The Heroes of Liberia

Fri, July 23, 12:00pm – 1:30pm

1014 Torney Avenue, Pacific Room at Tides, Thoreau Center for Sustainability SF

Women’s Rights International and Voices In Empowering Women, a group of nurse-midwives in Liberia, worked together during a decade of civil war. 14 years later, at the invitation of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, they opened the Truth Commission’s Women’s Hearings with findings from surveys they conducted during the war. Attended by hundreds of Liberian women, the survey findings were presented first as dramatic plays and then as pictorial graphics so that everyone could understand them.

The short film, True Heroes of Liberia, documents Liberian women’s creative and powerful participation in transitional justice mechanisms and shows how local documentation of human rights violations can lead to accountability, justice, healing, and the building of a strong, vibrant grassroots movement that can protect women's human rights.

Shana Swiss, MD, has worked for 20 years with women and girls living in countries in conflict including the former Yugoslavia, Liberia, Haiti, Sri Lanka, and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Women’s Rights International works with local groups to document human rights violations against women and supports programs using story-telling and popular theater to address the effects of violence on women’s lives.

Thoreau Center Workshop: Lifestyle + Healing

Workshop with Aidan Kinsella

Wednesday, July 14, 12:30P to 1:30P

Pacific Room at Tides, Thoreau Center for Sustainability

Change your posture. Change your perspective. Change your life!

In this 20 minute interactive lecture, Dr. Aidan will discuss the relationship between your posture and how you respond to stress. You will learn a simple tool for creating instantaneous change in how you experience your body.

Dr. Aidan Kinsella, is a licensed chiropractor, specializing in Network Spinal Analysis and Somato-Respiratory Integration. Dr. Aidan combines lifestyle and goal-oriented coaching with reorganizational healing. She will show how gentle touches along the spine develop awareness of the relationships between body, mind, emotions, and human spirit. Her practice, Verve Wellness Studio, is committed to empowering individuals to discover their evolutionary potential, to develop lifelong strategies for transformation, and to live a powerful and passionate life.

Brown Bag events are free informal mid-day learning sessions hosted at Tides. Friends, neighbors and colleagues are welcome. Visitors, please sign in at the front desk.