05/30/2026
Join us on June 26, 2026 • 10:00 – 11:30am PDT for :
"What Occupation Does to the Soul:
Global Reverberations of Palestinian Historical Trauma"
-A Community Gathering with Dr. Samah Jabr, Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Jennifer Mullan, facilitated by Dr. Jess Ghannam
Join us for a conversation marking the book launch of Radiance and Pain in Resilience, a powerful collection of essays by Palestinian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and internationally respected mental health advocate Dr. Samah Jabr.
We are gathering in the midst of genocide. The massive, deliberate traumatization of an entire people, cheered, funded, and shielded from accountability by Western governments, is unfolding in real time. As Israel’s assault on Gaza continues to annihilate bodies, families, and entire lineages, this conversation refuses to look away. It asks what it is to tend to the psyche under conditions of systematic destruction.
Drawing on decades of clinical practice, political analysis, and lived experience under occupation, Dr. Jabr examines the psychological consequences of colonization, displacement, and historical trauma on the Palestinian people. Through personal reflections, case studies, and cultural critique, she challenges dominant Western paradigms of mental health and offers a decolonial, psycho-spiritual framework rooted in dignity, collective care, resistance, and truth.
Dr. Jabr will be joined by Dr. Gabor Maté—physician, trauma expert, author of The Myth of Normal—and Dr. Jennifer Mullan, clinical psychologist and author of Decolonizing Therapy. The conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Jess Ghannam, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences at UCSF.
Proceeds from this conversation will go directly to Project Hope Palestine, supporting 500 orphaned children living at Al-Baraka orphan camp in Gaza.
Contributions will fund construction materials for a second classroom, summer clothing, and vegetable vouchers.
link for webinar in bio as well as https://scienceandnonduality.com/event/what-occupation-does-to-the-soul-global-reverberations-of-palestinian-historical-trauma/