Relative Balance in an Unstable World: A Search for New Models for Trauma Education and Recovery

"The time has come," writes Anngwyn St. Just, "to expand our understanding of trauma to include the kinds of overwhelm that extend beyond a traumatized individual. If we are to meet oncoming challenges of natural and man–made disasters, war, terrorism and other forms of violence, new paradigms are needed." Dr. St. Just urges her readers to awaken to a realization that trauma is a global issue and to an urgent need to develop international, culturally appropriate, cost-effective trauma education and recovery programs based upon easily transmitted concepts.

This book offers a compelling invitation to expand current concepts of trauma to include Nature, shamanic wisdom, cross cultural, non verbal, body oriented methods, and an appreciation for the healing power of community.

Anngwyn St. Just, Ph. D., is a social traumatologist, cultural historian, psychotherapist and somatic educator who holds advanced degrees from The Western Institute for Social Research and the University of California at Berkeley. As founder and director of the Arizona Center for Social Trauma she specializes in developing multimodal, cross cultural and body oriented methods based upon easily transmitted concepts for trauma education and recovery. Through ACST-Europa in Zurich/Switzerland, Dr. St. Just offers international seminars and training programs in social trauma with special focus on the issues of men, women and war.