Media & Articles
Videos
Media Features
Post Traumatic Growth (after COVID-19) – Dr Sousan Abadian
Post Traumatic Growth (after COVID-19) – Dr Sousan Abadian
Does Collective Trauma Create Destructive Leaders? | Dr. Sousan Abadian
LEAD Masterclass with Sousan Abadian | April 24
Embracing Change Webinar | Sousan - Leadership Coach, PhD, Harvard Univ., Shreyasi Singh | 23 March
"I can’t thank you enough for an informative, inspiring presentation… you gave me hope for our government and a reminder to continue to work on myself, to meet anger with kindness and fear with love."
- Sherry Schiller, Ph.D.
President, Schiller Center for Connective Change
Articles About Sousan's Work
Trails of Tears and Hope
"Collective trauma" takes a ferocious toll on human societies, yet there are pathways to healing.
Harvard Magazine
Publications
Generative Cultural Renewal: An Effective Resource in Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting & Other Harmful Practices, (October 2022, Waterside Publishing).
"Healing the Zoroastrian Diaspora Community - Part 3"
Chehreh Nama (198), June 2021.
"The Damage of Collective Trauma on Iranian Culture"
Transcript of Interview with Sousan Abadian, Counsel on Persian Culture, June 2020.
a short story adapted from Dr. Scott Peck, A Road Less Traveled, April 2019.
"Zoroastrian Renaissance: The Rebirth of A Chivalry of Light"
Chehreh Nama (193), March 2020.
"The Kamran Seminar 2019: Inspiring More Questions," pg. 14 of Hamazor Magazine, Issue 3.
"A Call to Awaken," pgs. 48-9 of FEZANA Journal, Fall 2019.
“Mastering Memories,” chapter in The Political Culture of Forgiveness and Reconciliation,
Leonel Narvaez, editor. Published in Latin America, August 2009, and in the U.S., 2010
“Taming the Beast: Trauma in Jewish Religious and Political Life” (co-authored with Tamar Miller), Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Volume 83, Number 2/3
“Cultural Healing: When Cultural Renewal is Reparative and when it is Toxic.”
Pimatisiwin: A J. of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health.
From Wasteland to Homeland: Trauma and the Renewal of Indigenous Peoples and their Communities (Harvard University Doctoral Thesis), June 1999.
“Nation-building in a Traumatized World" (Harvard interfaculty distribution), April 2003.
“Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Fertility,” World Development (lead article, December 1996)
The Status of Women in Bangladesh: Implications for Fertility and Population Policies
(Harvard University Master’s Thesis), June 1986.