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This presentation will introduce the body-mind-spirit oriented traumatic stress reduction training according to the “Trauma healing and transformation” program (Cane, 2000) of the non-profit organization Capacitar International. Holistic healing practices are classified as an adjunct or complement to standard medicine practices (Nezu, Tsang, Lombardo, & Baron, 2003) within the field of complementary alternative medicine (CAM). CAM interventions attempt to increase awareness, self-discovery, and understanding of how body, health, and well-being are linked (Nezu et al.). Cane proposes holistic healing practices as effective techniques for supporting traumatic stress reduction based on her field work with underserved and underprivileged populations such as battered women, children, and refugees in about 25 countries around the world ravaged by war, genocide, HIV, political violence, natural disasters. Based on popular education pedagogy (Freire, 1997), individuals learn how to help heal themselves and others. 
The impact of the Capacitar training (Cane, 200) needs further investigation, which led to Regina Hess’s (2009) proposed doctoral research based on a perspective of transpersonal psychology that acknowledges “the whole person, body, emotions, mind, and spirit, in the context of community and culture,” (Caplan, Hartelius, & Rardin, 2003, p. 157). The study will explore the experiences of change after the 7-month long Capacitar training with grassroots women from both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border exposed to violence, crime, and transgenerational trauma. Little information is available about the traumatic situation in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and about the application of holistic healing practices for traumatic stress release, which constitutes the primary significance of this research.

References

Cane, P. M. (2000). Multicultural Wellness Education: Body-mind-spirit practices for grassroots people. Dissertations Abstracts International, 61(04), 1311. (UMI No. 9970487)
Caplan, M., Hartelius, G., & Rardin, M. A. (2003). Contemporary viewpoints on transpersonal psychology. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2003, 35(2), 144-162.
Freire, P. (1997). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum.
Hess, R. (2009). Calling back body, mind, spirit, and nature across militarized borders: Holistic healing practices and their impact on women of Mexican descent living in the violent traumatic U.S.-Mexican borderlands. Unpublished doctoral proposal for a doctoral dissertation, Bournemouth University, School for Health and Social Care, Centre for Qualitative Research, UK.
Nezu, C. M., Tsang, S., Lombardo, E. R., & Baron, K. P. (2003) Complementary and alternative therapies. In A. M. Nezu, C. M. Nezu, & P. Geller, Handbook of psychology: Health psychology, pp. 591-614. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

 


Regina Hess (Germany/UK)
PhD-Program
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) 2006-2008
Palo Alto, California, USA
Bournemouth University, School for Health and Social Care, Centre for Qualitative Research, UK, since 10/2008
Graduate Psychologist (Dipl. Psych.)
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Integrative Gestalt therapist
(Fritz Perls Institute, Germany)
10 years clinical practice in Germany
2 years field-research and volunteer in India and Nepal
Registered Nurse (RN)

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