In Conversation with Jo Berry

This conversation will explore how the concept of forgiveness can itself be seen as shaming at specific times in history. Jo Berry will delve into her extensive experiences of being shamed publicly for over 40 years and her reflections on how she continues to make meaning as a resilient act against shame.

Jo Berry founded the charity Building Bridges for Peace and is an international speaker and workshops facilitator committed to bringing peace to the world. When her father Sir Anthony Berry MP was killed in the IRA Brighton Bombing during the 1984 Tory Party Conference, Jo was thrown into a conflict she knew very little about. Since then she has visited Ireland many times and worked with victims and former combatants from all sides. In November 2000 she met Patrick Magee, the former IRA activist responsible for her father’s death.

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Hosted by Sandra Barefoot who has worked for over 13 years leading The Forgiveness Project's prison programme RESTORE. Sandra’s exploration of shame has led her to understand how vital the place of finding a new language to be able to explicitly speak of shame. In hosting these conversations, she hopes to explore the complexity of how this language shapes itself within our lives and provides us with the ability to strengthen our resilience from shame.

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