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Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World

CAPACITAR International

ColombiaAppalachia

Honduras

Capacitar is an international network of solidarity and empowerment.

Capacitar means to empower, to encourage, to bring each other to life.

CAPACITAR began in 1988 as a response to war, disasters and trauma in solidarity with the people of Nicaragua.

Simple wellness practices empowered grassroots people to deal with the poverty, violence and trauma of their lives.

Cantera Batahola

Nicaragua

Rivas

WHERE WE WORK: Capacitar has offered programs for professionals and grassroots people in:

UNITED STATES: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin

CANADA: Toronto, Vancouver/Victoria, Winnepeg

CENTRAL AMERICA: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,

Nicaragua SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,

Colombia, Chile MEXICO: Chiapas, Tijuana, Juarez,

Durango CARIBBEAN: Belize, Haiti, Dominican

Republic ASIA : East Timor, Indonesia, Sri

Lanka, China AFRICA: South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya,

Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Rwanda EUROPE: Ireland, Northern Ireland,

England.

Capacitar’s Global Network

Capacitar collaborates with partners & teams in 27 countries.

WHAT WE TEACH—

Simple effective wellness skills such as: • Body movement • Acupressure for pain & stress • Fingerholds for emotions • Breathwork & visualization • Emotional Freedom Technique • Body work, etc.

Trauma Counselors No. Ireland

Domestic Violence Center—Appalachia

Drug/Alcohol Recovery Program—California

BODY LITERACY: to awaken people to their own wisdom of body, mind and spirit.

Guatemala

METHOD: POPULAR EDUCATION vs THERAPYCapacitar’s approach gives people simple tools for what they can do for themselves. Honduras—Prison Staff

Haiti

WITH WHOM DO WE WORK?

Psychologists, social workers, educators, drug & alcohol centers, police trauma counselors, emergency response workers, AIDS counselors, cancer caregivers, staffs of domestic violence shelters, health promoters, therapists, prison staff, grassroots leaders, union leaders, ministers.

South Africa

Santa BarbaraSan Diego, CA

Tanzania

Wisconsin

Ireland/No. Ireland South Africa

KentuckyWisconsin

Santa Barbara

CAPACITAR PROGRAMS: • Multicultural Wellness Education • Trauma Healing & Transformation • Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World Workshops • Capacitar for Children, Schools, Teachers & Families • Living in Wellness Programs—for Caregivers, Families

& Persons with HIV/AIDS, Cancer or Addiction

• Mental Health & Emergency Response workshops

NicaraguaWisconsinSwaziland

From the beginning Capacitar has worked with communities affected by political & domestic violence, trauma, poverty, addiction and marginalization.

El Salvador

Guatemala

El Paso, TX/Juarez, MX

Cincinnati, OH

TRAUMA HEALING: skills to transform patterns of violence—Guatemala, El Salvador Colombia, East Timor, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, No. Ireland, Rwanda, border communities, & inner city USA.

Hurricane Survivors, Honduras

Sri Lanka

Honduras Hurricane Survivors i

Rwanda

SELF CARE FOR CAREGIVERSCapacitar offers people ways to deal with compassion fatigue or vicarious trauma as they live & work in the eye of the hurricane of violence, poverty and disaster.

Colombia

Colombia

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

CHILDREN & SCHOOL.S: Capacitar offer programs for teachers, children, youth at risk, orphans, refugees, survivors and schools in conflict zones

Rwanda

East Timor

Cincinnati, OH

Guatemala

Ohio

Sri Lanka

Cincinnati

Rwanda

LIVING IN WELLNESS: Capacitar offers programs to promote quality of life for caregivers, families and people with HIV/AIDS, Cancer and other disabilites.

AIDS- So.Africa

Cancer-El Paso, TX

Botswana Swaziland

Orange Farm Capetown

Welcome to the growing Circle of Capacitar!

South Africa AIDS counselors & caregivers

Argentina—Los Cerezos

Barrio Women of Buenos Aires

Tanzania Team

Tanzania Labyrinth

Guatemala

Nicaragua

Ireland—An Cosan

Northern Ireland

Santa Barbara, CA—La Casa de Maria

Santa Barbara County Alcohol Drug Mental Health Services

El Paso, Texas

Rwanda

Rwanda Genocide Survivors

Work with Trauma and AIDS in Great Lakes Region

We join with the Earth and with each otherwith our ancestors andall beings of the future to bring new life to the land

to recreate the human communityto provide justice

and peaceto remember

our childrento remember who we are.

We join together as many and

diverse expressionsof one loving Mystery

for the healing of the earth

and the renewal of all life.

Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World

CAPACITAR International212 Laurel Street, Suite 210 Santa Cruz, CA 95060Tel/FAX 831-471-9215 www.capacitar.org