Conversations on self-forgiveness
We are excited to present to you a series of online conversations exploring the questions, complexities and ambiguities that make self-forgiveness so very hard.
Hosted by our Programme Development Lead, Sandra Barefoot, in conversation with our storytellers, this series explores the perspectives and insights of our storytellers who have experienced prison, domestic violence and the death of family and friends.
Self-forgiveness is the hardest because it’s so bound up with regret, self-pity, shame, with guilt that it’s very very hard to move beyond that. You don’t just feel pain, in a way you are the pain. You’re the cause of the pain. – Marina Cantacuzino, Founder of The Forgiveness Project
These conversations are available fully captioned on Vimeo. We ask a small fee for each video, both to support our future work and also to afford privacy and respect to our storytellers who have been willing to share so much of themselves in these intimate conversations.
If you have any questions about the series or would like to discuss collaboration on this work, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@theforgivenessproject.com.
Watch conversations on self-forgiveness
About the host
Sandra Barefoot has worked for over 13 years leading our prison programme RESTORE. Her extensive experience in facilitating group processes exploring trauma, shame and pain led her to understand how difficult and almost impossible it feels to forgive ourselves for what we have done. In hosting these conversations, Sandra hopes to explore and grapple with the complexities, nuance and unexpected places where self-forgiveness can arrive.
Creative writing workshop
The series “Conversations on self-forgiveness” is also available as part of our online creative writing workshop “Self-forgiveness: Making meaning as a foundation for change”.
The 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. Please follow the button below to explore more.