Angela E. SoperABOUT ANGELA | WRITING FOR THE WEB | ANGELA'S BLOG THE KOLOA Community of Healing"In 2012 I received a grant from the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) to produce a five-minute documentary about a female “changemaker” in the world. The subject was my good friend, Danica Anderson, a forensic psychotherapist and international crisis/disaster responder and psycho-social gender victims’ expert for the International Criminal Court who has traveled the world working with people who have experienced trauma. Several years ago when she traveled to Bosnia, the homeland of her parents, she received the most important training of her career as she observed and worked with Bosnian female war survivors Danica watched as the women who had no money, no psychological training and no experts on hand used the Slavic circle (or kolo) of friends for support to help heal themselves. Danica went on to develop her own kolo treatment training that she now uses around the globe to help trauma victims heal themselves and stop the cycle of intergenerational violence. I am indebted to my good friend, Norman Klein, for his help with this project, along with many, many other people who donated their time and talent to make this project a reality. This is the story of The KOLO: A Community of Healing. To learn more about the project and IAWRT, please visit www.iawrt.org." - Angela Soper © 2013 The Rangewriter Co. |