Our second workshop in the November Conflict Transformation Series is all about cycles of violence and harm.

In this free workshop, participants will explore beneath the surface of the phrase “hurt people, hurt people.” How does this process actually happen in more detail and how can we interrupt these cycles? Through some breathing exercises, personal reflection, and group sharing, we will look deeper into a model from the STAR Program (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience), which shows what happens when we experience violence — the ways that we turn that energy inward or outward to others. We will then consider what it looks like breaking free from these cycles of violence.

The session will be led by Darsheel Kaur of Circle of Roots Medicine.

Biography for Darsheel Kaur

A child of Punjabi Sikh Diaspora, currently settled in Dayton, Ohio by way of Blackburn, England and Skokie, Illinois, Darsheel is on a path towards personal and collective healing, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. She uses creative expression, transformative leadership development, and reflective community-building/peacemaking circles to unearth our innate capacities towards healing and liberation. She whole-heartedly believes that the inner and interpersonal work of transforming how we relate to ourselves and one another mirrors the structural and systemic work needed to transform institutions and systems that cause harm. The philosophies of Healing Justice and Popular Education guide her work in this world as a cultural worker, creative thinker and writer, community builder and organizer, and popular educator.

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