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	 Walking Between Winds: A Passage Through Societal Trauma | 
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	| Posted by:  | Darling G. Villena-Mata |  
	| Title/Position:  | Associate Professor |  
	| School/Organization:  | Northern Virginia Community College |  
	| Sent to listserv of:  | SPSP, SPSSI |  
	| Date posted:  | August 21st, 2009 |  
	  
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	Dear Colleagues,
 
 
For your consideration, a publication entitled "Walking Between Winds: A Passage Through Societal Trauma" is available.  It is in its third edition. It has been used for reference as well as for training and academic purposes.
 
 
Here is the book's table of contents:
 
 
Section 1: Discovering Societal Trauma
 
 
Discrimination and Societal Trauma				  	  	   			 
 
Common Pain, Common Bridge: Adult Children of Alcoholics and Recipients of Societal Trauma	
 
Polyculturation Spectrum: Choices on the Road to Living
 
The “Don’t Rules” and Basic Human Rights
 
Intra-Cultural and Cross-Cultural Approach: Discovering What Makes Us Who We Are
 
 
Section 2: Effects of Societal Trauma
 
 
Stranger-Neighbor in Our Midst
 
Our Bodies’ Attempt to Keep Us Safe: Fight, Flight, Freeze Responses
 
Memory, Perception, and Trauma – Is it Real or is it Special Effects?
 
Boundaries: Fences Make Good Neighbors or Prison Walls 
 
Transgenerational Transmissions – The Invisible Hitchhikers
 
Revenge – Street Justice or Loyalty to a Traumatic Story?
 
TMCS and Societal Trauma – Fear and Safety Tools
 
 
Section 3: Healing from Societal Traumas
 
 
Realization of Societal Trauma: Identity and Grief Process of Individuals and Groups – Spiraling Upward
 
A Wholistic Healing Approach for Individual and Groups Experiencing Societal Traumas
 
How Societal Trauma Can Influence Our Grief and Identity Formation
 
Getting the Traumatic Energy Out of the Body
 
Ancestors’ Legacy: Heritage and Healing
 
Transforming Time From Master to Servant
 
The Fear of the Oppressed: Honoring Differences
 
Is it Me? Is it You? Is it the Way We Are Communicating?
 
Revisiting Faith and Beliefs – Finding a Bridge to Our Hearts
 
Redefining the Meaning and Societal Traumas
 
Bien Educada – A Way of Living
 
Dreams
 
Recreating Our Own Selves, Our Own Lives
 
 
Respectfully,
 
Darling G. Villena-Mata, Ph.D., Fellow in Traumatic Stress
 
Associate Professor
 
Northern Virginia Community College
 
dvillenamata@nvcc.edu
 
		
 
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