TOPIC:  THE PRACTICE OF PEACE:  A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY – Where can we find peace?  How do we grow peace?  What is my role in peace?  If they kill 10,000 flowers, will they kill the spring?

BIO:  Dr. Gaea Logan is a British-American psychoanalyst, training consultant, lecturer, and writer whose work bridges trauma, group process, contemplative practice, and democratic repair.  She is Executive Director of the International Institute for Trauma Studies in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, and an alumna of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and Global Mental Health.  She holds a faculty position at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.  She is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy, where she chairs the Social and Communal Trauma Committee and its Task Force on Dialogue and Peace.  Under Logan’s vision and leadership, the International Institute for Trauma Studies has supported the development of clinical capacity and psychosocial resilience in Ukraine under conditions of war and has earned significant national recognition as best practices in trauma training and treatment. 

In 2025, Logan was awarded an honorary doctorate and named Professor Emerita for her scholarship in trauma education, contemplative neuroscience, and community psychoanalysis.  She is a contributing author at the Kettering Foundation, where she writes on trauma, moral courage, democracy, and peacebuilding.  Across her clinical, educational, and humanitarian work, Dr. Logan is committed to strengthening relational, communal, and democratic capacities in response to violence, displacement, and collective trauma, with particular attention to intervening in multigenerational trauma its inception point.

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