Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World
CAPACITAR International
ColombiaAppalachia
Honduras
Capacitar is an international network of solidarity and empowerment.
Capacitar means to empower, to encourage, to bring each other to life.
CAPACITAR began in 1988 as a response to war, disasters and trauma in solidarity with the people of Nicaragua.
Simple wellness practices empowered grassroots people to deal with the poverty, violence and trauma of their lives.
Cantera Batahola
Nicaragua
Rivas
WHERE WE WORK: Capacitar has offered programs for professionals and grassroots people in:
UNITED STATES: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin
CANADA: Toronto, Vancouver/Victoria, Winnepeg
CENTRAL AMERICA: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Colombia, Chile MEXICO: Chiapas, Tijuana, Juarez,
Durango CARIBBEAN: Belize, Haiti, Dominican
Republic ASIA : East Timor, Indonesia, Sri
Lanka, China AFRICA: South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya,
Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Rwanda EUROPE: Ireland, Northern Ireland,
England.
Capacitar’s Global Network
Capacitar collaborates with partners & teams in 27 countries.
WHAT WE TEACH—
Simple effective wellness skills such as: • Body movement • Acupressure for pain & stress • Fingerholds for emotions • Breathwork & visualization • Emotional Freedom Technique • Body work, etc.
Trauma Counselors No. Ireland
Domestic Violence Center—Appalachia
Drug/Alcohol Recovery Program—California
BODY LITERACY: to awaken people to their own wisdom of body, mind and spirit.
Guatemala
METHOD: POPULAR EDUCATION vs THERAPYCapacitar’s approach gives people simple tools for what they can do for themselves. Honduras—Prison Staff
Haiti
WITH WHOM DO WE WORK?
Psychologists, social workers, educators, drug & alcohol centers, police trauma counselors, emergency response workers, AIDS counselors, cancer caregivers, staffs of domestic violence shelters, health promoters, therapists, prison staff, grassroots leaders, union leaders, ministers.
South Africa
Santa BarbaraSan Diego, CA
Tanzania
Wisconsin
Ireland/No. Ireland South Africa
KentuckyWisconsin
Santa Barbara
CAPACITAR PROGRAMS: • Multicultural Wellness Education • Trauma Healing & Transformation • Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World Workshops • Capacitar for Children, Schools, Teachers & Families • Living in Wellness Programs—for Caregivers, Families
& Persons with HIV/AIDS, Cancer or Addiction
• Mental Health & Emergency Response workshops
NicaraguaWisconsinSwaziland
From the beginning Capacitar has worked with communities affected by political & domestic violence, trauma, poverty, addiction and marginalization.
El Salvador
Guatemala
El Paso, TX/Juarez, MX
Cincinnati, OH
TRAUMA HEALING: skills to transform patterns of violence—Guatemala, El Salvador Colombia, East Timor, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, No. Ireland, Rwanda, border communities, & inner city USA.
Hurricane Survivors, Honduras
Sri Lanka
Honduras Hurricane Survivors i
Rwanda
SELF CARE FOR CAREGIVERSCapacitar offers people ways to deal with compassion fatigue or vicarious trauma as they live & work in the eye of the hurricane of violence, poverty and disaster.
Colombia
Colombia
Jaffna, Sri Lanka
CHILDREN & SCHOOL.S: Capacitar offer programs for teachers, children, youth at risk, orphans, refugees, survivors and schools in conflict zones
Rwanda
East Timor
Cincinnati, OH
Guatemala
Ohio
Sri Lanka
Cincinnati
Rwanda
LIVING IN WELLNESS: Capacitar offers programs to promote quality of life for caregivers, families and people with HIV/AIDS, Cancer and other disabilites.
AIDS- So.Africa
Cancer-El Paso, TX
Botswana Swaziland
Orange Farm Capetown
Welcome to the growing Circle of Capacitar!
South Africa AIDS counselors & caregivers
Argentina—Los Cerezos
Barrio Women of Buenos Aires
Tanzania Team
Tanzania Labyrinth
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Ireland—An Cosan
Northern Ireland
Santa Barbara, CA—La Casa de Maria
Santa Barbara County Alcohol Drug Mental Health Services
El Paso, Texas
Rwanda
Rwanda Genocide Survivors
Work with Trauma and AIDS in Great Lakes Region
We join with the Earth and with each otherwith our ancestors andall beings of the future to bring new life to the land
to recreate the human communityto provide justice
and peaceto remember
our childrento remember who we are.
We join together as many and
diverse expressionsof one loving Mystery
for the healing of the earth
and the renewal of all life.
Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World
CAPACITAR International212 Laurel Street, Suite 210 Santa Cruz, CA 95060Tel/FAX 831-471-9215 www.capacitar.org