{"id":35164,"date":"2017-10-06T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=35164"},"modified":"2017-10-09T11:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:21:36","slug":"emu-education-provides-powerful-energy-journeys-resilience-deep-spiritual-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/emu-education-provides-powerful-energy-journeys-resilience-deep-spiritual-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU preps multi-talented Chilean alumni for doctoral religious studies, peacebuilding dialogue in the Jewish community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Channah Fonseca-Quezada and David Quezada talk about their personal journeys that have merged and taken them from their native Chile to the United States and now to Canada, one thing is clear: 草莓社区 is integral in their stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[Since attending EMU, the couple, formerly known as Anita and Cristian, have begun using their Jewish names.]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Channah completed a master\u2019s degree in religion at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/seminary\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eastern Mennonite Seminary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but also took courses through the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (CJP), including <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/star\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">David, who studied law in Chile, attended CJP and earned a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/graduate-programs\/conflict-transformation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">master\u2019s degree in conflict transformation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. There he also assisted professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/cjs989\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carolyn Stauffer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2015\/02\/research-on-domestic-abuse-among-latina-homeless-and-conservative-mennonite-women-earns-justpax-grant\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silent Violence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a storytelling project for survivors of domestic violence, and professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/zehrh\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Howard Zehr<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the ongoing translation into Spanish of his book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Changing Lenses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">\u201cThere are so many key aspects of who we are and that will never leave us that were borne out of EMU.\u201d<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, Channah finished a master of theology degree from the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/vst.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vancouver School of Theology<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the couple has since moved to Hamilton, Ontario, where Channah is beginning her doctoral studies at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmaster.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McMaster University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and David is looking for opportunities to develop processes of dialogue in the Jewish community about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While at EMU, the pair collaborated on various projects, one of which was offering <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2014\/06\/couple-to-facilitate-womens-healing-workshops-at-emmanuel-episcopal-church\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">workshops for Hispanic women<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> coping with past trauma and the pressures of a new country and being ostracized due to immigration status. The workshops were built on the idea that doing art \u2014 painting, drawing, photography, poetry and more \u2014 would help participants reflect on their experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Channah and David, facilitating reflection was a natural extension of their own experiences at EMU, where personal reflection was central to their formative coursework. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor us, having that time of introspection and learning at EMU is what made us what we are today,\u201d Channah reflected recently. \u201cThere are so many key aspects of who we are and that will never leave us that were borne out of EMU.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Attuned to trauma<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two years after they were married, Channah and David experienced the physical trauma of an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile in 2010. But they are also attentive to historical and societal trauma, including their own, and EMU was a place where they could explore, share and grow from their experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35172\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35172 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/10\/1000px_0001_US-7-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/10\/1000px_0001_US-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/10\/1000px_0001_US-7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/10\/1000px_0001_US-7.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an artistic representation of their work, David holds a book &#8216;Dignity&#8217; by Donna Hicks and Channah a Tibetan singing bowl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both Channah and David were raised in Christian families with Jewish ancestry, and have since \u2014 together \u2014 chosen Judaism. That wasn\u2019t a quick or easy transition, and it put them in touch with their own families\u2019 historical trauma stemming from the Inquisition long ago and subsequent discrimination and persecution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More immediate, though, was the trauma of growing up under the rule of the dictator General Augusto Pinochet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">David remembers checking his family\u2019s household garbage to make sure no evidence of black market items or political dissent could be be found by anyone who might look through their trash. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou were always scared of saying what your political views were because you didn\u2019t know who you were talking to, and if something you said would go back to the army,\u201d Channah said. \u201cThere were a lot of people who were paid by the dictatorship to spy on other people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Such threats meant that homogeneity was valued highly: not standing out was safer. Channah said that translates into \u201c\u2018Don\u2019t be anything that makes you stand out and be different, because you could be in danger.