GENERATIONAL TRAUMA

"Healing begins once we embrace our intergenerational trauma as Native Americans.

"We can then ask ourselves, 'What do we want?' One answer we all want and deserve is to be able to live a quality life."

-Shirley Murphy www.taspan.org

MODELS OF HEALING for Indigenous Survivors of Inter-Generational Trauma Conference, hosted by D-Q University at Sycuan (now Kumeyaay Community College), Sycuan Inter-Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation SITVR, the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, Native American Indians, and took place on April 15 - 18, 2003, on the Sycuan Indian Reservation.

Shirley Murphy, a Lakota cultural psychologist, connects with her audience during her presentation about generational trauma and tribal peoples.

Ceremonial opening Kumeyaay and Yuman bird singing, excerpts of keynote speakers Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., and Larry Banegas, Kumeyaay, Barona.

View still photographs, candid group photos HERE gballard.net.

Event Director: Shirley Murphy, Lakota, WEBSITE.

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