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 […]
The Kolo: WCCC Trauma Care and Healing
The Kolo: WCCC cultivates capacities to employ those individual, survivors, organizations, and professionals on front-lines of trauma, including children and adults to become responders and healers of themselves and to others. Our work includes fieldwork trauma trainings, social collective building, research and conferences. Our programs evolve the response to trauma through three transformative stages: Inform, […]
Thaumaturgy
The Kolo, the Slavic folk round dance and to be in a circle is light manifesting. Note the oak tree and burning of oak- Badjnak in Serbo-Croatian. Oak Tree ─ Slavic Secret Language in harmony with Mother Nature. Powered oak bark mixed with honey heals menstrual problems. A blend of ground acorns mixed with water […]
The Yard – Memory
Research from mathematic scientist Alexander Thom’s finding of the “Megalithic Yard” form of measurement can be added to the plethora of South Slavic memory practices, the round dances (kolos), with its ethnochoreological implications of beat and rhythm movements. Thom’s study of Megalithic stone circles as observatories and astronomical machines that gave rise to the evidence […]
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- […]
Shoulder to Shoulder: The Poly Vagal Nervous System
The Poly Vagal nervous system is found in the trunk of bodies, U-shaped with branches. The Kolo (circle or folk round dance) has this tacit knowledge of how the ventral nerve branch is about equilibrium, peace and true safety found in social engagement and collectives. According to Porges, he wrote, “the Polyvagal theory provides neurobiological […]
Socks Represent the Earliest of Weavers. Women are the Weavers.
Slavic Wool leggings The 1st pair of socks recorded was said to be have been made from animal skins-Greek poet Hesido 8th century BC called piloi made from matted animal hair. The Slavic women weavers to this day gather the wool from the sheep and spin into yarn. The weaving and embroidery continues to have […]
A message from Dr. Danica Anderson, founder of The Kolo: WCCC
Watch Video Introducing The Kolo: WCCC work centering women as resources to pivot potentials and trajectories through collaborative efforts stemming the fall out of catastrophe in a world of increasing violence.
The Cultural Lens of Genomics & Genocides to Gynocides
We know more than we can tell South Slavic Women Balkan War Crimes & War Survivors & WWII Holocaust A span of sixteen years in working with the trauma survivors from Novi Travnik, Bosnia treating trauma from a forensic psychobiological and oral memory traditions approach investigates the survivors’ mastery of socially learned information and skills […]
Lepenski Vir Fish Goddess Artifact
Lepenski Vir Fish Goddess Artifact At Lepenski Vir many Fish Goddesses artifacts and graves were found reveling in the aquatic lushness of the Danube river gorges. Perhaps, as a tribute to the huge water reservoir, the Fish Goddesses were important relics for burials and a part of the architectural structures consisting of temples not residences. […]