yesterday. today. tomorrow
PATTERN ANALYSIS
This project touches on trauma, healing, AI ethics, visual data, refugee-led insight, and quantum modeling. We are especially interested in symbolic pattern recognition, Mobius strips as visual metaphors, and the ethical implications of drawing healing intelligence from those our systems have historically marginalized or discarded.
We work with art-based mental health and psychosocial support interventions for people navigating forced migration and complex life transitions. The ideas capturing parallels between clinical work, art, and the quantum world have emerged directly from that field-based work. They are not fully validated frameworks—they are an invitation.
We are currently looking for collaborators across disciplines—quantum computing, art therapy, AI development, systems design, trauma-informed tech, and cultural neuroscience.
Bryan McCormack
Founder, Yesterday Today Tomorrow YTT
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (YTT) is a global non-profit founded in Paris in 2017 by Irish artist Bryan McCormack–inspired by an exhibition of refugee children’s art. Its inception followed a thought-provoking exhibition he did, as part of the 57th International Venice Biennale, showcasing the artistic creations of thousands of refugee children.
McCormack is the visionary behind the YTT intervention itself—a trauma-informed, art-based mental health and psychosocial support model that weaves creativity into the fabric of healing. Active in France, Uganda, Italy, and the U.S., YTT uses drawing, storytelling, and theater to help displaced communities reflect on the past, connect with the present, and imagine a hopeful future. Its approach fosters belonging, resilience, and peace-building—and is now being clinically adapted for mental health programming in the U.S.
Art Based-MHPSS Intervention
What’s unique about this multifaceted approach is that it encompasses Mental Health Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), art therapy, and cross migration Peer-to-Peer (P2P) support. Utilizing a visual language database, the sharing of artwork in this project allowed refugees and asylum seekers to connect across various locations and stages of their migration journey while exchanging shared experiences, emotions, and challenges. The goal of the U.S. clinical intervention pilot project was to take a closer look at how participants engaged with the artwork of other refugees and asylum seekers within this intervention. The protocol was adapted for individual, couple, and group session methods of delivery in the U.S.
YTT Approach
Focuses on how refugee/migrant communities and populations establish their own understanding and knowledge of themselves and the world around them through their experiences and then consider and communicate these experiences visually. It is a student-centered, creative transformative approach, through art, theatre, and storytelling, concentrating on eliminating innate prejudice and implementing empathy, whilst through creativity and imagination, we entrust participants with social, emotional and capacity-building skills to affect individual change and empower them to positively contribute to society. The YTT Approach is defined by two distinct elements, the YTT Visual Language and the YTT Methodology.
About
Since 2017, YTT has grown into an international non-profit, developing, and implementing psychosocial support approaches through art & theatre that, in line with the 2030 SDGs, also teaches gender-equality, human-rights and peacebuilding/conflict resolution as well as fostering empathy, inclusion & diversity whilst reducing discrimination, racism and prejudice. The YTT Approach functions within Education in Emergencies (EiE) informal settings for communities impacted by conflict or disaster and within formal structures for school-going students.
This Approach, using art, theatre, storytelling, social and emotional learning, empathy, self-awareness, and self-expression is based on YTT’s academic & psychosocial support research and educational program development. In EiE, it has been instructed to thousands of refugee/migrant populations, in more than 40 refugee sites around the world and is founded on directly transferring the method, programs and knowledge to in-country educators/local staff who apply, co-develop, and operate the programs. YTT believes that to obtain long-term sustainability and real-world impact, it is necessary to work hand-in-hand developing and implementing their approach with locally based educators coming generally from Refugee-Led-Organizations (RLOs) and/or Community-Based Organizations (CBOs). In formal school environments, it has been taught by teachers/professors to thousands of students in primary & high-schools, institutions and universities across Europe and Northern Africa.
For more information on YTT visit their website at https://www.yttassociation.org/
Learn more about setting up training for YTT Art based MHPSS.
Currently seeking partners for funding to review and analyze art data sets relevant to qubit stabilization, quantum computing, and the development of AI.
collaborators
Chelsea Stewart, LMHC
U.S. YTT Trained Clinician
Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Chelsea is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a passion for empowering individuals and communities. Graduating with honors from the University of South Florida, Chelsea holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling. She completed training and implemented the YTT clinical pilot at a local NGO. Her advocacy and clinical expertise includes working with refugees and asylum seekers post migration, perinatal health, support for survivors of domestic violence, advocacy for homeless veterans, and counseling within educational settings.
YTT U.S. Clinical Team
Dr. Carla Pullium, Psychologist
Gabriela Spicer, LPC Associate
Anne Villano, LCSW