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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Integrating Mental Health and Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region
A conversation with Ali Bitenga Alexandre, by Nadine Nirere Efforts to integrate Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and peacebuilding are gaining increasing attention in the Great Lakes Region. Yet despite growing global frameworks and policy commitments,...
Small shifts, Deep Change: Reflections from Community-Based Sociotherapy Implementation in Burundi
By Karangwa Diogene During my recent visit to Burundi, I had the opportunity to spend time with our partner organizations, THARS and MIPAREC, and visit communities where community-based sociotherapy is being implemented. What stayed with...
Belonging Helped Me Heal
By Nadine Nirere I am a young student at the University of Rwanda. For a long time, I silently struggled with a psychosomatic condition that took a heavy toll on my academic journey. It all began when I started experiencing tremors that soon affected every part of my...