STORIES HAVE THE POWER TO TRANSFORM
The Forgiveness Project shares stories of forgiveness in order to build hope, empathy and understanding.
STORIES HAVE THE POWER TO TRANSFORM
The Forgiveness Project shares stories of forgiveness in order to build hope, empathy and understanding.
Michael Lapsley
"I haven’t forgiven anyone, because I have no one to forgive."
Charlie Ryder
"I realised then that I had truly forgiven my father for harming me as a child. Forgiveness is a very personal journey but it can be a wonderful act of self-love."
Riham Musa
"I believe violence breeds violence and there’s no choice now for me other than to find another way."
Tony McAleer
"In that process I learned that to hold the ideology of separation, or racism, you have to have a closed heart. An open heart makes the ideology irrelevant."
Sammy Rangel
"In the end, forgiveness released me from the hate that was consuming me."
Kathleen Key
"I needed to know why he had been drinking; what had brought him to that point in his life where he had no thought for anyone else?"
Peter Woolf and Will Riley
"Talking is the only way forward. People who don’t talk (which is the majority of victims) are delaying and even maintaining the pain."
Michael Lapsley
"I haven’t forgiven anyone, because I have no one to forgive."
Charlie Ryder
"I realised then that I had truly forgiven my father for harming me as a child. Forgiveness is a very personal journey but it can be a wonderful act of self-love."
Riham Musa
"I believe violence breeds violence and there’s no choice now for me other than to find another way."
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
Self-forgiveness: Making meaning as a foundation for change
This online workshop invites participants to deeply listen, reflect and explore through creative writing prompts how making meaning can support us to reconcile ourselves with what has gone before and journey toward self-forgiveness.
