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Our Vision
A united community of EMDR professionals committed to relieving trauma and suffering, and becoming a platform which inspires reconciliation and peace.
Our Mission
Our mission is To bring recovery, rehabilitation and post-traumatic growth among populations affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the use of EMDR therapy, and to train EMDR therapists as agents of change. These therapists, Jews and Arabs, learn together and treat people in their communities, they pass on the post-traumatic growth. So that healing and reconciliation echoes out into the broader community.
Our Goal
We intend to expand and deepen cooperative learning activities between Jews and Arabs, Israeli and Palestinian mental health professionals.
How We Started
After years of activity in Women Wage Peace, during which we were concerned with the question of how EMDR therapy could be used to drive change in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2022 we got organized together in an attempt to create feasible steps. We contacted EMDR therapists from the Arab society in Israel and invited them to cooperate, realizing that they are the bridge to Palestinian society.
Since June 2022 we began meeting online to discuss how to move forward. We wanted to learn EMDR therapy together in order to initiate processes of reconciliation between communities.
In September 2022 five Israeli therapists and seven Palestinian therapists had the first face-to-face meeting in Abu Ghosh.
In January 2023 we held a first workshop in Beit Jala in which we taught tools from the world of EMDR to support trauma victims. The workshop was attended by over thirty community workers and was conducted by 7 volunteers from the EMDR 4 PEACE.
In April 2023 a certificate for registration was issued by the Israeli Corporations Authority.
