Welcome to PTC(UK)
PATRONS: Jeremy Hardy, Ghada Karmi, Dave Randall, Reem Kelani
- Delivering Therapeutic Approaches to Children and Families in Palestine
- Providing Resilience to Traumatised People
- Giving Specialist Psychological Training & Supervision
Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) was set up in Hatfield, Hertfordshire in 2010 to support mental health and community workers in Gaza who are dealing every day with a traumatised population. It aims to build a network of specialist trainers in trauma therapies and provide emergency aid techniques for Gaza’s mental health workers.
It has, at the moment, direct links with Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza (www.ptcgaza.com). Dr. Mohamed Altawil, a director of Palestine Trauma Centre (Gaza), came to the UK in 2004 to study psychology and he found therapists in many areas of psycho-social practice willing to give professional assistance to the hard-pressed mental health workers in Gaza.
PTC(UK) exists to co-ordinate and promote this support. It also hopes to extend research and treatment programmes relating to trauma into other parts of the Middle East.
- Welcome to Az Theatre www.aztheatre.org.uk and Games to Gaza www.gamestogaza.co.uk who are working alongside us on Gaza projects. Jonathan Chadwick, from Az Theatre, was in Gaza during November 2011. Here is his report: http://www.opendemocracy.net/jonathan-chadwick/gaza-reflections-on-resislience
- Please note our new bank details in the Donate section.
- The PTC(UK) Focusing team entered Gaza on 29th December 2011 and delivered the first stage of the training at PTC(Gaza). Details:click here. The team left Gaza on 4th January 2012. Here is Ahmed’s email to the team:
Dear: Jerry, Mary, Mohammed and Lina,
Deeply from my heart, I would like to thank you for this wonderful training in Focusing therapy. It was an effective and very useful way to help the trainees to help themselves.
I hope that all of you got home alright. I feel very thankful and grateful for your coming in this time, especially during the Christmas holiday.
This training is considered as the first stone in the development of the Focusing approach in Gaza. We hope that we will be able to finalize the second phase of this training in Gaza.
We in PTC Gaza will do our best to let this training develop successfully and effectively to help the traumatised people.
Again and again I would like to thank all of you, and special thanks to our colleagues in PTC-UK. Also, special thanks to the funders of this wonderful project.
Ahmad Thabet-PTC-Gaza Chairman