Terminology: transgression; attachment; failed witness; dissociation; rupture and repair; witnessing; asymmetry of power
- What happens to your identity when you become a member of a group?
- What do you understand by the term 'witnessing'? Can you give examples?
- Can you think of an example of failed witnessing of an individual or a community?
- How does dialogue help members of Combatants for Peace, given the imbalance of power, when they are in conflict?
Building Skills
- How can group members be helped to identify their own and others' identities and retain them?
- Having recognised different identities, what sort of work on difference might be helpful?
- What team building would you suggest to establish relationships and the aims and purpose of the group?
- How would you build a programme to help groups deal with external and internal imbalance of power?
- Build a model for witnessing individual and/or community trauma that includes empathic listening and feeling and recognition.