Trauma and the Soul’s Gold
“You’re allowed to feel sad… Just as long as your sadness happens any place but HERE. Any time but NOW.”
Six year old Mila fled the persecution of her native Serbia in the middle of the night.
A family of Roma-Sinti Nomads smuggled across a dozen borders, a father murdered by Pashtuni Voodoo and a little boy marooned in a Russian winter wasteland, Mila’s story reads like a Hollywood movie, minus the storybook ending.
When the traumatized girl was picked up by the German Child Protection Agency, Ben was assigned the case. Neither foreigner was prepared for what came next.
When did the ancient skill of grief become a threat to western sensibilities? And what punishments await a little nomad girl who disobeys Europe’s cultural mandate to feel okay when what she feels is so much more?
Part performance part skills workshop, Trauma and the Soul’s Gold:
-Revitalizes the part of you which drove you to this work in the first place
-Alchemizes the wounds of living and working in a grief-illiterate society
-Provides living proof that work doesn’t have to suck
-Bypasses the work-life balance booby trap
-Turns disjointed / distant employees into durable teams