather to: share our feelings; process our emotions; engage in deep listening, guided meditation and silent reflection; and practice somatic healing techniques. Our facilitators will be: Ashira Darwish, creator of Active Meditation, a modality focusing on trauma therapy and integration that draws upon her own personal journey of healing from full-body paralysis with a severed spinal cord in 2012; and David Shaw, a founder of Santa Cruz Permaculture, deeply experienced in hosting community conversations on conflict resolution. The session will conclude with a “spoken-word harvest” by Jahan Khalighi.
(Note: this is a double session from 3:00-6:00pm)
Ashby Room, Residence Inn
March 27th | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Panelists
Ashira Darwish
Founder
Catharsis Holistic Healing
Ashira Darwish, who began her career as a journalist in Palestine and then worked for 15 years as TV and Radio journalist and researcher for the BBC, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, is the founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing, a trauma therapy project in Palestine, which uses the Ashira Active Meditation approach that she pioneered to help people suffering from continuous trauma. Her personal journey of healing from full body paralysis with a severed spinal cord in 2012 has given her a deep insight into the process of recovery, allowing her to offer a highly specialized and culturally sensitive approach to trauma healing.
David Shaw
Founder
Santa Cruz Permaculture and the UCSC Right Livelihood College
David Shaw, a whole systems designer, facilitator, educator, and musician, founded Santa Cruz Permaculture and the UCSC Right Livelihood College, a partnership with the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” He supports communities locally and globally to transform their shared future through strategic dialogue and collective action.
Jahan Khalighi
