Healers

7. Massively Parallel Roles & Tasks

by Heidi Burgess

April 17, 2025

Healers help people come to terms with the profound wrongs of the past in ways that lay the groundwork for a more attractive future. Examples include people who establish and run Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, psychologists and other peace workers who do trauma healing (for instance see Agnieszka Alboszta's article about the Trauma-Informed Peacebuilding being undertaken by Mediators Beyond Borders, International and the several articles in BI that look at the way narratives and story-telling can be used to heal past trauma: see this, this, and this. The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism and Coleman Hughes are offering what they believe is a less divisive strategy for dealing with the United States' racist past. Network Weaver offers another strategy for "facing race" while the Canadian Friends Service Committee is helping to mobilize indigenous voices for reconciliation and Nigel Biggar is advocating for balanced look at history —one that merits occasions for both pride and shame.

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