Hyam Tannous is an Arab Christian woman counseling and guidance therapy from 1997-2017.  She has a master’s degree in guidance and counseling from Haifa university.   She oversaw 400 counselors in the north of Israel who worked under her guidance. She trained Jewish and Arab counselors on several subjects in psychology and therapy so that they could help schools, teachers, parents, and pupils to fulfill their maximum potentials and be in their wellness from a point of psychological awareness.

From 2000 to 2016 she was head of a non-violence committee at all the Jewish and Arabs schools in the north of Israel and planned several programs for schools to get better positive climate and emotional dialogues. She gave lectures on emotional dialogues, conflict resolution, sexual education, class consultation’ school coordination and program managing in more than 200 schools.

Her love, belief, and concern both for the Palestinians and the Jewish state of Israel brought her to be an active member of promoting dialogues between the Jewish and Palestinian people, including the Palestinian authority. Several activities took place at the Golda Meir center in Haifa with the assistance of the Ministry of education, 300 Palestinians women from the west bank took part in six seminars for two years to bring light and hope to both sides.

In 2004 she was one of the organizers of” From memory to peace”, an Arab initiative to feel the pain of their neighbors where preparations and Seminars were held for 500 Arabs, Jews, and French persons who took a journey to Auschwitz concentrations camps, to understand the pain of the Jewish people, to know them better, to  release both people from the hatred and the fear of each other.  In 2007 she was a member of a team who wrote the book “Careful Listening and conversations, Creating Dialogue between Members of conflicting Multi cultural groups”. The book was written with an approach based on the narrative therapy theory developed by Michel White.

Hyam participated in conferences around the world, giving lectures and workshops in the Narrative therapy (New York, Ohio, Netherlands, and Washington).

In 2016 she became a member of Women Wage Peace.  She is for the second time a member of the steering committee, doing her best to be a bridge between the Palestinian society and the Israeli one.