The Scapegoat Workshop with Dave Donnellan
Venue: Margaret Aylward Centre, Glasnevin, Dublin 11
Date: Saturday, 28 March, 2015
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Cost: €30 (Deposit €15) - Bring packed lumch. Tea/coffee provided.
Scapegoating continues to be a foundational dynamic in human interactions. In this workshop on the eve of Passion Week we look at how the Passion Narrative for the first time in human history definitively revealed this mechanism to us in all its detail. In this participative and experiential workshop, in addition to a short input on Rene Girard, participants will be given an opportunity to explore their own experience of the topic. Using the work of Rene Girard to guide us we will look at the origin of the Scapegoat Mechanism, how scapegoating affects human interactions and the challenge of moving beyond scapegoating.
Cost: €30.00 – Deposit: €15.00 | Bring a packed lunch Tea/coffee provided | Booking essential
Dave Donnellan is a member of the Partners in Faith adult faith education team. Over the past six years he has made a special study of the work of Girard and more recently presented a paper at the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, the annual Girard conference, applying Girardian theory to the Corrib Gas controversy.