After widespread violence and killing, we face more than individual grief. We face a collective wound that, if abandoned to silence and denial, can become helpless anger, pervasive numbness, chronic anxiety and the collapse of meaning.

This seminar is an attempt to look directly at the truth of this suffering, to understand collective trauma and the logic of grief, and to give meaning to a pain that consumes a society from within.

In grief arising from political violence, mourning can remain frozen within a nation for years. The psyche cannot say farewell, cannot create ritual, cannot accept the ending of those who have been lost. This “endlessness,” in the absence of a sense of safety, when healthy pathways of mourning are blocked and distorted narratives cast their shadow over truth, makes the wound more fragile and increases the possibility of psychosocial harm.

In this session we will speak about the psychology of trauma and collective mourning, the rupture of identity after catastrophe, “ambiguous loss” and grief without an ending, and the bitter and clear truth that healing never occurs in isolation because trauma itself never arose in isolation.

This seminar is an invitation to deep empathy, to restoring language and connection, and to building shared meaning around a wound from which, only alongside one another, we can create meaning and humane, effective action.

The Zoom link will be shared with friends and compatriots closer to the date of the seminar.