Creative Based Participatory Processes
Learning and Unlearning Hub
Our participatory processes support teams and communities with tools to create, gather, and imagine otherwise. We use storytelling, radical imagination, and embodiment practices to invite play, transform conflict, and deepen relationships across teams. We are inspired by Audre Lorde’s reminder that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” and by Vanessa Oliveira Machado’s insight that the tools that brought us here cannot solve the challenges we face today.
Some Examples of our work
Some Examples of our work
Sacred Facilitation Workshop with Faith-Based Social Justice Leaders in Portland, Oregon
In this process, we facilitated a three-day in-person retreat for faith-based leaders. This space explored tools to support folks in alternative worldbuilding. Using tools, frameworks, and practices that invited us to play, tell stories, and radically imagine what is possible, we built community while learning and unlearning with and from one another.
Integrating Decolonial Practices in Organizational Structure with the Methodist Oregon-Idaho Conference
A multi-month journey accompanying a group within the Methodist Church with their discernment on how profits from land sales can be distributed in ways that honor land back principles. Unfolding through multiple online sessions and two multi-day retreats and using radical imagination, popular education, and storytelling, this process supports their work of incorporating decolonial principles at a moment when Methodist institutions are grappling with the limitations of existing structures, reminding us that how we design our processes is as important as what we build.
Re-storying Care with Wesleyan University Faculty and Staff
Through guided visualizations, journaling spaces, and collective story sharing, we explored what narratives of care we want to remember, unlearn, create, and reimagine, particularly as we grapple with a context of rising state-sanctioned violence. This session affirms interdependence and highlights storytelling as a powerful tool for sustaining justice work and community well-being.
UNLEARNING
We are not interested in “getting things right.” We are interested in questioning, re-imagining, re-wiring, re-storying, re-creating, and re-worlding to cultivate more pluriversal practices/ways of being. Unlearning gives us a space to take off our masks as we recognize that none of us are perfect, nor should we be, and none of us know it all.
Our methodologies create powerful spaces to play and experiment while being free to make mistakes along the way. There is much to learn, and much that we have learned needs to be questioned.
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Unlearning mobilizes us to be vulnerable with each other and foster a community grounded in authenticity, accountability, and justice. Weaving and wrestling in community is not easy, but it is worthwhile.
“Team – it was such a pleasure to be with you all during this training. Your presence and energy helped me begin to move through my compassion fatigue and reconnect with a more generative space. I’m deeply grateful for that. I've already led a few of the new dinámicas I learned!”
Beth Poteet, Participant of the Sacred Facilitation Training