Contemporary social systems at all levels (couples, families, work places, communities, and nations) exist in various states of divisive conflict, fragmentation, and violence. The great challenges of our time such as climate change, economic injustice, intimate violence, and ethnic conflict, require the widespread use of social healing practices such as democratization, liberation, conflict transformation, accountability, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

This symposium gathers presenters who approach the work of social healing through different methods and vantage points. Symposium presenters will consider such topics as: empathy, trust, trauma, victimization, scapegoating, and restorative justice. This symposium is sponsored by Meridian University’s Center for Social Healing and Cultural Praxis. Presenters include: Susan Griffin, Linda Blong, Ken Burrows, Sahar Driver, Terry Garcia, Larry Robinson, Kirk Schneider, Zara Zimbardo, and others.