Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman is a certified trauma-informed practitioner and trainer, as well as a grief worker, educator, storyteller and artist. An internationally recognized playwright who has worked across North American, Sarah spent four years on the literary team of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. As an educator, Sarah has worked as an adjunct professor of playwriting and script analysis at The University of Illinois Chicago, in high schools, elementary schools, summer camps, homeless shelters and prisons, making sure people of all backgrounds have tools and access to their own voice and story. For 5 years Sarah was the Director of Hearts to Art, a performing arts program for young people who have experienced the death of a parent. Currently she works for Project: Humanity in Toronto – an organization that uses the arts and community as the antidote for helplessness and hopelessness.
Fostering belonging isn’t difficult, but it does take some understanding of how people’s brains work and how we are likely to interact with each other.
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