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

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A burden was lifted

A burden was lifted

My name is Beatrice, and I am one of the few family members who survived the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Most of my family members, including my parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles, were killed—over 30 people in total. As the oldest surviving family...

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Josiane’s Journey: Finding Hope in Nakivale

Josiane’s Journey: Finding Hope in Nakivale

Josiane's Journey: Finding Hope in Nakivale In the Nakivale settlement of Uganda, a woman named Josiane lived a life marked by unspeakable tragedy. Originally from Burundi, she had escaped from a homeland torn apart by violence and conflict, a place where almost all...

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