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Plant medicine safety, community & storytelling
This project responds to a personal calling out of my experience as a plant medicine practitioner, an Applied Theatre facilitator, and a human being wanting to feel home, safe and supported in a truly conscious, global plant medicine community.
In these workshops I offer a space to grow and reflect together on what concerns us. The goal is to tap into the dimensions of safety, care and responsibility in plant medicine experiences, through artistic and storytelling strategies, with focus on a specific topic.
This can take shape of:
- a punctual workshop;
- a series of interconnected encounters;
- a private journey of several stages, in a closed container, for an established group or community to address a specific topic of concern.
REACH OUT If you would like me to bring OUAC to your space or community. Let's jump on a videocall: you tell me your needs and vision and I'll tell you how I can help, plus extra details.
READ ON if you wanna keep learning about Applied Theatre.
(Pss... You don't need any previous artistic experience...)
Learn & connect with people's stories and collective knowledge.
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Help the community
improve its safety and awareness as you do.
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Experience art and storytelling as a tool for community development.
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What is Applied Theatre?
Applied Theatre (AT) is an umbrella term referring to theatre practices in service of community, healing and educational goals. Here drama and storytelling become vehicles and methodologies for a group of people to learn and reflect together about the complexities and possibilities of a common subject of interest, in this case: safety, care and responsibility in plant medicine experiences.
AT is an artistic pedagogy, meaning that there is a conscious educational intention and design guiding the work.
In other words: games and resources aren't just loosely chosen to put a playful, creative workshop together. Facilitating AT projects implies carefully curating a series of interrelated activities which build upon each other, offering support and guidance to the group's organic expression and direction.
It also involves that facilitators remain in a state of continuous active listening, making necessary adjustments on the spot and in between sessions, for the whole journey to feel as natural and relevant as possible.
It's ultimately the collective and individual material emerging in flow with the workshop - rich bubbles of information - what moves the process along, as the group co-creates its own journey.
WHAT's the dream?
mission
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To open up a conversation around plant medicine safety, care and responsibility, with the expressive power of art & storytelling as a medium.
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To offer a compassionate space where certain topics can be explored in a respectful, curious and creative manner.
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To encourage and help communities inform themselves, as an act of conscious care for what is considered home and sacred.
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To claim back storytelling as a core community building and healing practice.
vision
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To expand as a project, collaborating with artists, healers, educators, changemakers, and plant medicine carriers and communities around the world.
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To develop a democratic, arts-based methodology in service of plant medicine communities looking to improve safety and care for themselves and their participants.
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To contribute to global plant medicine research with human stories and artistic expression as a valid source of information.
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To produce a body of artwork out of first-hand-experiences, which can serve as an educational tool about plant medicine, from the people to the people.
