Draw new lines between teaching and healing

Project funding also creates the time and space to explore building connections and collaborations with therapists and healers, and integrate the creative arts into learning opportunities. Instead of trying to draw a line to divide these areas of work, literacy workers need to be able to explore drawing new lines to link work that is connected within each person, and imagine new programming and new collaborations. This offers new insights and supports to take the tensions and worries of the work of taking up issues of violence and learning.

Where to from here?

A key question now is whether the literacy movement will be able to build on the discourses which support diverse possibilities for teaching in ways that recognize the widespread nature of violence and the impact of violence on learning.  Change is already occurring in many individual literacy programs.  As new discourses become more broadly recognized, the simple divide between literacy and therapy may shift. Addressing the impact of violence on learning may seem less of a 'can of worms' and more enticing, offering the potential for creating nurturing spaces for workers and learners alike.
What will allow discourses of violence and education to shift radically in order to create the necessary, widespread change in the whole terrain of literacy work?