Historical Trauma

“Historical Trauma is the Multi – Generational harm created in an individual or collective as a result of life being changed powerfully from balance to imbalance; i.e. Genocide.”
Healing Our Spirit Worldwide Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 2002

The symptoms include the criteria for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the criteria for Acute Stress Disorder and are Multi – Generational. Underlying the symptoms is terror and a belief that death can occur without notice at any moment because it is wrong to be who we are.

This workshop includes exploring trauma specific to residential school survivors, children of residential school survivors and fostered and adopted children.