Healing Trauma in Wartime: Dreams, Symbols and Transcultural Wisdom with Dr. Jorge Burmeister and Dr. Gaea Logan\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
On December 13, 2025, over 145 participants gathered for a two-hour workshop titled <\/span>Healing Trauma in Wartime: Dreams, Symbols and Transcultural Wisdom<\/span><\/i>, co-sponsored by the IAGP Social and Collective Trauma Committee and the International Institute for Trauma Studies in Ukraine. Held in tribute to the late Dr. Earl Hopper, the workshop honored his profound contributions to group analysis, the social unconscious, and the fourth basic assumption of incohesion. Co-facilitated by Dr. Jorge Burmeister and Dr. Gaea Logan, the session offered a powerful integration of theory and practice, weaving insights from Gordon Lawrence\u2019s Social Dreaming Matrix, Jung\u2019s transcendent function, other contributors to the field, and the realities of collective trauma in wartime.<\/span><\/p>\n The matrix opened with dream motifs of a dark world: violence, threat, killing, torture, silenced grief, trusted guides, and the river that carries us. These images revealed the raw textures of the social unconscious in times of rupture. The facilitators’ poetic synthesis, <\/span>Circling the Holy Mountain<\/span><\/i>, offered participants a symbolic container- invoking images of swampy paths, raging minotaurs, destroyed bridges, navigating by the sun, Lucia\u2019s day of light, and finding the path in the dark of night. The session affirmed that collective dreaming can restore connection, community, and a sense of relational home- revealing transcultural wisdom still alive beneath the rubble.<\/span><\/p>\n Circling the Holy Mountain<\/span><\/p>\n from a dream matrix on the front lines of trauma<\/span><\/p>\n Even if it’s true<\/span><\/p>\n that a mountain can be high<\/span><\/p>\n and the way full of swamps,<\/span><\/p>\n with no ray of light<\/span><\/p>\n and no hope.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if<\/span><\/p>\n the violence enters us<\/span><\/p>\n with all its killing,<\/span><\/p>\n its pain, its torture.<\/span><\/p>\n And our tears<\/span><\/p>\n fall down<\/span><\/p>\n while we are crying.<\/span><\/p>\n Still,<\/span><\/p>\n there is the river<\/span><\/p>\n with Gaea,<\/span><\/p>\n her dog<\/span><\/p>\n and her canoe<\/span><\/p>\n waving for us to come cross<\/span><\/p>\n repairing what was broken.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if a bull comes<\/span><\/p>\n raging,<\/span><\/p>\n my father<\/span><\/p>\n can show us how to tame the beast,<\/span><\/p>\n if only a little.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if the beast turns into<\/span><\/p>\n a man, searching for eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n searching for home,<\/span><\/p>\n a dog will be waiting,<\/span><\/p>\n offering his tenderness.<\/span><\/p>\n And even if<\/span><\/p>\n the door is wrong,<\/span><\/p>\n and we fail<\/span><\/p>\n to find safety,<\/span><\/p>\n or fail to find a home at all.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if violence<\/span><\/p>\n has already taken our bridge,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n not everything<\/span><\/p>\n will be destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n Even if<\/span><\/p>\n a little bit of pain<\/span><\/p>\n spreads into endless time,<\/span><\/p>\n and our home<\/span><\/p>\n is fallen into ashes.<\/span><\/p>\n We can create<\/span><\/p>\n for our parents<\/span><\/p>\n a home in our hearts,<\/span><\/p>\n and wear their ring<\/span><\/p>\n with pride<\/span><\/p>\n wherever we will go,<\/span><\/p>\n because on Lucia\u2019s day,<\/span><\/p>\n we receive the lessons of the light:<\/span><\/p>\n That it is simply good<\/span><\/p>\n to celebrate<\/span><\/p>\n the change of seasons,<\/span><\/p>\n to stand and play<\/span><\/p>\n in heavy winds,<\/span><\/p>\n to jump<\/span><\/p>\n through swampy roads.<\/span><\/p>\n That it is even better<\/span><\/p>\n not to climb the peak,<\/span><\/p>\n but to circle on the<\/span><\/p>\n ground around the<\/span><\/p>\n holy mountain.<\/span><\/p>\n To see<\/span><\/p>\n the sun behind the clouds,<\/span><\/p>\n If we follow<\/span><\/p>\n our hearts.<\/span><\/p>\n To go<\/span><\/p>\n with bravery,<\/span><\/p>\n with courage<\/span><\/p>\n along our way.<\/span><\/p>\n And to finally discover<\/span><\/p>\n that even ashes<\/span><\/p>\n can bring<\/span><\/p>\n new life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Healing Trauma in Wartime: Dreams, Symbols and Transcultural Wisdom with Dr. Jorge Burmeister and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":8739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,46,113],"class_list":["post-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affiliate-events","category-news","category-recent-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n