practicing freedom lab
Our public offerings are grounded in Popular Education, Theatre of the Oppressed, conflict transformation, embodiment practices, participatory process and collective care.
"We must dare to invent the future." - Paulo Freire
As pressure builds on our communities and survival, we offer a space to deepen our collective capacity to move through conflict with love and courage. A two-part workshop on somatic practice and conflict transformation.
Expand your approach to inquiry, research, assessments and planning with methods that spark connection and create the conditions for authentic sharing. This in-person workshop will include the Coliberate curriculum and tools for using Image Theatre for collective problem identification and research design and Forum Theatre for collecting data.
The current administration is expecting our public outrage to build, and may be stoking it to justify an escalation of repression... So what “out of the box” tactics and creative strategies that no one can predict or manipulate can we devise together?
Rainbow of Desire provides a framework for deepening understanding of the difficult ways we move in the world, with an emphasis on internalized messages of oppression, the internal narratives and tensions we carry. Be ready to dive into the language of image, physicality, and movement.
El Teatro del oprimido utiliza prácticas de encarnación física, de solución creativa de problemas y de la actuación como forma de experiencia ensayística revolucionaria. Este método de teatro posee técnicas que buscan humanizar a las personas utilizando el conocimiento que cada una de ellas posee en el cuerpo y crea espacios para que los participantes ensayen el tomar acción para lograr un cambio positivo.
Come play, put the critic away! Find what you already know about moving through conflict through embodied, physical exercises.
Consider personal and collective obligations in caring for child welfare. We will address incidental harms from involving the state.
How can we challenge policing systems within nonprofits and build organizational cultures that support true accountability?
What are viable alternatives to the harmful consequences of relying on the mechanisms of family law to keep survivors safe?
This workshop challenges the foundation of our criminal-legal system while also inviting deeper critique of its alternatives.
Through grounding somatic practices and group exercises drawn from Rainbow of Desire, a methodology from Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, we’ll express what’s often unspoken and reconnect to the intelligence of our bodies.
Flipping the scripts of social dominance through choreographing violence, celebrating self-love and righteous resistance to injustice.
En este taller conocerás qué es la justicia restaurativa, para qué sirve y cómo puedes ser partícipe de ella.
Theater of the Oppressed workshop emphasizing Image Theater, mindfulness, breath and sensory wisdom of resisting systemic power and injustice.
This series uses theater, embodied physical practice, mindfulness, creativity, self-reflection, and problem solving to disrupt, transform, and design strategies to challenge internalized, interpersonal, and systemic oppression.