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Welcome to Towards Understanding and Healing.

Towards Understanding and Healing is an organisation that recognizes individual experience in the context of the larger story of conflict in Northern Ireland. Towards Understanding and Healing offers a safe space for people to begin to articulate personal stories and also to listen to other stories, or “truths,” in a way that does not diminish their own experience. Because of Northern Ireland’s diverse history and culture, no one person can tell the story of the past thirty years. This project emphasizes the need to bring together all of the disparate narratives that comprise the story of Northern Ireland in order to better understand the effects of the past and the potential of the future.

New:

Towards Understanding and Healing has finished the training resource. The culmination of a year's work, we are excited to have a brand new resource designed to train trainers in the work of storytelling facilitiation. For more information, check out our Projects, or contact The Junction to learn more about this work.

The Junction is funded by the Community Relations Council
through the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation.

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			~ A Storytelling & Dialogue Project~ Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

	Welcome to Towards Understanding and Healing. Towards Understanding and Healing is an organisation that recognizes individual experience in the context of the larger story of conflict in Northern Ireland. Towards Understanding and Healing offers a safe space for people to begin to articulate personal stories and also to listen to other stories, or “truths,” in a way that does not diminish their own experience. Because of Northern Ireland’s diverse history and culture, no one person can tell the story of the past thirty years. This project emphasizes the need to bring together all of the disparate narratives that comprise the story of Northern Ireland in order to better understand the effects of the past and the potential of the future. New: Towards Understanding and Healing has finished the training resource. The culmination of a year's work, we are excited to have a brand new resource designed to train trainers in the work of storytelling facilitiation. For more information, check out our Projects, or contact The Junction to learn more about this work.

	Project Aims: To facilitate the coming together of individuals from diverse groups to tell and hear stories in a safe environment. To facilitate a dialogue that allows people to speak fully and be listened to whilst creating opportunities for the exploration of each other's ideology, perceptions, attitudes, and sense of history. To develop strategies that enable individuals to access further support structures that allow them to move forward. To maintain ongoing links and create new links as ways of sharing ideas, models, and structures at local, national, and international levels, and to continually learn from other people's post-conflict experience. To build the capacity and sustainability of the organisation. — Download the Mission Statement, Aims, Objectives, and Work Plan — Download the Towards Understanding and Healing Brochure — Download the "Storytelling Process" Brochure — Download the "TUH Submission to the Consultative Group on the Past"

		The Junction is funded by the Community Relations Council through the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation.


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