Women on the Inner Journey: Building a Bridge-Healing Racial Wounds through Art and Spirituality

Noris Binet, author of Women on the Inner Journey: Building a
Bridge

 One hundred and fifty miles north of Pulaski, Tennessee (the
birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan) a project was conceived in 1992 to help heal
the wounds caused by racism. The project, "Healing Racial Wounds"
offered women of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to meet in a safe
environment and explore a process of "Journeying to their center, the
center where we are One with creation and the creator." In this work,
a powerful collective of women writers, visual artists, poets, songwriters, and
musicians confront attitudes, fears and insecurities surrounding the issue of
race in their lives.

 Noris Binet is a visual artist and poet. She holds an honorary doctorate
in counseling and philosophy. She is a native of the Dominican Republic while
currently residing in Sonoma, California. In 1992 she foundedWomen on the
Inner Journey, a non-profit organization that promotes racial and
cultural unity through art and spirituality. Selections of her poetry have been
published in Where the Heart Is: A Celebration of Home by
Julienne Bennett and Mimi Luebberman, in the Journal of Sacred Feminine
Wisdom, Common Boundary and The Wild Heart.