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Cartoons for Good Mental Health

Since 2003, I have led a cartoon initiative called Cartoon Storytelling in which participants use real life experiences as prompt for a new story. Through a variety of creativity and writing exercises, participants learn about the art of cartooning while also creating a new story driven by a personal search to understand something about themselves. The stories are often motivated by a personal pain -- a response to being bullied, grappling with self-esteem issues, healing a damaged...

Message from our CEO, Ingrid Cockhren, on Giving Tuesday 2023!

Click here to make your donation today . "Giving Tuesday is a movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world." Today is an opportunity for those in the worldwide PACEs movement to use their individual power of generosity to support their communities . Today, on GivingTuesday, we invite you to show your support for PACEs Connection by making a monthly pledge of $10 or $25 a month. The gift of a monthly pledge is a way to show your support for the work that takes...

Message from our CEO, Ingrid Cockhren: Giving Tuesday 2023 is November 28th!

Giving Tuesday is November 28th, 2023. "Giving Tuesday is a movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world." Your amazing support, as members, partners, supporters & donors, this year has allowed PACEs Connection to continue to build our network to over 60,000+ dedicated members and 450+ geographical and interest-based communities . Our platform creates a safe space for all to share their best practices while inspiring the growth of the worldwide PACEs movement...

Register now for FREE 2-Day: Trauma Conference: The Body Keeps the Score-Trauma Healing Through the Senses with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

(NOTE: Copy below comes directly from promotional email. ) Nobody can “treat” abuse, rape, molestation, or any other horrendous event. What has happened cannot be undone. But what can be dealt with are the imprints of the trauma on body, mind, and soul. Join Bessel van der Kolk, MD, along with Licia Sky, BFA, LMT, in a transformational clinical trauma training. Attend and learn from one of the most renowned trauma experts - one who has spent decades working both as a researcher and...

Meet Kahshanna Evans, Director of the CRC Accelerator, on this week's History. Culture. Trauma. Podcast. Thursday, 1 p.m. PT

“The way we show up among our peers, in our communities, and in our societies will either foster a culture of belonging or it won’t. Avoidance, apathy, gaslighting, and disconnection may have gotten us where we are now, but they won’t get us where we’re going,” says PACEs Connection’s newest staff member, Kahshanna Evans, as she begins her role in helping people who want to start or revitalize PACEs Connection communities learn how to do community development. Evans brings a passion for...

PACEs Connection's Collective Grief, Collective Healing Conference Nov. 1 - 3, 2022

Grief is inevitable, essential, and universal. Like many of you, we at PACEs Connection have experienced a multitude of losses through the past several years. As a team, we have experienced financial instability, we have lost family and friends, and we have mourned our pre-Covid lives. We recognize that we are not alone. In the spirit of collective healing, PACEs Connection invites you to attend the Collective Trauma, Grief & Healing Conference. This unique and interactive conference...

Emotional neglect in marriages

This is a topic I'm extremely passionate about. Those who know me, know that any form of mistreatment/harm to a human being, especially women and children, I'm deeply passionate about. Unfortunately, going by people's responses when you bring it up and even just how women are taught generally about marriage, it's a topic our Zambian society doesn't see as anything serious, yet it is a HUGE SILENT KILLER! To make it worse, even some professional and Christian counselors dismiss the reality of...

NEW! Tune in Thursday for the PACEs Connection "History. Culture. Trauma." Podcast. Episode 1: The News Media Suck at Violence Reporting. How can media also heal?

Long-time health, science and technology journalist and PACEs Connection publisher Jane Stevens joins PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren to do a deep dive into why people aren’t getting an accurate picture about violence in their communities. In fact, the state of violence reporting boils down to this: the news media are unintentionally providing misinformation about violence. Remarkably, the basics of crime reporting haven’t changed much since the late 1890s. Essentially, it’s the...

PACEs Connection is Taking a Week of Rest

The PACEs Connection team will be taking a week of rest following the Labor Day holiday on September 6. We will be out of the office from September 7-10. We will not be checking or responding to emails or calls. We will not be publishing the Daily Digests and Weekly Roundup during this time. Although the field of positive and adverse childhood experiences has always been a stressful one in which to work, we have been feeling especially overwhelmed lately. Our capacity for feeling, both...

 
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