About this Event
About the event:
This workshop will be an experimental and interactive space for us to be creative in community with each other and share the stories living in our hearts and imaginations. The space is open to anyone interested and there is no need to have writing experience. Bring your hopes, fears, joys, and heaviness and we will write our way through the storyline of our own lives.
Come as you are and wear what is comfortable for you - we will have space to move our bodies, ground in meditation practice, hear from excerpts of a variety of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & Other People of Color) writers inspiring us to share our own stories - real or imaginary - in the space. You can bring a journal with you if you like, but we will also have writing supplies on site.
In these times in the world, in our communities, and in our own lives we can feel overwhelmed and overburdened by all that is going on and unable to slow the pace of life to just breathe and sit with what is brewing inside of us. This workshop is a space to slow down, be in community with each other, have fun, find joy, share and release a little of the heaviness of our own load we carry. Come with a playful spirit and you can bring a favorite book or story if you like to share about in the space!
About Teresa Mateus:
Teresa is a Clinical Social Worker with a specailization in trauma and BIPOC/QTBIPOC healing and is the author of three books on trauma, healing and resilience. She is currently working on her first novel - a decolonized Indiana Jones centering a Latinx protagonist seeking to restore ancient wisdom and magic, and protect it from evil forces seeking to steal this ancestral power, set in the Peruvian Andes.
Throughout her professional journey - as a therapist, Indigenous Medicine healer, and author she has engaged the intersection of the arts and healing, believing that the act of creation is a natural gateway to healing and expressing our stories.
Her work consistently engages spirituality, activism and healing with a focus on BIPOC communities and engaging with her own ancestral lineage from the Colombian Andes where she was born. Teresa is currently the program co-coordinator for the Ayni Healing Collective at Kota Alliance and speaks, teaches and offers programming locally and across the country grounded in trauma studies, healing justice and social change.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kota Alliance, 43 Saint Nicholas Place, New York, United States
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