Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World

Los Cerezos Center, Argentina

An Cosan Center, Ireland

Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World offers different levels of workshops in wellness practices for individuals, groups and organizations interested in healing the person, the family and community. In modern life many people suffer the effects of stress and violence. Capacitar workshops give people simple and effective skills, drawn from many cultures, to deal with that stress. The basic level 1 workshop is often used to evaluate and assess the needs of communities, and workshops are adapted to meet the needs of the people.

Workshops in Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World offers skills to:

• Deal with the stress of daily life
• Promote healthy relationships in the family
• Use as group dynamics for facilitating meetings
• Complement programs in mental health and community development
• Empower the health and wellbeing of grassroots people.

Capacitar modalities include:

• Tai Chi meditation, Pal Dan Gum and body movement
• Visualization and breathwork
• Active Listening and simple psychotherapeutic skills
• Acupressure for alleviating pain and stress
• Fingerholds for managing emotions
• Emotional Freedom Technique and Thought Field Therapy
• Hand massage, seated massage and Polarity
• Work with the energy system and chakras
• Other wellness modalities

Emergency Kit in 6 Languages

The Capacitar Emergency Kit, designed for those dealing with traumatic stress as well as the challenges of daily life, is now available in nine languages.  Download the document in your language and share the practices with your friends and community groups.  The practices have been used with thousands of people in over 30 countries, and have been found to be very effective for healing physical, mental and emotional stress. Send your stories of how you have used the practices to:Capacitar@capacitar.org