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In what ways have our knowledge and rituals about death shifted or evolved within ourselves, our comunidad, and the larger Latine Diaspora? So often, humans have a way of outsourcing death to exploitative systems, avoiding the topic of death altogether, and running away from grief.
About The Theme
This season Reclamando Weavers (workshop participants) will unpack stories of death on a personal, communal, and cultural level. Without a way to process and alchemize our grief, we won’t be able to communicate, advocate, fight for, heal through, or create life. There is a precious and powerful energy in the stories we pass on about life and death throughout generations. To reclaim the sacredness of death, we will reflect on the places and the people that shape the ways we have been introduced to dying.
Our intention is to build our language fluency around loss, increase our resilience, and engage in community care through shared stories.
Workshop dates: January 17, February 7, March 7, March 28, April 18, April 25
About Reclamando
Reclamando our Narrative: Healing and Change through the Power of Words
Join Mi Gente for a free workshop series where the Latine community can claim their stories, promote healing and belonging, and mobilize participation in racial equity, unity, and advocacy.
The spellwork of storytelling lives at the center of the Reclamando workshop. It is our belief that magia is cast when we dig for the stories hidden, inherited, and being birthed in our bodies and shared realities.
Since the origin of our Reclamando series, participants aka Weavers have explored stories living in our bones, our distant memories, and everywhere in between.
Our work is rooted in curious questioning, in (re)learning, and in alchemizing through self-expression. In other words, we dive into many forms of storytelling so we can reclaim our daily stories and the stories we have yet to write or (re)tell.
What to expect from the workshop:
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space to reflect and tools to express
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inspiration from other writers, artists, healers, teachers, thinkers
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laid back humans and storytellers of all kinds and levels
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diverse experiences, backgrounds, beliefs
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warm, open, and raw reflections
P.S. Importante:
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You don't have to be "a writer".
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You don't have to be "fully healed".
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This is an opportunity for comunidad to connect through our shared stories