Raft Community Conversations Participants from ACROSS THE GLOBE ARE INVITED TO SHARE (Via ZOOM ) OUR lived experience AS WE NAVIGATE CHALLENGES with the group's collective wisdom -- (tinyurl.com/raftict2025)

RAFT Community Conversations is informed by Integrative Community Therapy.

" ICT, also known as "Terapia Comunitária Integrativa" or TCI, is a unique large group dialogic therapeutic modality that requires only short-term training, can accommodate groups from 15-200 people, and can be performed successfully in an online format.

ICT was created by psychiatrist/anthropologist Dr. Adalberto Barreto in response to an increased need for meaningful community-based mental health services in the extremely low-income neighborhoods (also known as favelas) of Fortaleza, Brazil. This modality is based on a five-step participatory structure that elicits therapeutic community conversation and knowledge-sharing in groups of 15 or more.

The primary benefits are community building, promoting a sense of “shared suffering,” providing a space of inclusion and diversity, sharing experiences to promote healthy coping strategies, and creating and reinforcing social/support networks. By emphasizing community-building in a shared environment, ICT creates a forum for solidarity, collective healing, and the proliferation of resiliency." For more information see https://www.visiblehandscollaborative.org/about-integrative-community-therapy

Live (Virtual/Zoom) Meeting

Zoom Meetings will be at the same time from 5:30pm- 7:00pm Geneva, Switzerland Central European Time (CET) on the second Tuesday of every month starting on January 14th, February 11th, March 11th, April 8th, May 13th, 2025 and last meeting before ICT raft summer break is Tuesday, June 10th at 5:30pm - 7:00 pm /17:30-19:00 Geneva CEST time. We resume our meetings on second Tuesday of every month starting on September 9th, October 14th, November 11th, December 9th, 2025. (NB for those in training, zoom is from 5-7pm Geneva time).

San Francisco time 8:30 - 10am, Chicago 10:30 am - 12, New York 11:30 am- 1:00pm

Check your own city's time zone via Swiss time 5:30- 7pm www.timeanddate.com

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela.

We invite you to join us at any time, this means you can show up late or leave early. If you're not quite sure what to expect when you arrive, no worries. In the setting of RAFT Community Conversations informed by ICT, there are no experts besides the expertise of your own experience. (Silent participation is fine too).

Additional resources for Community Conversations and ICT