In this series of workshops hosted by Safoora Arbab, we will explore the multifaceted possibilities of the framework of nonviolence and how many of these possibilities are already being embodied and are becoming real. Instead of despair and destruction, which is all we hear in both social and mass media, this will be a space to get together and recognize emergent possibilities that offer hope for producing alternate worlds.
By watching a video or doing a reading about such emergent possibilities and existing alternatives, we will deeply discuss what it means to embody different ways of being and doing, to act both in affirmation of life and as resistance to the present socio-political systems. Together we will ask, “How can we, each in our own ways, bring such possibilities into being in our daily lives?”
As each workshop conversation will be grounded on a reading or a video that will exemplify the various components of the framework of nonviolence, participants should come prepared to discuss that in detail so that we can have a stimulating, meaningful, and empowering discussion together.
