Capacitar To Empower, To Bring Life

Hello!

Capacitar is a simple wellness practice that leads to healing, wholeness, and peace.

On January 15, we shared some of these practices with the Eosinophilic Parent Support Group at Children’s Hospital, to help relief stress. Our Program Manager, Lucy Voegele, is currently training with founder Pat Cane, in order to receive her certificate in Trauma Healing and Transformation. Meghan is certified and has taken these amazing courses with Pat as well, twice actually! Since we’ve been so involved with Capacitar this month we want to share it with you, too.

Capacitar is a Spanish word meaning to empower, to bring life. The organization Capacitar began in Nicaragua in 1988. Sr. Mary Hartman invited founder Pat Cane to work on a grassroots art festival. Sr. Mary soon became aware of Pat’s own self-care practices, of Tai Chi and acupressure.  She told Pat “Your art is great, but will you teach us to do ‘that’!” From there, Capacitar was born. Word began to spread of the workshops and soon friends in Chile and Guatemala wanted to learn the practices being taught. Materials were needed for the work and so the first manual was developed. In 1994, Capacitar incorporated as a nonprofit based in California. Capacitar has now spread all around the world collaborating specifically with groups and communities affected by war, poverty, and trauma.

To access the Capacitar Emergency Tool Kit: Click here.

I will end with the following prayer:
We join with the earth and with each other,
With our ancestors and all beings of the future
To bring new life to the land,
To recreate the human community,
To provide justice and peace,
To remember our children,
To remember who we are…
We join together as many and diverse expressions
of one loving mystery,
For the healing of the earth
And the renewal of all life.

—adapted from the UN Prayer of the Sabbath