Echoes of Partition: Healing Intergenerational Trauma

The Partitions across the Indian subcontinent reshaped families, identities, and histories. Even gen...... The Partitions across the Indian subcontinent reshaped families, identities, and histories. Even generations later, their emotional impact continues to surface through inherited fear, silence, resilience, and complex family dynamics. This panel brings together therapists, authors, and community advocates to examine how intergenerational trauma shows up today and what meaningful healing might look like. Through grounding exercises, narrative sharing, therapeutic insights, and guided reflection, we will explore how ancestral trauma is carried across generations, the emotional themes that continue to shape South Asian families and diaspora communities, and the patterns that emerge — including hypervigilance, emotional avoidance, guilt, and community mistrust. We will also discuss how storytelling can break silence and support healing, along with tools from therapeutic and community-based frameworks that help individuals and families process inherited trauma. Speakers include Nishat Uddin, MPH (Facilitator), Dr. Ammara Khalid, Psy.D, Muneera Zaidi, LMHC, Mrinal Gokhale, Ranjit Singh, and Poonam Rahman. Join us for a grounded and thoughtful conversation on how we carry the past — and how we can begin to heal it. Read more