Conflict and Poetry: An Interactive Workshop

In a time fraught with political strife and armed conflict, how can we reframe, heal, and continue to live in the midst of destruction, chaos, and loss? We seem to have forgotten that we are all human beings. Where is our empathy? How do we reconcile? How do we survive? In an effort to inspire people embroiled in conflict (all of us), to meet and create dialogue across differences for the sake of resolving heartbreak, damage and personal or cultural loss.

Australian authors, David B. Moore and Alikki Vernon, writers of Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice, have provided the backgrounds and the methods for humane ways to make peace. They will share knowledge on the possibilities occasioned by people seeking repair and resolution.

The audience and poets will participate with Moore and Vernon to consider pathways out of the impasses that inhibit our creativity as humans.

Host or Publisher Moonstone Arts Center