Inner healing starts with social healing
Institute for Community-Based Sociotherapy contributes to peaceful communities and psychosocial wellbeing of people whose lives are affected by crises
Community based Sociotherapy
Healing social relationships
Community-Based Sociotherapy helps people transforming social relationships, individual beliefs and attitudes, rebuilding trust, processing traumatic memories and restoring social dignity to shape a better future.
Who are we?
A network of CBS practitioners and researchers
ICBS safeguards quality standards of CBS and serves as a platform connecting CBS practitioners and researchers.
What we do
Our services
ICBS shares and develops CBS competencies, supports quality CBS implementation and develops knowledge on integration of peace and mental health and psychosocial wellbeing
Training and accreditation
CBS implementation
Knowledge development
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Tackling Gender-Based Violence Through Sociotherapy
By Nadine Nirere My name is Murindabigwi*, I am a 65 years old man. I went to jail twice because of the looting I did during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, and I failed to pay for what I had taken. I was also imprisoned for physically abusing my wife. I was...
Circles of Healing: Witnessing Sociotherapy in Gulu
By Nadine Nirere As a Communications Lead at ICBS, I often travel to capture impact stories. Each trip leaves me full, full of words, full of feelings, and full of the voices of people I’ve never met before but who somehow become part of me. Our recent visit to Gulu,...
Ripples of hope: Finding connection in times of division
By Carolien Grootendorst The world today is marked by deepening fractures, geopolitical tensions, violent conflicts, rising nationalism, and the mass movement of people across borders. In many places, trust in institutions is eroding, while communities struggle under...