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What is Collective Healing?Witnessing the Collective with Lori ShridhareWhat does collective healing have to do with creativity? And what role can poetry play in a world gripped by so much suffering? Lori Shridhare, a writer and director of communications at Harvard Medical School, began studying with teacher and international facilitator Thomas Hübl. After years of immersive study of collective and inter-generational trauma, Lori turned to writing poetry. Throughout 2024 as the destruction of Gaza unfolded, she began to experience words and images spontaneously come through her regular writing practice – fragments of sentences that spoke of struggling voices yearning to speak. This process inspired her to write...
2025-06-1154 min
What is Collective Healing?Bonus Poem : Witness. Target = Rubble. by Lori ShridhareWitness. Target = Rubble. by Lori Shridhare Published in Merion West, February 2025 I write as both the witness and the experiencer. We appear as two separate individuals. We are not. Witness is now the living trace of this encounter. -Gert-Jan van der Heiden Echoes of seismic blasts penetrate this skin of memory. I am under. Boulders on my back. Polygonals, squares, round. Slabs. We try to hide from what our vision sees, but we...
2025-06-0906 min
ThinkResearchThe Science of CommunicationsHardeep Ranu, Translational Innovator project manager at Harvard Catalyst and guest host, is joined by our Harvard Catalyst Communications team, Leslie Lawler, communication specialist, Angela Rakauskas, communications manager, and Lori Shridhare, communications director. They discuss the science of communication and what it takes to clearly communicate the work of all of Harvard Catalyst’s programs and initiatives, plus the work across Harvard and 19 academic healthcare centers, with thousands of researchers across disciplines and the general public.
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2022-05-2529 min