\u2019 Even though that\u2019s not the case anymore, that\u2019s how trauma works. The traumatic stress is still there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even though Pinochet\u2019s rule ended in the 1990s, David added, the government was still considered \u201ctransitional\u201d as late as 10 years ago, and he described the ongoing environment as one not welcoming of minorities, hugely divided along economic and political lines, and subtly violent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat kind of violence is invisible, if you look just superficially, but it\u2019s really strong and it has really deep roots in the culture,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Not just a defining language<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was in that context that David trained in Chile as a human rights lawyer, motivated by \u201cgrowing up seeing too many injustices against the people I loved, and a kind of rebellion against the imposed narrative of oppressor\/oppressed that I experienced,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought that through justice this dynamic could be changed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35173\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35173 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/10\/1000px_0002_exhibit-15-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/10\/1000px_0002_exhibit-15-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/10\/1000px_0002_exhibit-15-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/10\/1000px_0002_exhibit-15.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Channah Fonseca-Quezada and David Quezada with &#8220;Visual Echoes of Voices Unseen,&#8221; a traveling photo exhibit they created while at EMU for NewBridges Immigrant Resource Center in Harrisonburg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it wasn\u2019t until coming to EMU that his current foundation for peacebuilding was established, and as a CJP graduate student, David says, he learned the language that has since defined his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI lacked a lot of the language about peacebuilding, of conflict transformation,\u201d he said. \u201cI realized that justice is just one element in the process of social transformation and part of what, as a society, we should do so as to aim to build healthy communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don&#8217;t know if the people at CJP see the magnitude of the training that they are providing,\u201d he added, \u201cbut without that I couldn\u2019t be working in the healthy way I\u2019m approaching the society, the community where we are working right now. All those peace concepts within the Mennonite tradition are really important for us, even if we are not Mennonite \u2014 even for people of different religions, different traditions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Being educated at EMU in that new language of peacebuilding, though, was not solely technical. \u201cYou have this safe environment where you can speak about your background, where you can relate with other people of other traditions. That was a powerful energy in our journeys,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Contributions to Biblical studies<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Channah also credits her time at EMU with bringing her academic Biblical studies into focus, in part thanks to the advising of professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/hartb\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barry Hart<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, known for his work in trauma, identity and conflict studies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hart was David\u2019s practicum advisor \u2014 and became friends, he said \u2014 and when Channah asked him to be her thesis advisor, he was \u201chonored, and intrigued\u201d by the thesis topic: the relationship between religious meditation, Hebrew chant and the trauma healing process. He said Channah has an ability \u201cto <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">see<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and explain complex spiritual and psychological relationships \u2014 for the purpose of self-understanding and from a desire to help others traumatized by violence of all kinds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While there are many who are exploring the intersection between psychology and Biblical studies, Channah said, she seeks out themes of resilience and dignity, themes that at EMU she realized were central in her own life starting in her childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGrowing up a Latina was a difficult experience, with all the machismo and the sexism and really not feeling like I was a first-class citizen,\u201d she remembers. As a 10-year-old child traveling with her father, a Baptist pastor who visited seminaries and attended conferences with Channah and her three-years-younger brother in tow, people would ask her brother what he wanted to be when he grew up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI was not looked at at all,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was subtle, but it told me, \u2018You don\u2019t really matter. You don\u2019t get to have choices, because you\u2019re not a man.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When she decided to attend college, people asked her, \u201cWhy would you want to do that?\u201d When she decided to pursue a master\u2019s degree, she was asked, \u201cWell, isn\u2019t that a little too much?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even today some in her extended family still don\u2019t understand why she\u2019s entering a doctoral program. \u201cIt still doesn\u2019t fully register that women are just as capable as men. It feels so ridiculous to even say it, because of course they are,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Somehow, though, even way back as a child, something was driving her, something she can\u2019t really pinpoint. It could have come from having also spent several of her formative years living in Canada and seeing a different form of society \u2014 or, she wonders, \u201cWas it the Shekhina, the Hebrew name for divine presence, for the energy of God? I wonder if it can be that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">\u201cWe are very proud that the Mennonite culture in us is key. We were changed by the Mennonite culture at EMU.\u201d<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spiritual director and Eastern Mennonite Seminary professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/clarkka?ssi=seminary\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kevin Clark<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> noted a \u201cparticular resiliency\u201d in Channah, and the \u201cinterplay of her own inner narrative and the context around her which emerged as resourceful and creative engagement,\u201d he said. \u201cI appreciated the integrity with which she asked the questions of experience and the Holy, immersed at times in the silence of prayerful awareness which, in turn, inspired artistic expression and a discerned way forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whatever it was that was moving her, when Channah \u2014 and David \u2014 eventually came to EMU, they immersed themselves in the community, earning not just graduate degrees but also \u201cthe respect of many for their deep spiritual wrestling and personal integrity,\u201d Hart said. \u201cWe were given a gift when they joined us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere is something about EMU\u2019s openness and sense of safety it creates, and the inclusiveness of people from different parts of the world,\u201d Channah said. \u201cEven though we\u2019re all so different, we\u2019re on the same wavelength of creating community and peacebuilding, and that creates a sort of connection that really opened our eyes not just to learning about others, but to learning about ourselves and where we wanted our journeys to take us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe have many, many cultural things in our family,\u201d David added. \u201cWe are Mennonite, we are Jewish, we are Latin American, we are minority \u2014 but we are very proud that the Mennonite culture in us is key. 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