Abstract
In considering his “takeaways” from the TWP workshop in Jamaica, the author observes that it provided an intellectually and emotionally safe space to engage in authentic conversations while building community, giving birth to profound insights, understanding, respect, trust, and effective solidarity. He sees the workshop’s inclusion of the emotional dimension in academic writing as welcome but contrary to the inherited British philosophy of education in the Caribbean, particularly for men. This unexpected marriage of head and heart was a welcome encounter for him and something he views as an important element of engagement in the raw historical and contemporary experience of African and Caribbean people rooted in a holistic response to enslavement and colonisation, and the mutual desire to engage in repair.
