{"id":2889,"date":"2020-06-26T20:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.cohds.com\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:53:41","slug":"lisa-ndejuru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/lisa-ndejuru\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Ndejuru"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegh92q-eeee95326c735ca138799079de218803\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-kaegh92q-eeee95326c735ca138799079de218803 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-eeee95326c735ca138799079de218803 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock member_tagline'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\">Chercheuse<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0\">\n.flex_column.av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegkhpa-61fbd5dd9b06f89fbdfcf833dc752e60\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-61fbd5dd9b06f89fbdfcf833dc752e60 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-61fbd5dd9b06f89fbdfcf833dc752e60 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kaegkhpa-61fbd5dd9b06f89fbdfcf833dc752e60 av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-1243 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1243 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Lisa-Ndejuru-2-e1688656046459.jpg\" alt='' title='Lisa Ndejuru-2'  height=\"350\" width=\"350\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56\">\n.flex_column.av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-a4bd548fb113ac38bd4baec72f7092ab '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Dr Lisa Ndejuru is a psychotherapist, researcher, artist, and community organizer whose work sits at the intersection of healing, culture, and knowledge creation. She is the founder of Omora Healing, a Canadian nonprofit that holds her clinical, research, cultural, and training work across three continents.<br \/>\nShe currently serves as Senior KAP Clinician and co-lead on model development at the Ketamine-Assisted Treatment and Research Centre (KTRC) at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, and as Clinical Director of the Black Healing Centre in Montreal. She is an affiliate faculty researcher at Concordia University, where she was a primary researcher on Community-Centred Knowledges (CCK): Fostering Black Wellness in Montreal, an SSHRC-funded community-university research project.<br \/>\nHer transnational project Waking Our Stories explores wellness, precolonial oral tradition, storytelling, knowledge creation and transmission, identities, research-creation, and future imaginaries. In June 2025, she presented Mort m\u00e9moires amour, a sortie de r\u00e9sidence at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Espace Go drawing on texts from the Rwandan precolonial oral tradition woven into the oral history and performance work of the Seedings Collective.<br \/>\nA skilled practitioner of Playback Theatre and Moreno psychodrama, she co-founded the Montreal-based Living Histories Ensemble and has experimented extensively with storytelling, play, and improvised theatre. Her dissertation, Oral History and Performance in the Aftermath of Organized Violence: An Epistemological Contribution, won the Concordia University Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prize in the social sciences.<br \/>\nBorn in Rwanda, she has served the Rwandan diaspora in North America for more than 25 years as an organizer, researcher, and activist. Her work is focused on individual and collective meaning-making and empowerment for Black communities in the aftermath of large-scale political violence and the dislocations of our lives.<br \/>\nShe holds a PhD from Concordia University, is a licensed psychotherapist (Ordre des psychologues du Qu\u00e9bec), and holds certifications in Moreno psychodrama and third-party neutral conflict resolution. She is the 2023 recipient of the AMI-Qu\u00e9bec Ella Amir Award for Innovations in Mental Health and was recognized by CBC as a Black Changemaker.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affilie-e-s-chercheur-euse-s","category-affilie-e-s-principaux-ales","category-communaute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26640,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/26640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}