This training, developed in 6 municipalities in Arauca and Chocó, is a commitment to building capacities in the environments of adolescents from a social ecological approach. Mental health and psychosocial support (SMAPS) training has been conducted for both adolescents and young people, as well as teachers and caregivers. A prior contextualization was carried out for the development of the curriculum, support manuals, and methodologies, using UNICEF-provided methods complemented by Dunna’s own methodologies, such as mind-body strategies.
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Psychosocial support for the magistracy, legal teams, restorative teams, and territorial teams participating in the preparation and execution of the observation hearing for macro-case 03, Subcase Antioquia.
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The pilot program of the comprehensive protocol for the prevention and care of domestic violence through restorative practices and mind-body strategies was carried out in the city of Medellín, with the Organization of victims of the armed conflict ‘Las Madres de la Candelaria,’ and their direct and indirect families. The pilot, conducted with 50 participants, including children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly, had a qualitative impact measurement carried out by an independent evaluation team (Pontifical Bolivarian University), which found positive changes in all evaluated categories: family interaction patterns, conflict coping strategies, communication styles, and psychosomatic phenomena.
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This training aimed to provide self-protection tools for leaders dealing with cases of GBV and associated vulnerabilities, especially with migrant populations. It primarily sought to offer necessary psychosocial intervention tools within the framework of humanitarian care, understand the interaction of situations affecting Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being, and develop basic skills for awareness and emotional management that can be included in their daily actions.
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The training aimed to provide members of social organizations with tools for crisis intervention for their beneficiaries and offer self-care tools for those in charge of their care. This training was offered to grassroots migrant organizations, and an adaptation was made for officials of the Migrant Assistance Center in Bucaramanga as part of the Integrate Program.
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A scalable primary mental health care route was built for migrants, based on innovative techniques validated by international scientific literature. The main focus is on stabilizing the central nervous system and providing guidelines for interpersonal relationships in community integration. The two pillars of practices are mind-body strategies and restorative practices.
The program featured the first biometric measurement in Latin America, demonstrating that the central nervous system of the participants stabilized, and their vagal flexibility significantly increased in just 3 months.
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We participated in the Local and Rural Justice Models project as implementing partners of UNODC. The project has 4 components, one of which involves the implementation of the Restorative Youth Justice Program designed by the Ministry of Justice and Law and IOM. Its main objective is to build capacity and services in the territory, promote and support care processes, and change perceptions of punitive justice. The program was implemented in 22 prioritized PDET municipalities.
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Bunsichari was our first program for reconciliation, and it began with the collaboration of various key entities in transitional justice in Colombia: the ARN, the UN Verification Mission, the victims’ table, and the Mayor’s Office of Viotá. The diploma, completed in 2021, achieved the participation of victims, reintegrated individuals, the security forces, and the institutionality in a common exercise of reconciliation. It served as a preparatory restorative process for the voluntary TOAR initiated by the reintegrated individuals in the San Gabriel village in Viotá, as well as the TOARs in Fusagasugá and Venecia.
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In light of the success in the preparation work for the voluntary TOAR in Viotá, the JEP requested Dunna to co-create a restorative process model (based on informal restorative practices) that would allow for a direct dialogue between victims and respondents prior to the recognition hearing and the definition of the self-sanction. This pilot, carried out in the first semester of 2022, involved respondents from case 03-Ocaña, and its results led the JEP to establish the mandatory implementation of this restorative process prior to all JEP recognition hearings in all offices.
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It is a strategy aimed at the emotional recovery of women victims of different types of violence through yoga, peace education, and body narratives. To date, 250 women victims residing in the Nuevo Occidente neighborhood in Medellín have been served. The project was developed within the framework of the ‘Women, Memories of War, Protagonists of Peace’ project, which seeks to create spaces for the construction of a peace culture with a gender perspective, weaving reconciliation and new ways of relating in everyday life.
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The trainings are theoretical-practical workshops of 20 hours, where we explore the ways in which complex trauma impacts the nervous system and how through trauma-sensitive movement and breathing practices we can rebalance it.
The program provides young scholars funded by the Bolívar Davivienda Foundation with the soft skills needed to navigate the challenges in their daily lives through mind-body strategies that they can apply individually throughout their lives. Specifically, emphasis is placed on skills such as self-awareness, emotional management, stress management, self-esteem, self-care, compassion, respect, non-violence, and forgiveness.
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The training process, certified by the Universidad Minuto de Dios, aimed to provide theoretical and practical tools to design and teach basic-level yoga classes primarily to victims of the armed conflict residing in Ciudad Equidad. The emphasis is on strengthening knowledge related to assertive communication, empathy, and the ability to understand the needs and limitations of students. It seeks to build installed capacity and expand the employment inclusion possibilities for beneficiaries.
