Watch Recording: Inspiring Minds: Live Conversations Offering Wisdom for Our Time

Healing Intergenerational Trauma

Join Aaron Stern and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela in conversation about innovative programs and approaches designed to nurture meaningful dialogue, break down barriers, and facilitate personal transformation aimed at healing the harmful legacies of the past. Artist Hawah Kasat will also present a spoken word piece.

Event Details

Date: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022

Time: 11:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Location: Zoom

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Unresolved trauma and harmful belief systems are handed down through generations, perpetuating racial and social injustice and cycles of violence. In this episode, we’ll explore the African philosophy of Ubuntu, which laid the groundwork for healing in the aftermath of apartheid in South Africa. Presenters Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Aaron Stern will share innovative programs and approaches designed to nurture meaningful dialogue, break down barriers, and facilitate personal transformation aimed at healing the harmful legacies of the past. Along with a spoken word piece from Hawah Kasat, the episode will explore:

How to create safe spaces where intergenerational healing can take place, rooted in an understanding of our interconnection?
What is the role of wisdom traditions, storytelling, and the arts in building resilience and leadership skills among today’s youth?

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Aaron Stern

Founder and President

Aaron Stern, president and founder of the Academy for the Love of Learning, is a musician, teacher, and internationally recognized consultant on learning.

As the Academy’s creative and educational leader, Stern designs and directs the Academy's core curriculum and faculty, guides program development, and offers select trainings in depth facilitation and diverse aspects of the Academy’s pedagogy.

During the early 1980s, Stern served as Dean of the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. It was here that he began to focus on learning and educational processes, developing creative, experiential curricula that won national acclaim.

It was during that time that Stern re-met his mentor, musician Leonard Bernstein, and the two embarked upon an intense 10-year collaboration. Stern had already begun to imagine a new institution focused on learning and their conversations and shared experiences further informed Stern in his quest to find ways to awaken, nurture, and sustain a life-long love of learning as a means to becoming more fully human. This early work laid the foundation for what is now the Academy for the Love of Learning, founded by Stern in 1998.

Today, Stern conducts programming in Santa Fe, consultancies and seminars throughout the United States and other parts of the world, and serves as a member of the Board and Fellow of the Mind & Life Institute, co-founded by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Aaron Stern is involved with Living Story Collaborative, The Power in Story, El Otro Lado in the Schools, Ventana, Certificate in Learning as a Practice, Research and Resources, Foundational Studies and Practices, Inspire Santa Fe, The “I / We / It” Framework, Leading By Being ®, Institute For Living Story, Teacher Renewal, Learning Field, Institute for Teaching, Teacher Renewal Summer Institute & Wisdom Circle

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

PhD

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a professor and South African National Research Foundation Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma at Stellenbosch University, focuses her research on trauma in the aftermath of gross human rights violations and on remorse and forgiveness that emerge in victim-perpetrator dialogues. Her work explores the transgenerational repercussions of apartheid and considers, in the wake of recent nationwide students’ protests in South Africa, whether notions of forgiveness and reconciliation carry the same meaning for the post-apartheid generation as they did during the transition after apartheid.

Gobodo-Madikizela earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Cape Town. Among her honors are an honorary doctorate of theology from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, an honorary doctorate of law from Rhodes University, and a Christopher Award and the Alan Paton Award for her first book, A Human Being Died that Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness (Houghton Mifflin, 2003).

Hawah Kasat

Artist

Hawah Kasat is an artist, author, educator, yoga instructor, community organizer, and non-profit leader. He has dedicated his life to teaching about solutions to violence and ways to peace, and has traveled to over 42 countries to facilitate interactive workshops, host dialogues, perform poetry, teach yoga, and speak with those interested in creating a caring, sustainable, and equitable world. Hawah, is a certified Yoga Instructor, who was trained and certified in Sivananda Yoga at the Yoga Vidya Gurukul, a world-renowned teacher training college in India. He holds a second certification in the Jivamukti Yoga School and also holds a certificate from The Center for Mind Body Medicine in trauma relief and healing. Hawah has been regularly featured as a speaker, performer and workshop presenter for People to People International, the Congressional Youth Leadership Council and the Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom Schools. He has made appearances on XM National Satellite Radio, BBC, Fox News, CNN, Al Jazerra, and the Pacifica Radio Network. He has also been a guest speaker at Yale University, George Washington University, U.C.L.A., University of Colorado, Rollins College, University of Maryland, Georgetown University, and Brown University.