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
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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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CBS implementation
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During the Safety Phase, I Was One of the First to Speak
By Nadine Nirere My name is Janet (name changed), I live in a small village with my partner and our children. Life took a difficult turn when my partner began misusing the money meant to support our family, especially for feeding our children and keeping them in...
Bwiza’s Story: Choosing Life Again
By Nadine Nirere My name is Bwiza (name changed). I was born around 2002. I never knew my parents, my mother died during childbirth, and my father was not involved in my life. I was raised by religious sisters. When I was 13, a woman without children took me in....
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...