Join us in the Waterfront or online as we screen & discuss The Wisdom of Trauma as a special presentation in our YANA trauma series
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Thursday. Doors open 6:15 pm.
WHERE: COhatch Waterfront
137 West Bridge Street Homestead, PA 15120
THIS EVENT WILL ALSO BE BROADCAST LIVE ON ZOOM
COST: By Donation or VIP Reserved Recliner $20
See OMA Scholarship Assistance
Can our deepest pain be a doorway to healing?
Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is the root of our deepest wounds. Dr. Maté gives us a new vision: a trauma-informed society in which parents, teachers, physicians, policy-makers and legal personnel are not concerned with fixing behaviors, making diagnoses, suppressing symptoms and judging, but seek instead to understand the sources from which troubling behaviors and diseases spring in the wounded human soul.
Join us at COhatch in the Waterfront or from the comfort of your home online as we screen & discuss The Wisdom of Trauma featuring Dr. Gabor Maté in this special presentation in our 2025 YANA trauma series.
Special VIP tickets are available if you would like to reserve a recliner on site for the viewing, there is a fixed fee of $20.
$5-10 Donation Requested for regular admission, in person or on Zoom.
COhatch Waterfront is located at 137 WEST BRIDGE ST, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120 in the heart of The Waterfront shopping center between Ethan Allen and Bath & Body Works. Parking is free throughout the shopping center. If you require any special accommodations, please message us at: events@omapittsburgh.org
ONLINE PARTICIPATION: THE DISCUSSION WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE ON ZOOM. ALL REGISTERED INDIVIDUALS WILL RECEIVE A LINK TO LIVESTREAM THE MOVIE FROM THE WISDOM OF TRAUMA WEBSITE TO WATCH CONCURRENTLY. THE LINK WILL EXPIRE WITHIN 24 HOURS.
Please note that the movie file is NOT downloadable, hence you will need a stable internet connection for the screening event. The link will be active for 24 hrs and the movie will be available at all times during this viewing window, meaning viewers can access the film at any time and watch it as many times as they like between our start time of 7pm and 7pm on Friday, March 7th.
About You Are Not Alone (YANA)
In the Fall of 2020, OMA brought together a panel of survivors to meet monthly and discuss their own individual traumas and journeys of healing. For four years, our panel covered a variety of topics and evolved into an amazing therapeutic journey for each person that shared their most intimate and vulnerable parts of themselves with the OMA community, hoping to share the message that not only is healing from trauma possible, it is also a profoundly transformative experience.
As we move into this new year, we want to expand the work that has been done under the banner of You Are Not Alone (YANA) by offering trauma-informed trainings, lectures, workshops, and seasonal gatherings. Some of these offerings will come from our panel, but we are also reaching out to others in our community that have something special to offer to the healing discussion.
Healing from trauma is a complex journey, but with the right support and understanding, individuals can find a path to recovery. Trauma affects individuals differently, so the need to offer a wide variety of support is indicated. Our goal is to foster discussions around holistic health, safety, transparency, community, empowerment, choice, and the need for systemic change.
Lectures are currently priced nominally to the public and we offer scholarship assistance to anyone with financial constraints.
Gail Hunter and Leza Vivio are the moderators for the 2025 YANA programming.
About The Wisdom of Trauma
The interconnected epidemics of anxiety, chronic illness and substance abuse are, according to Dr Gabor Maté, normal. But not in the way you might think.
One in five Americans are diagnosed with mental illness in any given year [1]. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24 [2], and kills over 700,000 people a year globally [3] and 48,300 in the USA [4]. Drug overdose kills 81,000 in the USA annually [5]. The autoimmunity epidemic affects 24 million people in the USA [6]. What is going on?
In The Wisdom of Trauma, we travel alongside physician, bestselling author and Order of Canada recipient Dr. Gabor Maté to explore why our western society is facing such epidemics. This is a journey with a man who has dedicated his life to understanding the connection between illness, addiction, trauma and society.
Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is the root of our deepest wounds. Dr. Maté gives us a new vision: a trauma-informed society in which parents, teachers, physicians, policy-makers and legal personnel are not concerned with fixing behaviors, making diagnoses, suppressing symptoms and judging, but seek instead to understand the sources from which troubling behaviors and diseases spring in the wounded human soul.
For more information, go to: https://thewisdomoftrauma.com/
*** If you feel you are in crisis, please contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, which offers free, 24/7 call, text and chat access to trained crisis counselors. Text or call 988 to be connected to a crisis center nearest to you. If you are in an emergency, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. OMA Center for Mind, Body, and Spirit does not offer crisis counseling or emergency services.***
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