A Time for Healing, Educating, And Rebuilding VII Conference:

123 East Main Street,Rochester NY 14604

30 September, 2022

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UJIMA ROCHESTER, INC’s ** WELCOMES BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! ** KEYNOTE SPEAKER, DR. JOY DEGRUY Special Guest Speaker, DR. RAY HAGINS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022 The intergenerational perspective reveals the impact of trauma, its contagion, and repeated patterns within the family. It may help explain certain behavior patterns, symptoms, roles, and values adopted by family members, family sources of vulnerability as well as resilience and strength, and job choices (following in the footsteps of a relative, a namesake) through the generations. Viewed from a family systems perspective, what happened in one generation will affect what happens in the older or younger generation, though the actual behavior may take a variety of forms. Within an intergenerational context, the trauma and its impact may be passed down as the family legacy even to children born after the trauma (Yael Danieli, 1985. p. 124). This trauma also has its effects on the construction of the whole self; including personal identity, ethnic identity, cultural identity, social identity, and collective identity. The development of self has been socially determined and institutionally supported through social injustice, societal inconsistency, and personal impotence. To function in the face of any one of these does cruel and unusual violence to the construction of self. To function in the face of all three, subjects the self to severe crippling or even destruction. This conference is the 7th annual conference of a series that began in 2008 in Rochester, NY with keynote speaker Dr. Joy DeGruy. Dr. Joy is the acclaimed author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome—America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, and the newly released, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: The Study Guide. In P.T.S.S.: The Study Guide, Dr. Joy revisits the topics she covers in P.T.S.S. and provides a detailed mapping of how you can begin the change process in your personal life, employment, family and in your community. She illustrates how—with thoughtful self–exploration—each of us can evaluate our behaviors and replace negative and damaging behaviors with those that will promote, ensure and sustain the healing and advancement of African Americans.