Crossing Cultures: Consultation, Training, Psychotherapy, and Research
Pomegranate Connection is a non-profit organization focused on education and cross-cultural support for survivors of trauma. The Pomegranate Connection grew out of Turkish, European and American professionals and activists collaborating to prevent, intervene in and treat sexual and family violence. We understand that understanding similarities and differences in experiences of violence and trauma around the world increases our effectiveness. We are committed to work with survivors of violence, disaster and forced migration. Since 2013 our projects have focused primarily on migrants and trauma informed care for migrant and host service providers and communities. We consult and train to build sustainable, healthy communities for everyone, no exceptions.
Relating effectively, creatively and sustainably across cultural differences requires skill. Good cross-cultural relationships are founded on respect, open awareness, readiness to learn, and self knowledge. Culture is the process by which we define our values, make meaning and understand experience. Pomegranate Connection teaches skills to build diverse communities supporting survivors of trauma and those who want to sustain that support.
SERVICES
Trauma Informed Care training for Service Providers
Presentations and Workshops
Professional Case Consultation and Supervision
Developing Peer Supervision Groups: Pomegranate Connection Helping the Helpers programs
Certification for Trainers in Trauma Informed Care Helping the Helpers approaches
Sustainable Community Building
Learn MORe ABoUT CRoss-Cultural Psychology
Sustaining Open Hearts
Sustaining Open Hearts is a practical and active guide created from a depth of first hand experience. Written to help people working on the frontlines of forced migration, with survivors of trauma and the aftermath of violence, it’s a resource offering practical approaches, reflective exercises, and stories drawn from the experience of many diverse helpers. Therapists, healthcare providers, teachers, social workers and people who want to be helpful to people struggling with the effects of traumatic experiences will find encouraging and informative voices that illuminate a path often abandoned in lonely frustration but made sustainable when we turn toward one another. Practical, applied and universal.
BOOK: TRUE FRIEND by LEYla Welkin
True Friend is a compact self help guide for women who have been sexually abused and for their relatives, friends and the people who provide services to them. In clear, accessible language the book describes the physiological, psychological and social effects of interpersonal trauma. True Friend offers practical exercises and activities that survivors can use to help calm and soothe themselves, and provides information and advice for people who want to be helpful to survivors.
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Programs in Turkey Nar Baği
Our story began in Turkey and then expanded to other parts of Europe and the United States.
Turkish, American and European clinician trainers and consultants partner with non-governmental and governmental organizations to provide training, consultation and research. Preventing violence, empowering women and girls and building healthy families and communities.
Projects and Programs
Migrants and REfugees
Violence, war, economic deprivation and climate change increasingly force people to migrate. As people move from one place to another too often they are vulnerable and encounter violence. Host communities also fear the impact of newcomers and unfamiliar people. Pomegranate Connection trains and prepares service providers for effective cross-cultural prevention, intervention and reduction of violence.
Projects and Programs