HOPE for a better Future

Building Collaborative Resilience in Liberia

Liberia has experienced prolonged social trauma for more than a generation. Peace is difficult, even more so when mass trauma compromises trust, stability, and development daily. As in other post-conflict countries, the path to recovery through one-on-one psychotherapy is unavailable or infeasible. Community trauma healing presents an effective alternative.

HOPE introduces mindfulness, empathy, emotional control and moral and collaborative reasoning as skills to strengthen the capacity of individuals suffering from prolonged social trauma to collaboratively find local solutions to local problems and conflicts and, together, they create better futures for themselves and their communities.