Community Engagement
Our work is deeply rooted in creativity, embodiment, and collaboration with the goal of empowering individuals and communities to discover their innate power to create a liberatory world. Explore our current suite of offerings below!
Our community engagement services are designed to support the liberation and transformation of Black, Brown, and QTLGTSI+ communities. We partner with all communities aligned with this vision. We firmly believe that community engagement is synonymous with community healing when practiced creatively and rooted in the body—this belief shapes our approach. We’ll journey alongside the collective, deepening relationships, engaging in generative conflict, and rediscovering our need for interconnection.
We offer set yet adaptable curriculum as well as collaborate with groups to develop programming aligned with specific needs.
Process
Commit
Find alignment with the community’s vision of transformation & the willingness to journey collectively
Connect
Deepen relationships & rediscover our essential need for interconnection
Create
Activate the collective’s creative power to imagine, embody, & create liberatory futures
Approach
Our Community Engagement is a practice of creative social justice, cultivating collective presence, insight, and action. We utilize an integrated approach rooted in embodiment, understanding of racial trauma, and relational dynamics. We believe that community engagement is synonymous with community healing when practiced creatively and rooted in the body.
This process is designed to support personal and social transformation by collaborating to clarify vision, strengthen community, and navigate the path toward transformative change.
Racial Trauma
The important work of Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy informs our approach. It is grounded in understanding racial trauma as the lived reality of racial stress that is a daily experience for people of color, including Black, Brown, and QTLGTSI+ people. We recognize how living in this oppressive context, often made invisible by societal denial, shapes experiences and necessitates constant navigation and adjustment. This lens informs our Visioning practice as we support the journey towards imagining, embodying, and creating new, equitable, and liberating ways of being that contribute to transformative change and liberation.
Relational Dynamics
We recognize that growth and well-being are deeply relational. We explore the dynamics of relationships and the profound impact of connection on our lives, as we support the journey towards building authentic, empowering connections that strengthen community and foster transformative change. This lens is vital for Black, Brown, and QTLGTSI+ people navigating the complexities of relationships within their social and cultural contexts—including racial trauma.
Embodiment
Our integrated approach incorporates a deep understanding of embodiment. Embodiment describes how what we currently practice—our thoughts, patterns, and habits—shapes how we move through the world. Recognizing that trauma also shapes what we embody, we use this lens to support increasing awareness, healing, and anchoring our growth in the wisdom of the body to cultivate new ways of being that move us towards liberation.
Our community engagement services are a powerful collaboration for those eager to create meaningful change. To help you determine if this is the right fit for you at this time, we invite you to review our current and future programs.
Community Engagement Right for You?
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In a world where systemic oppression often colonizes our imaginative capacities, ReFashion Our Future emerges as a sacred playground for collective liberation. This project is not merely a trashion show; it is a somatic intervention designed to unlearn the habits of disposal—both of materials and of ourselves. By centering the voices of communities on the margins, we work to transform the weight of systemic trauma into the buoyancy of creative expression. We recognize that the climate crisis is a mirror of our internal landscapes—fractured, overwhelmed, and in need of deep, contemplative repair. Through shared acts of making and transforming, participants build deep empathy, not only for one another but for the environment that sustains us.
This experience culminates with the community having:
Created unique trashion garments
Explored new ways of creative expression
Strengthened community relationships
Deeper sense of connection to the environment
Increased motivation for collective action
Note: If you are interested and finances are a barrier, please contact us to discuss further.
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COMING SOON!
Ancestral Threadwork: Exploring Fashion and Textiles as a Pedagogy for Black Liberation engages Black youth in exploring ancestral wisdom through fashion and textiles. Reclaiming adornment as radical self-expression and resistance, participants stitch ancestral memory into the fabric of now, transforming garments into living archives and envisioning vibrant, self-determined Black futures rooted in heritage, creativity, and collective liberation.
This experience culminates with the community having:
Created a design inspired by their vision for the future
Gained mindfulness and somatic practices to support self-determination
Explored ancestral connections through fashion
Strengthened community relationships and built connections
Developed creative interdisciplinary skills
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COMING SOON!
Towards an Embodied Praxis is a transformative course dedicated to envisioning freedom and creating justice. It is designed for individuals and communities committed to realizing a world where new ways of being that are equitable and liberating are possible. While the ultimate mission of this work is the liberation and transformation of Black, Brown, and QTLGTSI+ people, this offering is open to all who seek to contribute to this vision and realize collective liberation.
This experience culminates with the community having:
Deepened their connection to the body as a powerful creative source
An understanding of the relationship between disembodiment and systemic oppression
Strengthened community through exploring patterns of relating and engaging vulnerability in conflict
The ability to imagine, embody, and create new ways of being
If these programs resonate and you feel called to explore them within a supportive, liberatory framework, our community engagement services may be a good fit for you. Not sure? Or have a specific community need? Contact us to discuss what may be possible!