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The Kolo: Women’s Cross-Cultural Collaboration provides trauma-informed care, training and response inspiring survivors to flourish and seize possibilities at their feet after traumatic events, halting the transgenerational cycle of effects by traumatization.
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Written accounts of critical trauma and trauma healing events and practices, sorted by theme.
International Women’s Day 2020
How can we honor International Women's Day with the Afghani women? I can say to the Bosnian, Serb, Croat women, ‘Ma sretna ti zena’, as well as to the Eastern European women. How can we honor International Women's Day to the Syrian, Iranian, Turkish, Arab and African women that will let them know I have worked hard to honor women, heal trauma and that I feel for them and [...read more]
Intensified Learning- Oral Memory Traditions: Trauma Play Somatic Therapy
Intensified Learning- Oral Memory Traditions:Play While the Coalitional Play Fighting and the Evolution of Coalitional Intergroup Aggression study hits on the backbone of my kolo informed trauma care and research, it fails to point out the patriarchal hijacking of culture. Culture is created by females due to their biological and genetic capacities to birth and raise children. In fact, it is a nonkilling culture. What is observed is [...read more]
Maternal Fright
Look at the faces of mothers- you will see Maternal Fright. Balkan War 1991-94 Maternal Fright and the epigenetics: how we live through the choices we make and daily life is influenced by the catastrophic violence women continue to face. My work with South Slavic women over a ten-year period investigated the devastating impacts of war on women contributed to what I term “maternal fright.” In my words, “The [...read more]
Oral Memory Traditions- Mega Library of Memory
The explicit distinguishing of social memory or oral memory traditions of the South Slavs are actualized in a multiplicity (plastic property) of social collective communal events not separated from their love of the Moist Mother Earth. Their female bodies represented in the archeological zoomorphic Bird, Snake and Bear Goddesses attest to a dialogue with death- an existential reflection on what their life served or will serve. With the South Slavic constitution as being illuminating, [...read more]
Maternal Fright
Look at the faces of mothers- you will see Maternal Fright. Balkan War 1991-94 Maternal Fright and the epigenetics: how we live through the choices we make and daily life is influenced by the catastrophic violence women continue to face. My work with South Slavic women over a ten-year period investigated the devastating impacts of war on women contributed to what I term “maternal fright.” In my words, “The Slavic term ‘maternal fright’ is [...read more]
Maternal Fright and South Slavic Oral Memory Traditions: Biosemiotics, Epigenetics, and Somatic Psychobiology Healing Practices
Abstract: The Slavic term “maternal fright” is carved from chronic wars and violence towards women and is a form of transgenerational trauma. The forgotten conflict, the Balkan War of 1991-95 in the former Yugoslav region, resulted in South Slavic female survivors in the aftermath of war utilizing extensive cultural practices including oral memory traditions to ameliorate their experiences of trauma with greater focus on eradicating maternal fright. This review of interdisciplinary fields from [...read more]
International Women’s Day 2020
How can we honor International Women's Day with the Afghani women? I can say to the Bosnian, Serb, Croat women, ‘Ma sretna ti zena’, as well as to the Eastern European women. How can we honor International Women's Day to the Syrian, Iranian, Turkish, Arab and African women that will let them know I have worked hard to honor women, heal trauma and that I feel for them and all of their children? How [...read more]
Sins of the Father: The erasure of Females’ capacity for Epigenetics and freedom from violence.
“Biologists first observed this 'transgenerational epigenetic inheritance' in plants. [Hence my book and research about bioculinary and biosemiotics]Tomatoes, for example, pass along chemical markings that control an important ripening gene (2). But, over the past few years, evidence has been accumulating that the phenomenon occurs in rodents and humans as well. The subject remains controversial, in part because it harks back to the discredited theories of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a nineteenth-century French biologist who [...read more]
Dreams Heal Trauma-Holocaust
Kolo Self Informed Trauma Care involves female social collective, the creators of culture with corresponding oral memory traditions, a ritual science. According to many of the women elders [wise women] I worked with across the globe report dreams are the best therapists for healing PTSD. In my kolo trauma care, dreams and cup readings with Bosnian women war crimes and war survivors are cited as the source of tacit knowledge. Bosnian Cup Readings, [...read more]
Restoring Women to Cultural Memory
“Women are the Footnotes’ Footnote”- a must see video for all females – especially daughters. The influential study conducted through vast materials highlighted the invisible sex and the relationship of a certain empowerment women are naturally endowed with to that of cultural memory. This video was shared by Max Dashu, founder of Suppressed Histories Archives.
Is there only silence for our daughters?
Is there only silence for our daughters? Republish from 11-18-2007 In excavating motherhood, it is startling to realize how celebratory ancient matrifocal systems were, and that there was no lag time in responding to the needs of the female gender. In "Old Europe" (7th to 3rd Millennia B.C.E.) Slavic peoples held reverence with Moist Mother Earth. In cognitive archeology, this reaffirmed the motherhood concept and its evolving symbolism that is threaded through the generations of [...read more]
UN PeaceKeepers Involved in Congo War Atrocities
Congolese woman walks in Benin. The mass rapes in Congo DRC continue unimpeded by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. "YOU WILL BE PUNISHED" - REPORT Attacks on Civilians in Eastern Congo This 183-page report documents in detail the deliberate killing of more than 1,400 civilians between January and September 2009 during two successive Congolese army operations against a Rwandan Hutu militia, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. The UN writes [...read more]
Socks Represent the Earliest of Weavers. Women are the Weavers.
Slavic Wool leggings The 1st pair of socks recorded [...read more]
Intensified Learning- Oral Memory Traditions: Trauma Play Somatic Therapy
Intensified Learning- Oral Memory Traditions:Play While the Coalitional [...read more]
Maternal Fright
Look at the faces of mothers- you will see [...read more]
Maternal Fright and South Slavic Oral Memory Traditions: Biosemiotics, Epigenetics, and Somatic Psychobiology Healing Practices
Abstract: The Slavic term “maternal fright” is carved [...read more]
UN PeaceKeepers Involved in Congo War Atrocities
Congolese woman walks in Benin. The mass rapes in [...read more]
Her political activities define her radical nature
Wahu Kaara and Danica Anderson, Female Solidarity Wahu Kaara, [...read more]