Interactive workshops are designed specific to request and connect people across social and community issues of importance. Innately, this process addresses our relationships to ourselves and our communities. This work is a part of movement building, revealing authenticity and generating sustainable change. It is non-authoritarian and centers participatory action.
I am moved to facilitate because I believe we are all born inherently powerful beings with possibilities to discover ourselves time and time again. I trust our collective whole is a tool for sustainable transformation and healing. My facilitation style is motivated by the antithesis of the containment, powerlessness and oppression I experience as a neurodiverse, queer human. This has guided me to devise my own facilitation path of ethics, metamorphosis and a discovery that, as adrienne maree brown describes, is “holding change.”
My facilitation process was formed in practice: learning from Theatre of The Oppressed Jokers in Boston, NYC and Senegal, youth at Sociedad Latina in Boston, Outward Bound schools in Boston and Baltimore, earning a certificate in Trauma Informed Care and independent research such as bell hook’s Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community, adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy series, A Pedagogy For Liberation and Pedagogy Of The Oppressed.
Photo by Vonne Napper
Notable Thoughts
“As a facilitator, my role is to continuously support people to be in connection with their dignity and their power in order to actualize their vision.”
— Inca A. Mohamed (Black Feminist Wisdom, “Holding Change”)
“I like to describe facilitation as supporting a body of people moving through a process… how can the work I am doing in this moment support the transformation of the world we live in?”
— Sage Crump (Black Feminist Wisdom, “Holding Change”)
“We believe we are all oppressed.”
— TOPLAB, NYC
“The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not ‘marginals,’ are not men living ‘outside’ society. They have always been ‘inside’ — inside the structure which made them ‘beings for others.’ The solution is not to ‘integrate’ them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become ‘beings for themselves.’”
— Paulo Freire