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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Train-the-Trainer on the Frontlines
Research Intergenerational Trauma
Written accounts of critical trauma and trauma healing events and practices, sorted by theme.
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 [...read more]
The Kolo: WCCC Presents; 2nd International Women’s Summit: Nonkilling Culture
June 19-25, 2019 Sarajevo, Bosnia www.kolononkillingcultures.org The 2019 Summit will place emphasis on; Women’s transgenerational trauma healing emerges in response to unjust conditions. In that regard, women have played a significant but invisible role, in their rights to challenge longstanding subordinate social, political, rule of law and economic inequalities, across areas of healing trauma, war crimes, war, violence, genocide, gynocide, ethnic hatreds, diaspora, refugees, race, class, sexuality, and identity [...read more]
The gorilla beating on our chests is finally visible: The discovery of Epigenetic Gene in Trauma impacting our immune system
My Kolo Informed Trauma Care has observed and understood the epigenetic influences for transgenerational trauma and body impacts. This is especially observed with my trauma work on Bosnian Muslim women war crimes and war survivors. My own lineage follows along Photographer Salgado saw the gorilla beating on his chest- Balkan War, Bosnia 1999 with these Bosnian women whose ancestors recorded a century of wars. I know why I saw the [...read more]
The gorilla beating on our chests is finally visible: The discovery of Epigenetic Gene in Trauma impacting our immune system
My Kolo Informed Trauma Care has observed and understood the epigenetic influences for transgenerational trauma and body impacts. This is especially observed with my trauma work on Bosnian Muslim women war crimes and war survivors. My own lineage follows along Photographer Salgado saw the gorilla beating on his chest- Balkan War, Bosnia 1999 with these Bosnian women whose ancestors recorded a century of wars. I know why I saw the gorilla beating on our chests. [...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.
MESOLITHIC KOLO ROUND DANCE AND LABAN SYSTEM
MESOLITHIC KOLO ROUND DANCE AND LABAN SYSTEM Tracing the Phenomenology of South Slavic Landscape and Body Movements inter- related to Laban Notation System By Danica Anderson Abstract The origins of the kolo, a South Slavic round dance or to be in a circle (Hubbs, 1993) are Mesolithic intangible heritage. Surviving exploitation as touristic folk dances only in modern day, the ritual round dance organizes what the past peoples observed and lived that serve the needs [...read more]