The Kolo Women’s Cross Cultural Collaboration is founded by Dr. Danica Anderson, whose field work has spanned the globe. Dr. Danica Anderson, is a clinical psychology doctorate with concentration in Somatics, received her PhD from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. From her expansive international fieldwork and expertise in trauma, she devised the inclusive and healing Kolo Informed Trauma Care method. For over 14 years she has served as Psycho-Social, Gender Victims Expert attached to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Sub-Sahara Africa and consulted with the United States Department of Defense in Afghanistan for over 6 years. She has given international keynote speeches and presentations on inter-generational trauma, war crimes, her international field work in humanitarian hot spots, healing trauma through female social collectives and the Kolo Informed Trauma Care method for over two decades. She has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, and published two books, (1) Blood & Honey Icons: Biosemiotics & Bioculinary, and (2) Blood & Honey: The Secret Herstory of Women; South Slavic Women’s Experiences in a World of Modern-Day Territorial Warfare.
Her doctorate in Clinical Psychology, concentration in Somatics only added to her knowledge. Her intensified learning began with her mother who survived WWII a concentration camp at Jasenovac, former Yugoslavia. She had the realization that my grandmothers and mother survived a century of wars in former Yugoslavia. She knew their trauma is passed down through the generations; transgenerational.
The Kolo: WCCC has produced Women’s Conferences for decades starting in 2009 in Mexico, and more recently in 2019 in Bosnia. The first conference in Bosnia was in 2010, and the Kolo:WCCC returns to Bosnia in 2025 for the conference on Memory in Motion, where much of the field work has been focused from Dr. Anderson and her Kolo Trauma protocols. This intensified learning opportunity brings together Women’s voices from around the world to present their research and tacit wisdom, and to uplift cultural exchange and solidarity.
Conference Convener
Valley Reed, Dallas, Texas – Valley is a free lance grant writer with over two decades in leadership roles with nonprofits towards progressive causes focused on Peace and Justice, and Human Rights. She was previously Executive Director for the Kolo:WCCC for five years, during which time she organized three Women’s conferences including in New Mexico and Dallas in 2015, and Bosnia in 2019. She was awarded Peacemaker of the year in 2015 by the Dallas Peace Center for her peacemaking efforts on behalf of Women and Children.
Working on behalf of Women as a grants writer, she has brought to fruition trauma informed environments for youth in after school care, Empathy Ambassadors youth leadership training, Compassion in Action Youth Film Making Summer Camps, Job Trainings for Women Who Weld, Trauma Informed Research for Immigrant communities impacted by family violence, and Community Garden Projects in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas towards Food Security. Her grant writing efforts the past five years have reaped close to $8 million towards projects for Social Justice and Direct Services.
Her holistic approach to Social Change is both healing and collaborative.
Valley is the owner of Chrysalis Healing Arts for 25 years, and as a dream teacher she offers private consults, classes, and depth workshops on Collaborative Dreaming, and facilitates private sessions on Somatic Emotional Integration for embodied trauma healing. Her Women’s circles and retreats include the online group for Lady of Beasts, a monthly Women’s Group centered on dreaming female by entering into personal and collective stories through dreams, ritual, and myth. Her Women’s retreats take place in the U.S. Southwest and in tuned with the lunar and seasonal cycles where she teaches Collaborative Dreaming as her signature approach rooted in Ancestral Wisdom, Animism, and Ecofeminism.
Follow her blog at http://www.awakenthesacreddream.com
Visit her website at http://www.chrysalishealingarts.org
Please contact her at valley@awakenthesacreddream
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