{"id":4711,"date":"2024-06-10T15:12:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koreapeacenow.org\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:14:32","slug":"our-community-and-intergenerational-healing-series-continues-kpngn-june-2024-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koreapeacenow.org\/our-community-and-intergenerational-healing-series-continues-kpngn-june-2024-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Community and Intergenerational Healing series continues | KPNGN June 2024 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, Korea Peace Now!\u00a0launched an online public educational series<\/a>\u00a0to critically understand the impacts of intergenerational trauma stemming from the Korean War and other U.S. forever wars.<\/p>\n

Through dialogue, political education, and storytelling, this series aims to empower our community to take action for peace, build bridges across generations, and forge a path toward realizing our collective security and liberation. Our speakers will highlight how intergenerational healing informs their work and efforts to end the ongoing Korean War. We will also discuss how the fate of the Korean War is inextricably intertwined with all movements seeking to end U.S. wars and militarism globally.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udce3\u00a0<\/strong>JOIN US:<\/strong>\u00a0Reflections on\u00a0Unbind Your Heart: Korean Han \/ Grief Transmutation Ceremony<\/em>, One Year Later,\u00a0<\/strong>this Wednesday, June 12, at 5pm PT\/8pm PT. Register\u00a0here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

For our second gathering of the Intergenerational Learning and Healing Series, we will hear from Jungwon Kim and Yoon Ra, who will share their reflections from last year\u2019s\u00a0Unbind<\/em>\u00a0Your Heart: Korean Han \/ Grief Transmutation Ceremony<\/em>\u00a0where participants transmuted collective, generational grief and rage, \ud55c \/ Han, into a wellspring of righteous anger and strength to call for an end to the Korean War.<\/p>\n

Both speakers will discuss the process of blending grassroots community organizing with ritual, performance, and song in order to transform and counter state violence and warmaking. They will also share about their work more broadly and why we must prioritize community, ritual, and spiritual resistance in organizing and narrative-building practices. After their presentations, participants will have the opportunity to share their own stories in smaller breakout rooms facilitated by each speaker.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t forget to check out the recording of our first gathering,\u00a0<\/em>Intergenerational Trauma and the Korean War: Healing Across Generations<\/em><\/a>, where we heard from award-winning author Joseph Han and psychologist and shaman Helena Choi Soholm. Both speakers shared their approaches to healing intergenerational trauma and grappling with their families\u2019 histories, the legacies of U.S. imperialism, and the ongoing war in Korea.\u00a0Watch\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u270c\ufe0fJOIN:<\/strong>\u00a0Join us at our\u00a0KPNGN National Meeting\u00a0<\/strong>this Thursday, June 13, at 5pm PT\/8pm ET! We\u2019ll continue with\u00a0Part III of our New Member Orientation!\u00a0<\/strong>This is the third and final session of our three-part series. In Part III, the Membership Committee will host a Q&A session and open discussion to empower newcomers and longtime activists alike to speak up for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Bring your questions about the Korean War, our movement for peace for Korea, advocacy, or anything else that might be on your mind. This session is for you all!\u00a0Register\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To learn more about the history of Korea Peace Now! and Women Cross DMZ\u2019s work, the Membership Committee recommends watching this short video on\u00a0Korea Peace Now!<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f\u00a0LEARN:<\/strong>\u00a0The KPNGN Education Committee suggests reading the following article:<\/p>\n