Create third spaces

For over 30 years playwright David Edgar has used his writing to take on the far right.  Here he is writing about healing community divisions - an issue which many of us deal with in our work.  "And every one working in this field agrees that the thing you don't do, when attempting to get groups of young people to know more about each other, is to bring one side into the other's territory.  Rather, you create third spaces, unfamiliar to both, in which different groups can share a similar experience of discovery.  Sometimes such spaces allow people to detach aspects of their identity (cultural, vocational, sexual) from what they have hitherto seen as its essential and dominating character.  Often it is within rather than between groups that the real processes of discovery occur.  In any event, it is in such spaces - youth groups, drama workshops, sports teams- that some of the most imaginative and successful forms of community healing have taken place."

Source-Senscot