The Holocaust and Auschwitz…the worst destructive event humans have willingly and consciously designed happened to 'us' almost 70 years ago.
No descendant of both the involved victims and the perpetrators is spared from the results of viciousness and suffering. How will we bear our legacies? How do we encounter the trans generational heritage as fears, shame, guilt, hate and other emotions? Will it ever be possible to contain and to elaborate the inherited traumatic experiences? Can we work through these burdens alone? The Shfeya Workshop will provide the setting for the involved offspring of victims and perpetrators to engage in a necessary dialogue. We will reflect on the significant conscious and unconscious aspects of the participants' involvement, and their identifications and preoccupations with the Holocaust burden. Possible elaboration will be facilitated through the Group Analytic approach which furthers individual, subgroup and group exchanges. The emotional interactive Matrix will enable differentiated elaboration through small and large groups with mixed conduction and films of some of the difficult feelings affecting descendants of victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust. By offering this workshop, we will try to engage in one of the most challenging dialogues possible with the help of an approach we know and trust. Our endeavor is to ask and to find out together whether now we may leave the Gates of Auschwitz or are doomed to stay there forever? The Large Group
_The workshop will be held in English
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