Summary:

How do we narrate our singular and socio-historical memories? How do our bodies, our creative activities and our diverse narratives forge and renew memories for these times? This brief article reflects an exercise that does not seek to answer but rather to engage with these questions within and across time. To do so, it brings together three perspectives drawn from differing experiences in Guatemala: that of a UnitedStatesian community-cultural psychologist who has worked with survivors of political violence from the 1980s to the present; that of Argentine human rights workers who facilitated creative workshops and clinical interventions with families of the detained and disappeared during and after the country’s dictatorship and later accompanied workers in rural Guatemala; and finally, that of a young UnitedStatesian student who experienced Antigua, Guatemala, as a high school volunteer and who now, close to graduating from university, has renewed her commitment to Guatemala from a different time and place.

Key words: Guatemala | memory | narrative | research