Healing Emotional scars
Knowledge about
Healing Communities
Resources
Restoring Humanity Workbook: Part One
The Restoring of Humanity Workbook is filled with meaningful programs, exercises, and stories that guide participants through our restoration journey. Each section helps explore what this process means, offering space after every lesson for participants to jot down their reflections and thoughts. It encourages personal growth by allowing time to reflect on key moments and lessons learned throughout the sessions.
Restoring Humanity Workbook: Part Two
The Restoring Humanity Workbook: Part Two shifts its focus to the youth of these communities. The workshops featured in this workbook highlight the transformative efforts of the Restoring Humanity project, incorporating art facilitation techniques into the healing and learning process. By providing a platform for young individuals to share their stories, the project weaves these personal experiences into the broader tapestry of the South African narrative, creating a powerful collective story of growth, resilience, and healing.
Community Dialogue
Building and Healing a Community showcases powerful testimonies from the women who have participated in our workshops. This book, titled A Delft Story, highlights the profound transformations and healing journeys these women have experienced, offering insight into the impact of our community-focused efforts.
Men’s Healing
The Men’s Imbizo centers on the healing journeys of men who have been impacted by trauma within their communities. Many of these men carry the weight of past experiences that have, over time, manifested in negative ways. The Imbizo not only provides a space for healing but also sheds light on key moments in our country’s history that contributed to these traumatic experiences. By reflecting on these timelines, the Men’s Imbizo offers a deeper understanding of the challenges men face today and fosters a path toward healing and reconciliation.
Case Studies
IHOM 2021 VIGNETTES #1
The Institute for the Healing of Memories provide space for people to be accompanied on their healing journey. Embedded in the process of living is our woundedness. We are destined to suffer in many different ways. Violence against woman is a continuous thread through ancient, old, and recent injustices contributing to the multiple woundedness of woman and the girl child in particular.
IHOM 2021 VIGNETTES #2
This case study is based on how, both individual and collective, healing processes for military veterans (MV) have been created to initiate and develop a more peaceful and just future for the MV of South African, who were active during the apartheid era. It is important to note that South Africa has a unique military history in that there are at least 10 different military formations, with an estimated 81
000 members in 2020.
IHOM 2021 VIGNETTES #3
People who attend the healing of memories workshops share many stories. Through the years we have organized many workshops that focus on a particular vulnerable sector in society. When the HIV/AIDS pandemic took hold of the country, we focused on accompanying people infected and affected
by the impact thereof.
IHOM 2022 VIGNETTES #1
“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say ‘We have done this ourselves.”
– Lao Tzu
IHOM 2022 VIGNETTES #2
This case study reflects on the impact and change that occurs when two organisations work together for the greater good of the community. It provides a background of the Institute of Healing of Memories (IHOM), and the Bonteheuwel Development Forum (BDF) based in the Cape flats township
of Bontehuewel.
Videos
