7th Annual International Conference on
Communal Wounds and Victim Identities
October 18-20, 2018 ~ Amman, Jordan
Sponsored by:
Common Bond Institute (CBI)
Co-sponsored by:
Michigan State University
International Humanistic Psychology Association (IHPA)
Yarmouk University
International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA)
Endorsed by:
An international list of over 100 cooperating organizations and universities
Official Partner and Event of:
Charter For Compassion and Parliament of World’s Religions
Held in conjunction with:
- Conducting an on-site training intensive in the Social Health Care (SHC) training and treatment program – a model building local capacity for healing communal trauma and instilling confidence within the effected community.
- Conducting a Disaster Health Care Field Clinic providing comprehensive Psychosocial, Medical, and Dental services to the refugee population in Jordan
- Psychosocial Specialty Training for Medical Students
- Conducting a separate Invitational Psychosocial Seminar for Religious Leaders and Teachers to assist in identifying symptoms, basic interventions, and those in need of professional psychosocial services.
- Establishing the Bi-Regional Cross-Training program – A collaboration between German and Jordanian mental health professional groups to provide culturally adapted psychosocial treatment services to the refugee population in each country.
The Global Network for the Study of Transgenerational Trauma – a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary professional network engaged in the study of inherited, unresolved communal trauma, and the implications for violence and war within and between communities, past, present, and future.