COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIAL HEALING, COMMUNITY HEALING, AND THE ROLE OF “HEALING LEADER”

The guideline of "community-based social healing" is relevant nowadays. It is based on the importance of community in supporting individual healing (treatment and maintaining wholeness) and the efficiency of civil society. The article defines that the reverse and interdependent side of working with the community – both when the community is the goal of grassroots initiatives and when it is a means of "community-based social healing" – is the need for "community healing". A special need, urgent for the healing of collective traumas, is defined as the formation ("healing") of a specific healing community, which can be called "transformative" or "processual", which is aimed at the very process of transformation. The term "healing leader" is proposed to denote the special role in external healing intervention – for a person who serves the community, supports it from within, and at the same time, must maintain an external position for permanent analysis and readjustment.