Maji Hailemariam, PhDさんのイラストまとめ

20/ This year (2021) we have adapted Kumekucha to become Kumekucha Quest for young people 10-24 years old as a program for community prevention for young people. Community care (i.e. prevention) continues to be a missing element in the MH infrastructure in 🇰🇪.

14/ From Morning Star, we learned people must own their own healing agenda. Outsiders can't drive healing processes. The GSN approach is founded on the notion people must own their own healing agenda, Local & Indigenous knowledge & rituals must be a part of healing processes.

11/ We began using watercolor paintings when we realized most women were illiterate. The images opened up a new door to storytelling & we realized the use of paintings enhanced the healing process. The storytelling & images allow people to see themselves & their lived experiences

9/ The Quraca Nabadda (Tree of Peace) initiative was developed by the Wajir Peace University Trust, @Soyden_network, @Mo2Yahye, artist Abdullahi Abdirahman "Alif" and @angiyo58 in 2013. We saw #socialhealing as more than a project but as a social movement for transformation.

3/ so that people can live more full & peaceful lives as individuals & communities. A healing process is the first and fundamental step towards building peace, wellbeing, & prosperity for all humans. @GSNAfrica fills the gap between peacebuilding, mental health, & development,

2/ We use storytelling, watercolor paintings, & embodied practices to help people articulate their pain, abuse & violence they have experienced & recognize how these injustices shape their behavior. Then we use these methods to unlock new ways of thinking, behaving, & feeling,

13/ officers my anger and pain turned into positive energy. Instead of fantasies of revenge, I began dreaming of rebuilding relationships with the police. To date, at my home in Lamu, I continue to work on community-police relations. Healing is a journey, but today I feel safer,

4/ “Who says he is my master?

Show him to me. I’ll teach him who rules the forest!” “Come along then,” said the hare.

The hare looked into the river. “He was here just now,” he said. The green leopard looked in, and at the bottom, he saw what looked like a green leopard

3/ and asked what was wrong, and fed you because you were hungry and there wasn’t enough food at home. It’s the iman who noticed you were at church every evening and gave you the responsibility to organize things at the mosque and that is how you got involved in

6/ What may be a normal emotional response to injustice & violent experience, can be viewed as something that is a disorder & needs to be externally fixed. This can invalidate the experience of the individual & places responsibility for change on the individual