Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue 11, 1 May 2019 | Page 25

And yet at the same time, in the camp there is hope, love, and caring.
Smiling faces and friendships.
I have come to Moria refugee camp to share, teach and treat refugees,
volunteers and staff with the Trauma Tapping Technique (TTT) and other
EP techniques like Self-Havening and Head-holding. Everybody here
needs it. It is a pure joy to be able to share these tools for managing
stress and trauma and to realise over and over that they really make a
difference. Sometimes, they make a huge difference, like in the case of
the small and violently traumatised Kurdish boy the psychologists of
Doctors Without Borders asked me to meet. I will tell you more about him
soon.
This was my fourth time on Lesbos. My colleague Ulf Sandström and I
came here first in 2015 during a time when thousands of refugees were
swept up on the shores of Lesbos in heavily overloaded rafts. We met
Siyana Mahroof, MD, who had set up a small clinic for Primary Health
Care in one of the camps on the island. We explained and demonstrated
tapping for her after one of her 18-hour working days (it was a very
intense time of emergency.) She found the calming effect of the tapping
very powerful.
Since then, Ulf and I have been in many places, working mainly in East
and Central Africa, while Siyana has built an organisation for refugees in
Greece: Kitrinos Health Care.
In January, 2018 I got a call on WhatsApp:
“Gunilla, it is Siyana. We need you in Greece. Can you come, please,
and see what you can do? There is so much stress and trauma in the
camps and nobody knows how to deal with it!!”
“Sure, let´s see what we can do.” I replied.
Since then we have been giving trainings and treatments both in the
medical clinic of Kitrinos and in different refugee camps - both on the
mainland close to Thessaloniki and on some of the islands.
There are camps on eight different islands, and all are located close to
the Turkish coast from where refugees cross over in rafts and other small
boats.