The Kolo: WCCC Trauma Trainings Heal
The Kolo Self Trauma Care Protocol is a epigenetic methodology informed, intensified and inspired by twenty years of international trauma response and healing with women’s trauma survivors of domestic violence, conflict, crisis, war, genocide, disaster.
FLOURISHING AFTER TRAUMA IS POSSIBLE
ABOUT THE KOLO: WCCC
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.
When we discover the instructional nature of trauma, we are evolving. Trauma is intensified learning.
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Research Intergenerational Trauma
Written accounts of critical trauma and trauma healing events and practices, sorted by theme.
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 [...read more]
Syrian War
On October 4, 2012, after a Syrian bombing kills five women and children in a Turkish border town, has CNN interviewing former Nation ‘Supreme’ Commander, Wesley Clark, as their media an expert. Clark states that the killing of Turkish mother’s and children, “It happens…..civilian casualties.” Citing it is a part of a broader conflict and how strategies are at work in the region, the reasoning behind the patriarchs in NATO, [...read more]
Her political activities define her radical nature
Wahu Kaara and Danica Anderson, Female Solidarity Wahu Kaara, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee/Winner 2005, board member of the Kolo: Women’s Cross Cultural Collaboration is a leading advocate for social justice in Kenya. She says: “African women are not dying for Africa anymore; they want to live for Africa.” She works for the Kenya Debt Relief Network (Kendren), the African Social Forum and the Kenya Social Forum. Her political activities [...read more]
“Why Music?” a short interview with Bosnian folksinger, Mary Sherhart
Mary Sherhart venerates the ritual practices and social memory oral traditions of the South Slavs that is often coupled with larger festive event and performances. The Kolo, (round dance or to be in the circle) is filled with the love of music and dance. The effect is to heighten festivals as fundamentally acts of commemoration and remembrance. The songs and kolos are mnemonic practices of South Slavic oral traditions that share two universal features [...read more]
Her political activities define her radical nature
Wahu Kaara and Danica Anderson, Female Solidarity Wahu Kaara, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee/Winner 2005, board member of the Kolo: Women’s Cross Cultural Collaboration is a leading advocate for social justice in Kenya. She says: “African women are not dying for Africa anymore; they want to live for Africa.” She works for the Kenya Debt Relief Network (Kendren), the African Social Forum and the Kenya Social Forum. Her political activities define her radical nature and [...read more]