7.30pm,
Wednesday 25th January 2012, Papanui Baptist Church,
Sawyers Arms Road, Papanui, Christchurch.
Admission:
Gold coin supper
February
2012
We
have the pleasure of bringing Dr Rony Berger to speak
to you in February. He will be speaking about
the impact and treatment of traumatic stress disorders
on children and communities.
ABOUT
THE SPEAKER: Dr. Rony Berger is a senior clinical
psychologist and a family and child therapist who is
an internationally recognized expert in dealing with
the psychological preparation for and aftermath of terrorism
and other major disasters. Dr. Berger is on the faculty
of Emergency Medicine at Ben Gurion University as well
as on the faculty of the Stress, Crisis and Trauma program
at Tel Aviv University. He is the Director of Disaster
Relief and Rehabilitation Unit at Brit Olam, an International
Relief organization, and also a Fellow in Psychology
Beyond Borders, a humanitarian organization aims at
alleviating the psychological suffering in the aftermath
of traumatic events.
Dr. Berger has been on the advisory board of the Center
for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at
Stanford University where is help design compassion
cultivation programs as well collaborate with Prof.
Philip Zimbardo (The Stanford Jail Experiment) on developing
manuals to enhance community resiliency, promote pro-social
behavior and tolerance toward the other.
From 1999-2010 he was the director of the community
services at Natal Trauma Center where he designed community
programs to deal with the impact of war and terrorism
and trained thousands of professionals in treating trauma
survivors.
During the period of 1997-2000, Dr. Berger was a Visiting
Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Medicine at Al
Quds University where he taught medical and graduate
students and co-directed the Palestinian Center for
Traumatic Stress Studies. Additionally, he served as
a senior researcher at the Harry Truman Center for the
Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In
training professionals and in leading emergency relief
and medical teams, Dr. Berger has been involved in many
major disasters including the Oklahoma City, 9/11, Katrina,
the Tsunami in Asia, the terror attacks in Sri Lanka
and Thailand, and the earthquakes in Turkey, Indonesia,
China, Samoa, Haiti, and most recently in Japan.
7.30pm,
Tuesday, 7 February 2012,
Papanui
Baptist Church, Sawyers Arms Road, Papanui, Christchurch.
Admission:
Gold coin supper