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As part of the National Government’s Priority Interest Housing Program, the -Yoga for Coexistence- Project has been developed since 2015. The project aims to enhance coexistence skills through a yoga program. The Yoga for Coexistence Project, in its pilot phase, demonstrated that through yoga, it is possible to improve the variables that most impact the coexistence of a community. A mixed impact measurement was conducted in collaboration with the University of Los Andes (School of Government) with statistically significant results.
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The Shanti program has been implemented in 9 cities in Colombia with young individuals in the juvenile penitentiary system of ICBF. Thanks to the project, participants have increased their perception of individual well-being/emotional health, reduced scores of aggression, depression, anxiety, and stress, and have developed internal skills to outline their life project. The project also includes caregivers of the young individuals with whom we work. All participants are provided with self-care and caregiving tools, as well as guidelines to support the life project designed by the young individuals. A mixed impact measurement was conducted in collaboration with the University of Los Andes (Psychology Faculty) with statistically significant results.
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The training process, certified by the Universidad Minuto de Dios, provides theoretical and practical tools applied to conflict resolution and enhances the communicative, emotional, and cognitive competencies of participants for implementation in their daily work with different populations. Restorative practices are a social science based on innovative methodologies to build social capital and achieve social discipline through participatory learning and decision-making (Ted Wachtel). Faced with the need for processes with adolescents and youth in the Juvenile Justice System (SRPA) to be more participatory, inclusive, and dynamic, this training begins by providing participants with fundamental elements to carry out more effective work with the adolescent and youth population linked to the SRPA.
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A training in Integral Yoga was conducted for 6 incarcerated youth and 14 psychologists and educators from the Specialized Care Center in Tunja (Colombia). The training establishes capacity within the Specialized Care Center to contribute to the management of aggression, anxiety, and the improvement of the quality of life for the youth and those who support them. The 20 participants form the first group of youth and professionals from the Adolescent Criminal Responsibility System trained as integral yoga instructors. The youth now have a new alternative for a productive life that promotes peace and environments for personal growth and community coexistence.
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The program assisted 800 victims of the armed conflict in 9 municipalities recognized through justice and peace sentences. The intervention aimed to reduce the emotional suffering of the participants and contribute to the reconstruction of social fabric in communities affected by violence. A study conducted by the University of the Andes measured the impacts of the intervention, and the results of the study are statistically significant.
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The training process, certified by the University Minuto de Dios, was aimed at coexistence coordinators and psycho-guidance counselors from public schools in the department of Cundinamarca. The content aimed to raise awareness and disseminate Law 1216 of 2013 for school coexistence and promote the adoption of simple tools from yoga for the promotion of healthy school environments. We also sought to provide a space for self-care and self-awareness for participants to foster the creation of tools for peace in the new generations.
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This pilot program involved a quantitative and qualitative research conducted by the University of Los Andes – CIFE – to measure the effectiveness of a comprehensive yoga-based intervention aimed at preventing and reducing school aggression and bullying in children and adolescents from contexts with high levels of violence and poverty. The program successfully developed skills for peacefully resolving conflicts and improving anxiety and depression levels, particularly for bullying victims. The positive impact of the methodology on the school environment, coexistence, and mental health of children and youth encourages us to continue pooling efforts for the well-being of the most vulnerable children and youth.
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In partnership with the National Reintegration Agency, between the years 2010 and 2014, we developed a psychosocial and mental health care program within the reintegration pathway of the then ACR, benefiting approximately 800 individuals in the process of reintegration in Bogotá, Medellín, Barranquilla, Villavicencio, and Bucaramanga. The program, based on mind-body strategies, showed outstanding results in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and the study published in a foreign indexed journal is still cited today as one of the outstanding contributions to the management of this condition. With the program, 96.3% of participants improved their PTSD diagnosis, and 92.4% completely overcame the disorder.
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The training aims to promote models of coexistence and social fabric reconstruction to integrate community members into their work processes as community agents. The work begins with the transformation of suffering, enhancing individuals’ and communities’ own resources and resilience.
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Based on the experience gained and the results of the training conducted during 2011 and 2012, a more extensive and in-depth training was designed. It involved not only teachers from municipal schools but also individuals directly affected by the armed conflict. The training aims to promote models of coexistence and social fabric reconstruction for integration into their work processes as community agents. The work begins with the transformation of suffering by enhancing individuals’ and communities’ own resources and resilience. The 2013 training took place in 5 municipalities, and several impact measurements were conducted, including one performed one year after the training.
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The pilot project aimed to scientifically measure the effects of dance and movement psychotherapy for managing depression and anxiety in adolescents from vulnerable populations in the country. A pilot project was conducted with 70 adolescents from strata 0, 1, and 2 in Cartagena de Indias. The intervention lasted for 3 months. Dance and movement psychotherapy sessions involved various exercises to use movement psycho-therapeutically, as a creative process that promotes emotional, cognitive, social, and physical integration. A study conducted in collaboration with Dr. José Posada Villa verified a 45% improvement in depression and anxiety symptoms.
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