Interactive Workshops & Trainings
Cultivating Spaces of Critical Self-Reflection, Healing, & Transformation
Introduction
As a facilitator, my work lives at the intersections of the arts, healing, equity, building critical-consciousness, and self-reflection. My work promotes personal transformation in order to inspired and enact societal change. I believe knowing oneself and healing are critical components of sustainable activism and living a life of purpose.
As a facilitator, I am:
Dynamic, engaging, and patient. I listen. Go with the flow. Take risks. I create in-person and virtual spaces where being together is filled with care. I read the room and improvise a planned agenda so that we meet the program’s goals and participants’ evolving needs.
Skilled in creating spaces of trust and vulnerability where deeper conversations, (un)learning, and greater healing can take place.
Adept at cultivating spaces where participants are co-creators. No one is sitting quietly in the back of the room. Everyone is brought on board to connect with and have a stake in what is being shared.
My approach
I use writing and storytelling as tools of connection to self and others, to deepen critical self-reflection, and build solidarity across groups. My facilitation includes embodied exercises, small, and large group discussions for participants to unlearn, unearth, and embody greater truths.
I am trained in creating affirming, anti-oppressive spaces that allow participants of marginalized identities to be present and invite their full selves. I work to create spaces that are safer containers for (un)learning and connection to happen. I am experienced in doing so for a variety of ages that include youth, university students, and non-profit, and corporate staff.
Contact me below to inquire about working together.
Sample Workshops
Below are sample workshops I have facilitated for groups locally and nationally. I am experienced in working with a range of audiences and can tailor workshops to affinity spaces depending on intention and need. Workshops can be shaped to different duration and contexts.
Roots, Lineage, & Power: Writing to Connect with Ourselves
a generative writing workshop to connect with your creative power
In order to know where we are going, we must know who we are, and from where we come. In a society filled with external noise and push and pulls, it is easy to feel disconnected from ourselves. Writing helps us return. In this generative creative writing workshop, participants will connect more deeply with their own inner voices through the power of poetry. We will dive into the timelessness of writing through generative prompts that ask us to reflect on our roots and lineages to build a greater understanding towards the directions we are headed, and the dreams we seek that seek us too. All writing experiences are welcome.
We Create Medicine
a writing & herbalism workshop to resource yourself in trying times
We live in trying times. You are not meant to walk this road alone. In this writing & herbal tea blend making workshop, we will create medicine to resource ourselves. Participants will engage in body-based grounding practices and write to reflect on self and collective care. They will learn about plant allies: everyday herbs that support with stress and anxiety relief, and nervous system regulation. Participants will leave with their own custom herbal tea blend to support the new ideas to care for themselves in trying times.
Shedding Old Skin: Writing to Take Charge of the Narratives of Our Lives
a generative writing workshop to rewrite the narratives of our lives
What are the stories of our lives we carry that are ready to be transformed? What happens when we allow ourselves to grow and change? How can writing help us get there? In this generative creative writing workshop, participants will read poetry and delve into writing "re-tellings." They will be guided to tell a personal story that they will then rewrite the ending of. Together, we will use writing to shed old skin to welcome in newness. All writing experiences are welcome.
Freedom Meditation: Activating Your Dreams
a healing-centered & writing workshop to dream bigger for your life
What dreams do you have on the backburner that have been calling you? In order to realize our dreams, we must be able to exercise our imaginations to see and feel them. In this meditation and writing workshop, participants will be guided to activate the visions and dreams for their lives. They will participate in body-based grounding practices, unwind, and dream bigger for their lives despite current circumstances.
Queerness as Possibility and Magic
a generative workshop to reclaim narratives of existence
In ancient cultures and traditions globally, trans people were seen as healers, leaders, teachers, and magic makers. In the U.S., queerness is often framed as deprivation and fault, confined to set words for gender and sexuality. Yet, queerness is also about abundance and possibility. This workshop roots us deep in legacies of queer and transness within communities of color globally to highlight erased narratives of existence. Through sharing my own story and journey into my identities, I use generative prompts to encourage participants to delve into their own understandings of gender and sexuality, connected to their greater expansiveness. We unearth possibilities within and define what it means to be queer outside of the colonial gaze and constructs.
