Bringing Hope and Healing to Ukraine

A Diary of Population-Wide Trauma Healing as a Public Health Intervention for a Community Traumatized by War

In this new blog series, CMBM’s Founder and CEO, James S. Gordon, MD, shares reflections and important insights from our trauma healing work in Ukraine.

Read the series here:

Opening Day Opening Meditation

Here are some of the 138 physicians, psychotherapists, educators, and leaders of women’s groups who…

Welcome to Ukraine

Before I tell you about the Ternopil training, I’d like to tell you how we…

In a Shelter for Internally Displaced People

On this chilly April morning, psychiatrist Roman Kechur brought together 20 leaders of major Ukrainian…

Spending Time with Children on my 2nd Visit to Ukraine

On World Mental Health Day (October 10, 2022), WHO noted that almost 10 million people…

A Little Girl Opens Our Eyes 

Eight-year-old Sofia, whose picture I shared with you yesterday, sits beside me in July, in…

The Persistence of Trauma and Terror

In Lviv, Ukraine, children’s drawings portray the the devastation, loss, and overwhelming trauma of war.

Partners in Healing

Before I tell you about my third trip to Ukraine, in October 2022, I want…

Small Doses of Care and Hope

My third trip, longer than the first two, will take me to Odesa, as well…

Partnering with Save Ukraine

This time in Kyiv, Save Ukraine and its Director, Mykola Kuleba, and Project Manager Dmytro…

At Save Ukraine’s Center for Hope and Healing

At Save Ukraine Rescue Network’s “Trauma Oriented Mental Health Center,” now renamed the Center for…

An Intermission and a Celebration

Wonderful to feel the deep and abiding commitment to Ukraine of Secretary Hillary Clinton and…

Our Hope and Healing for Ukraine program is organized and implemented in partnership with Pact on a USAID-funded Public Health System Recovery & Resilience Activity.

This program is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.