Workshop for Descendants of Holocaust Survivors: A Day of Reflection on the Impact and Meaning of our Holocaust Legacies

[Sylvia Israel]

Healing the Wounds of History and IMAGINE! Center for Creativity and 
Healing
present

Descendants of Holocaust Survivors:
A day of reflection on the impact and meaning of our Holocaust legacies

Conducted by
Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT
and Sylvia Israel, MFT, RDT/BCT, TEP

Sunday, January 31, 2010
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

IMAGINE! Center for Creativity and Healing
1924 Fourth Street
San Rafael, CA

$100
(Limited Discount Scholarships Available)


Workshop Description

First, second and third generation Descendants of Jewish Holocaust 
survivors are invited to share and explore the impact of our historical 
inheritance. Through experiential methods, expressive arts and 
therapeutic processes, participants will give creative shape and meaning 
to our legacies. Join us as we support each other on our healing journies.


Anout the presenters:
Healing the Wounds of History is a process in which psychotherapy, drama 
and expressive arts therapy techniques are used to work with a group of 
participants who share a common legacy of historical trauma. The process 
was developed by Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT, (MFC #28789) a 
psychotherapist and drama therapist from Berkeley, California. Volkas is 
the son of Auschwitz survivors and resistance fighters from World War 
II. He was moved by his personal struggle with this legacy of historical 
trauma to address the issues that arose from it: issues around identity, 
victimization and perpetration, meaning and grief. Healing the Wounds of 
History helps participants work through the burden of such legacies by 
transforming their pain into constructive action through acts of 
creation and acts of service. Armand is clinical director of The Living 
Arts Counseling Center and Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology 
Program at California Institute of Integral Studies.

Sylvia Israel, MFT (MFC 31245), Psychodrama Trainer, Educator, 
Practitioner (TEP), Registered Drama Therapist/Board Certified Trainer 
(RDT/BCT), is the founder and director of IMAGINE! Center for Creativity 
and Healing and Bay Area Playback Theatre. She is adjunct faculty at the 
California Institute of Integral Studies and has presented at Spirit 
Rock Meditation Center. Both of Sylvia’s parents survived the Holocaust 
in hiding and later with the Bielski Partisans. As a psychotherapist and 
as a daughter of survivors, she is very interested in how we heal from 
trauma. Sylvia maintains a private practice in Marin and San Francisco.

More Information:
Sylvia Israel (415) 454-73098 or email sylvia at imaginecenter.net
Armand Volkas (510) 595-5500, Ext 11 or email info at livingartscenter.org