The Transformative Power of Embodiment and Play
Facilitating meaningful dialogue and transformation in social justice and educational spaces requires more than intellectual engagement. It demands practices that reconnect us with our bodies and open space for creative possibility. In a world that often prioritizes productivity over presence, embodiment grounds us in agency, care, and deeper listening to ourselves, while play offers an energizing and imaginative pathway to dreaming and transformation.
Mazorca Facilitation presents The Transformative Power of Embodiment and Play, a two-hour participatory workshop designed to explore how embodiment deepens our presence and engagement, and how play can be a source of resilience, creativity, and collective worldbuilding. Through movement-based and playful methodologies, we will create a space for participants to step outside dominant modes of thinking and relating, fostering new ways of being together that center joy, agency, and possibility.
Rooted in the wisdom of Black and Indigenous traditions, decolonial thought, and popular education, this workshop invites participants to explore the liberatory potential of the body and imagination. By integrating embodied practices with the transformative energy of play, we cultivate the conditions for deepened connection, unlearning, and radical imagination. Embodiment and play allow us to rehearse the world we are interested in creating into being—offering us a space to practice the possibilities we wish to make real.