“Over the past decade, clinical psychologist and Burlington College professor Tom Verner has traveled from his home in Lincoln to more than 30 countries. Each year he has spent five to six months in communities devastated by war and natural disasters, as well as regions suffering from severe poverty and its debilitating long-term effects.
“But it is not traditional psychological services that Verner has provided to refugees in places such as Somalia, Nepal and Eastern Europe; to hurricane and tsunami victims in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Thailand; or to youngsters struggling to flourish in the red-light district of Mumbai, India, or a gang-ridden city in El Salvador.
“Instead, Verner deploys a different set of professional skills: he performs magic.”
A recent Burlington Free Press article profiled and the “magic’ ministry he and his wife offer to hope to those who are facing very difficult challenges.
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Burlington Free Press: Vermont couple uses magic to help refugees around the world (12 MAY 12)
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