ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the work of the Common Threads Project (CTP) and how psychotherapy circles are used to fill a gap in long-term psychological recovery from sexual and gender-based violence in the humanitarian context, drawing from work in Bosnia, Ecuador, Nepal and The Democratic Republic of Congo. CTP has developed an integrative intervention that incorporates the tradition of story cloth-making with other therapeutic modalities informed by neuroscientific understandings of trauma, traditional practices that have healing power and groupwork. The chapter covers the therapeutic power of story cloths and includes two clinical examples from the field showing the story cloths produced.
