Recipes for healing : gender-sensitive care for women survivors of torture / Nancy L. Pearson, June Pagaduan Lopez, Margaret Cunningham.

This exploration of a woman's frame of reference is precisely why we decided to bring women caregivers together to share their experiences. Many people doubted that a workshop for women caregivers and survivors of torture could be uplifting and inspiring. But what made this workshop so joyful, emotionally uplifting and physically energizing was the process itself. The process provided focus as well as space, time to think as well as to be, moments of sharing and times of personal reflection. We honored not only the professional roles and lives of women but also the similarities or diversities of their trauma experiences. The process also provided the context for valuing the cultural and trauma perspectives that each woman brought with her. In essence, the process was created by women themselves for other women. Even though a handful of women had been primarily responsible for setting up the process, the process truly belonged to everyone involved. We "trusted the process" to allow the space and creativity for great things to happen. --From chapter one