We begin by naming the many kinds of exile: from land, from family, from identity. We use your concept of “dislocation beneath the surface” to ask: What have we had to leave behind? What stories have been denied?

This session explores betrayal not only as something done to us – but something we must sometimes commit to survive. Drawing from Cixous, Zornberg, and our own writing on spiritual rupture, we consider the price of freedom and the ethics of departure.

Here we turn to the aftermath. How do we piece together a self after fracture? We explore the idea of “refuge in becoming” and building identities that aren’t tethered to false loyalty. We invite participants to reframe loss as generative.

Finally, we wrestle with the impossibility of full return. Using our lens on narrative reparation, we hold the tension between yearning and reality. What does it mean to come home to yourself, even when no place welcomes you back?