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Sawbonna: Write Your Soul�s Encounter With Forgiveness
Sawbonna is a Zulu word which means: I see your soul.

Enter this workshop with a yearning to ask new questions that will find their responses in your own words. In your poetry or prose pieces, you will unearth more questions, perhaps you will find yourself grappling with new paradigms of possibility you never thought of before.

When you hear the words: the other inmate, what images, thoughts, beliefs, pictures,  come to your mind?  Is it a jail, an office; is it the fact that you fence and flounder with what it means to be truly �free�?  We are all inmates at one time or another. How do we change this? How do we forgive ourselves and other?

ANSWER: By writing our truths. All of them in a safe and supported way.

I invite you to enter this powerful workshop with a trust in the knowledge that your voice matters. With a trust that underscores that when we enter the dialogue of what it means to be victim, what it means to be offender, we enter a dialogue about our very poignant and raw humanity, which means delving into ideas: old and newly forming that shape our relationship to self and to other.

Enter this workshop ready to let your pen take you to new depths of meaning. Enter this workshop knowing that limited definitions do not have to be where our seeking, our healing, our vision stops. It is only a beginning.

I choose to share this workshop because as I continue to offer my work with Expressive Writing and Restorative Justice, Transformative Justice, I know the growth that comes; I know the light that shines through seeming endless darkness. Those who spend time with this work, find a clarity that underscores our fragile and tender humanity.

Click the PayPal link to register for this Six-Week online workshop
which includes a copy of The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hope: Poetry and Workbook for Restorative Practice.

$$250.00

$250

 

NOTE: The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hope: Poetry and Workbook for Restorative Practices, is used where Restorative Justice is valued, including The Restorative Justice Department at Queen�s University, Kingston, Ontario, and The Calgary Remand Centre. http://www.Sawbonna.com Sister Helen Prejean author of Dead Man Walking has offered affirmation to Margot for her work.

Speaker at the 11th Annual International Institute for Restorative Practices, Fall 2008, ON  http://www.iirp.org/on08/sessions.php

Speaker at the Alberta Restorative Justice Restorative Conference, Fall 2008, AB http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=647706

Speaker at the Corrections Services Canada Restorative Justice Conference, Fall 2009, AB

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Articles and Interviews:

Radio Interview with Planetary Spirit for my book: The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hope http://www.planetary-spirit.com/mp3s/PS_playlist.html 

Article Correctional Services of Canada Restorative Justice Week
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/rj/rj2008/kit/10-eng.shtml

Article in Restorative Justice Online
http://www.restorativejustice.org/resources/stories

Article from Alberta Correctional Education Association 
http://www.nald.ca/acea/newslet/sept07/sept2007.pdf

Interview from The Social Edge Faith and Social Justice Magazine
http://www.thesocialedge.com/archives/gerrymccarthy/3artsandculture-dec2006.shtml

Interview from The Telegraph India
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080423/jsp/opinion/story_9166973.jsp

Membership Spotlight The Society for Arts in Healthcare
http://www.thesah.org/template/page.cfm?page_id=417

From Soulflares Writing Community
http://www.soulflares.org/images/WildSoulWords.pdf

 

   
   
   

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