Based on this experience, Juan Carlos will lead participants in circle discussion and meditation and how apology and forgiveness can help heal historical and personal trauma.

Juan Carlos Areán Ph.D. is an internationally recognized activist, public speaker, facilitator, and ordained interfaith minister. He works as a program Director for Futures Without Violence in Boston. Since 1991 he has worked on supporting the healing of men across cultures (specially himself), so they can become better fathers, intimate partners, human beings, and allies to enter to and gender-based violence and achieve gender equity and justice. He’s an active trainer, who has led hundreds of workshops and presentations throughout the United States the Americas and the Caribbean, as well as in Europe, Asia, the US Congress and the United Nations in New York and Geneva.