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Transgenerational Trauma And Cross-Cultural Insights

By Teresa Graham Brett

SUPPORT THIS PROJECT WITH YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION. The Parent Liberation Alliance is the American nonprofit initiative that partners with international NGOs and organizations to facilitate the Parent Liberation Project, founded by Teresa Graham Brett, JD, author of Parenting for Social Change.

In this video, David Metler, a contributing editor for Kindred Media, talks with Teresa Graham Brett of the Parent Liberation Alliance and Dieudonne Allo of Global Leading Light Initiatives. Dieudonne shares his story of growing up in Africa and then questioning, as an adult, trauma’s effect on himself, his community and the young people he worked with as a professional. Teresa shares her story of becoming a social justice attorney and then realizing when she became a mother, how the roots of the dominator culture were transmitted to children – through parents. (Listen to Teresa talk about this insight in a Kindred interview here.)

Allo and Teresa explore the known Transgenerational Trauma in American and African cultures, while sharing their stories of bringing education and healing to families through their nonprofit collaborative projects. These stories are touching, hopeful, and point to a human family path toward wellness – one that may one day break the patter of Transgenerational Trauma for good.

Read Kindred’s interview between Teresa and Allo, with David Metler’s video of his visit to South Africa: https://kindredmedia.org/2016/05/conscious-parenting-africa/

Visit Allo at Global Leading Light Initiatives and Teresa at the Parent Liberation Alliance. Please click on the graphic on the right to support their international nonprofit collaboration.

Teresa is also the author of Parenting for Social Change and a board of directors member of Kindred World. Find her work at www.ParentingforSocialChange.org and Kindred Media.

David Metler is a contributing editor for Kindred Media and also a board of directors member for Kindred World.

Kindred Media is an alternative media outlet and nonprofit initiative of Kindred World, “Sharing the New Story of Childhood, Parenthood, and the Human Family.”

Our gratitude for Keith Reagan Film for shooting this sequence, www.KeithReagan.com.

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Teresa Graham Brett

Teresa Graham Brett, J.D., is a Kindred contributing editor and a board of director member of Kindred World.  She is the founder of the Kindred Parent Liberation Alliance and Project and the author of Parenting for Social Change. Teresa co-sponsored  the Tucson, Arizona workshop  for Kindred's Parenting for a Peaceful World USA Tour with Robin Grille in 2013 and presented at the Re-Thinking Everything Conference in 2014.  You can read her reflections about the Rethinking Everything Conference here.

Teresa lives her passion for creating social change by combining her work in social justice education with parenting. As a professional, she has spent over 20 years working in and with universities and colleges as an educator, leader, administrator and consultant committed to advancing social change and social justice. After graduating from law school, she decided not to practice law. Instead, she opted to serve the cause of social change and justice through her work at three large public universities across the country. She worked with innovative programs designed to create transformative learning for students, staff and faculty. As a consultant she continues to bring her expertise and passion to clients interested in transformative learning, social change and social justice.

Her own life was transformed after the births of Martel and Greyson, who have challenged her to live the values of liberation, freedom and respect as a parent. She discovered the ways in which she did not live in congruence with her professional values in her role as a parent. Using her experience in facilitating social justice learning, she began her own learning journey toward creating respectful relationships with the children who share her life. This personal journey and her challenge to others to create broader social change by transforming how we view and treat children is chronicled in her writing, both on her website and in her book, Parenting for Social Change. You can find her at www.ParentingforSocialChange.com, twitter @TGbrett, or friend her on Facebook, Teresa Graham Brett.

Listen to Teresa talk about Parenting for Social Change in this Kindred Fireside Chat:

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