VFH Violence & Community Center
Healing Resources
Tough Times Companion
The Center has a busy publications program, producing materials for use by survivor groups, theoretical pieces, books, and occasional publications. Foremost of these is Tough Times Companion, produced biennially, a collection of poetry, photography, and essays for people suffering difficult times. It is available free and distributed to hospitals, shelters, clinics, sexual assault centers, and doctors’ offices.
Order a copy in the VFH Store (you only pay shipping)
Request a free copy now via email
After Violence
Also available for public use are the After Violence series, small pamphlets that explore the different pains of living after war and other violence, and suggest how people might deal with them.
- An Odd Set of Problems (pdf)
- Loneliness (pdf)
- Telling is Watering the Flower of Sadness (pdf)
- Winter (pdf)
Essays
Over the years, the Center has contributed to perspectives on violence in the new field of violence studies. Here are several pieces that represent the Center perspective, written by the founding director, Roberta Culbertson.
- War and the Nature of Ultimate Things (doc)
- Rebuilding After War as a Humanities Question (doc)
- Charting the Natural Consequences of War (doc)
- The Shamanic and the Experience of Violence (doc)
