Moonstone Arts presents
Conflict & Poetry: An Interactive Workshop. 2pm-4pm
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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 Alike 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.
Restorative practice uses deliberative decision-making processes to:
- respond to harm with healing in justice system programs;
- manage relationships in educational, workplace, and other communities; &
- link individual healing with institutional reform in redress schemes.
Dr David Moore and Dr Alikki Vernon are Australian ‘pracademics’, who remain actively engaged with fellow educators and researchers while working as facilitators in each of these applications.
In their 2024 book Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice, they explain how:
- restorative processes support people to learn, heal, and work together to improve their circumstances;
- techniques from restorative practice can also assist citizens’ assemblies to develop socially acceptable and appropriately complex policies for government.
The reforming potential of restorative practice is great. The need for further restorative reform urgent. Practical skills are essential for that reform.
Dr Moore and Dr Vernon will describe:
- core skills for facilitating different restorative processes;
- programs that apply these skills, to work with people to set relations right.
The audience and poets will participate with Moore and Vernon to consider pathways out of the impasses that inhibit our creativity as humans.