#selfcare #therapeutic #arts #trauma 2020 has been a brutal year. The Covid-19 took over our lives, isolating people en mass and nearly 900,000 live have been taken. In addition, the Black Lives Matter and associated cry for police reform have been resonating through the United States and beyond. Across the world, civil unrest grows in places like Belarus and Israel as people call out for the improvement of society and let us not forget the increasingly aggressive US preside

In mid-June, Dr. Janelle Junkin (director of community programming & research) and Ami Yares (executive director) traveled to Northern Ireland at the invitation of the NGO, Beyond Skin of Belfast. For nearly 15 years, Beyond Skin has been “enabling the Arts as the dialogue to assist the development of a more peaceful, equal and intercultural society free from racism & sectarianism.” Beyond Skin also leads an international collaborative of organizations dedicated to peace bui