We’re healing trauma and creating Project LIGHT Peace Builders in: Australia with Mind Heart Connect serving traumatized Aborigine and refugee youth. Rwanda with African Peace Partners, CBOPE and Never Again Rwanda serving genocide survivors. Newtown: with Nick Ortner and The Tapping Solution Foundation serving Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting survivors. And war torn Liberia with Change Makers in 2018. Momentum for our vision to bring Project LIGHT to those who need it most around the world is building!
Please read about our latest partnerships below and contact us if you are interested in bringing our Project LIGHT consulting model to your community.
On December 14, 2012 one of the worst school shootings took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. As a Newtown resident, Nick Ortner was anxious to help his community and called in Dr. Leyden just days later to head up Mr. Ortner’s Foundation and establish the first US community-based trauma healing program based on Tapping serving those affected by the tragedy.
Just two months later, Project LIGHT: Rwanda Ambassadors were reaching out to a 12-year-old boy who had lost his brother in the shooting. Our documentary, When I Was Young, I Said I Would Be Happy tells the story of what is possible when our traumatized young people in the world are able to connect and heal.
Huge “thank you” to Nick Ortner and The Tapping Solution Foundation for making Project LIGHT a reality.
Over the last 10 years, our trainings have impacted hundreds and hundreds of Rwandans across the country. In 2016 we made 4 train-the-trainer trips to Rwanda to scale our Project LIGHT train-the-trainer model with African Peace Partners, CBOPE Conflict Transformation Mediators, Never Again Rwanda, the largest peace building organization in Rwanda and Rwanda Correctional Services Social Workers from 13 of the 14 prisons in the country housing over 54,000 inmates.
As a result of her work with Never Again Rwanda, Dr. Leyden was invited to make a keynote address on Healing Transgenerational Trauma at Never Again Rwanda and Interpeace’s first annual Healing and Social Cohesion Conference bringing 100 peacebuilders from war torn countries around the world was very well respected and received.