Web. Program Day - 1
September 17, 2022
Web Program Day- 2
Web. Session 1
Portland Art Museum
Summary / Abstract
Web. Session 1
Web. Session - 2
Sami Awad is a Palestinian and the Founder of Holy Land Trust, an organization established in 1998, committed to peace, justice and equality for all in the Holy Land. At a young age he was influenced by the teachings of his uncle Mubarak Awad, the Palestinian activist who promoted nonviolent resistance to the Israeli military occupation and was forcefully deported by the Israeli government in 1988 for his work.
Sami has engaged himself in the fields of nonviolence, healing collective trauma, and personal transformation work. He is one of several rising voices bringing the growing field of psychedelics into spaces of political conflict as collective trauma healing and visioning work.
Sami Awad holds an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Divinity from the Chicago Theological Seminary, an MA in International Relations from the American University in Washington D.C. and a BA in Political Science from the University of Kansas.
Sami has engaged himself in the fields of nonviolence, healing collective trauma, and personal transformation work. He is one of several rising voices bringing the growing field of psychedelics into spaces of political conflict as collective trauma healing and visioning work.
Sami Awad holds an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Divinity from the Chicago Theological Seminary, an MA in International Relations from the American University in Washington D.C. and a BA in Political Science from the University of Kansas.
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From personal to collective: ayahuasca as a peace-making tool among Palestinians and Israelis
In the spring of 2022, three groups of Palestinians and Israelis were invited to participate in an ayahuasca peacebuilding program. The invitation was to explore the ceremonial and healing space of ayahuasca through a collective intention: to ground the transformative spiritual practice in the political reality of conflict and oppression; to heal collective trauma and liberate from rigid narratives and ethos; to invite revelations and transform them into actions of co-resistance; to create a community of solidarity and care; and to celebrate life and good music together.
In this joint presentation, Sami Awad, a Palestinian peace activist and one of the leading facilitators, will present the program – tailored for this intention - and discuss the processes the groups went through. Leor Roseman, an Israeli psychedelic researcher from Imperial College London, will present quantitative, qualitative, and phenomenological research findings from the program.
The presentation will reveal how psychedelics can be used intentionally for socio-political endeavours beyond personal healing.
In this joint presentation, Sami Awad, a Palestinian peace activist and one of the leading facilitators, will present the program – tailored for this intention - and discuss the processes the groups went through. Leor Roseman, an Israeli psychedelic researcher from Imperial College London, will present quantitative, qualitative, and phenomenological research findings from the program.
The presentation will reveal how psychedelics can be used intentionally for socio-political endeavours beyond personal healing.