
Peacemaking is a creative act, like the artistic process. As a peacemaker, how do you care for your imagination?
“We need to ask if our imagination have been so assaulted and co-opted by the dominant consciousness that we have been robbed of the courage or power to think an alternative thought.”
Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination
Peacemakers are people of imagination. Just like artists, they are able to imagine something rooted in the challenges at hand, yet capable of creating something does not yet exist. They bring professional skills and patience to shape the conflicting materials; but we also listen to serendipity, attune to peripheral vision, and are willing to move sideways or backward to serve what’s emerging.
In times of deep divide, peacemakers stand in the gap, making space and holding space in-between. We cross between worlds and borders respectfully as edge-walkers and bridge-builders with the sensitivity to navigate diverse perspectives. We see multiple layers—historical, political, cultural, spiritual—and often serve as translators for these contexts across divides.
Sometimes peacemakers are “trouble-maker.” When others want to “keep the peace,” we risk interrupting the fixed narratives and tell truer stories, knowing that only by truth telling healing could begin.
Does it resonate with your work?
Peacemaking is important work, but it can be lonely and exhausting. As bridges between worlds, we are often “stepped on;” and without safe spaces to articulate/process what we carry, and the pain we witness, we can lose sight of the beauty and wonder that initially called us to this path.
In 2022, I experienced what I call an “imagination burnout”—an emotional, physical, and spiritual collapse. I struggled to find words for the paradoxes and brokenness within and around me. I lost the capacity to imagine forward. But art has a way to carry what words cannot. Watercolor and poetry became my way through the burning times.
Imagination and innate creativity is a precious gift from Creator Great Spirit to each and everyone, It renews us when we step back and be surprised, refresh our hearts, and allow ourselves to sense and feel what’s possible. When we make space for it, images and insights arrive as gifts—unexpectedly.
If you feel called to have someone to walk alongside you as you move through similar landscapes to revitalize imagination, this Imagination Care Sessions is my gift to you, and it’s only open for my trusted network of peacemakers.
With my capacity, I offer 6 spots every season. Creator covers this gift; I trust that you will pay it forward in whatever way feels right to you. The journey to revitalize imagination is unique to each person and will not look the same as others’. But all journeys takes time. My ask is that we will spend a about 2.5 months over a few online sessions together (between the equinoxes and solstices).
2026 seasonal start dates:
Winter: Jan 12 – Mar 19
Spring: Mar 21 – Jun 20
Summer: Jun 22 – Sept 21
Fall: Sept 23 – Dec 20
Fill out this form, and I’ll be in touch with more details and arrange an initial online meeting for us to decide if this is a good fit. I look forward to hearing from you!
Culture care starts with identifying and articulating brokenness.
It creates a safe space for truth telling, but it does not stop here,
it starts with listening and then invites people onward
toward beauty, wholeness and healing
~ Makoto Fujimura
For me, watercolor and poetry became a way through burnout. You can read more about my slow restorative journey in this article:

autoethnographic fieldnote of a poiesis
in POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts & Communication (Volume 21, 2024, EGS Press) – my slow journey to move in and out and through burnout, making a series of poetry, watercolor and photography over eleven months. download article here