Workshop
Unwounding: a workshop with Prashan Casinader-Olds

Although their work unfolds across different disciplines, Pallavi Paul (visual artist and film scholar) and Prashan Casinader-Olds (educational psychologist and family therapist) are both drawn to questions of how beauty, wisdom, and healing might emerge from the midst of grief and conflict.

Borrowing its title from a new artwork in To Be in Someone Else’s Prayer, this workshop takes Pallavi Paul’s Te Tuhi exhibition as a point of departure to explore how perspectives from psychology and therapeutic practice might help us live with disagreement, navigate conflict, and imagine possibilities for repair.

Just as sustained attention to artwork can reveal unexpected layers of meaning, this workshop invites us to approach conflict through practices of reflection, conversation, and close attention. Participants will leave with fresh perspectives, practical ways of approaching difficult conversations, and a renewed sense of how attention and imagination can open pathways towards meaningful action and repair.

Participants are encouraged to visit Pallavi Paul’s exhibition at Te Tuhi before attending the workshop.

Light refreshments provided. This workshop is limited to 20 people.

This workshop is presented in collaboration with Te Tuhi and Spoor Books on the occasion of Pallavi Paul’s exhibition at Te Tuhi. During the exhibition, Spoor Books will present a pop-up bookshop dedicated to books from beyond the Western world, with a focus on South Asia, the African continent, and the Arab world.