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Research and development activities
“Community Based Social Healing approach”The work of the research group of the NGO "Power of the Future"
Social healing in the community
restoration of traumatized integrity in interdependence
collective unity and individual identity. A holistic understanding of community as the primary
means and goal of healing ensures the creation of safe and supportive spaces for self-expression, interaction and acceptance of differences that lead to the stability and fullness of a shared way of life.
What is the difference between this approach and others?
Initially, we, as practitioners, used creative methods in this process, such as playback theater, drum circle, singing circle, and various forms of facilitation. Then, thanks to the Artists of Consent project, we began to explore conflictology, various practices of non-violent communication, meditation, and mindfulness exercises. This expanded our arsenal of practices for interaction, and we realized how best and what other not only verbal but also social and emotional components of bringing people together through community are available.
We see that only person-to-person support, personal support, as it is done in individual psychological practice, is not always effective, because if a person receives such help in an individual form, he or she still returns to the community, and if this community is not supportive, not ecological, and has traumatic experiences or tension. Then all the efforts made by mental health professionals are still lost.
Having analyzed how some NGOs and foundations are currently interacting with beneficiaries, as well as the humanitarian response to the full-scale invasion or the invasion back in 2014, we have come to the following conclusion:
Many international and Ukrainian organizations are working on an individual basis. Even if a group approach is used, the issue of adaptation and the formation of a community around a person, where he or she will feel comfortable, where he or she will be able to meet his or her needs, where he or she will have horizontal communication (equal to equal), is not taken into account and is not set as one of the tasks of the activities. Having realized that there is not much expertise, not many people in public organizations understand what Community Based Social Healing is, and having analyzed the world experience, we realized that this approach needs to be spread.
WE HAVE A POWERFUL TEAM:
- On the one hand, these are young scholars who know modern approaches in science and are motivated to make a breakthrough in the humanities.
- On the other hand, we have scholars who have been working on this topic for a long time, including sociologists, cultural studies experts, and philosophers,
and there is a public organization called Power of the Future, where specialists actively use such practices as playback theater, drum circle, singing circle, social art practices, facilitation, and group psychology. All this will be researched and described.
Our goal is to formalize the experience in such a way that it can be used by other public organizations, both in Ukraine and abroad, to create supportive communities that can help in the mental and physical healing of the participants involved in these communities.
TEAM MEMBERSHIP:
Motuz Tetiana - scientific supervisor of the research and experimental work on the topic "Development of a model for the implementation of partnership pedagogy based on a competency-based approach in general secondary education institutions of the Dnipro region" for 2023-2026, based on the educational project "Creators of Concord", Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of General and Special Pedagogy of the Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education of the Dnipro Regional Council
Fanagyi Rostyslav - Master of Cultural Studies, PhD student at the Department of Ethics, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyivhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8640-082X
Iryna Makarova is a chief analyst at the research company Active Group, a practitioner in the field of qualitative sociological research, co-author and trainer of training games based on the format of organizational and activity games, PhD in Economics.