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"The masters tools will never dismantle the master's house." - Audre Lorde
Together let's create the tools that WILL dismantle it!
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MISSION
Support care-centered changemakers to prepare for crisis and build the tools they need to create just and sustainable futures - through accessible, intersectional, creative, and trauma-informed education and coaching.
VISION
A just and sustainable future where care guides our relationships with all beings - human and more-than-human - so that everyone and everything can thrive.
My Approach:
(Un)Learning for Just & Sustainable Futures
*(un)learning means questioning what you’ve been taught, staying open to new insights, and choosing to live differently because of what you now know.
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I cultivate (un)learning experiences that are:
Accessible
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I honor different learning styles and abilities by using plain language, visuals, intentional pauses, and multiple ways to engage.
Intersectional
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I invite participants to explore how their identities, relationships, and responsibilities to land and community shape their understanding.
Trauma Informed
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I center the nervous system and make room for how change affects our bodies, environments, and emotions.
Collective
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I design for collaboration and low-risk interdependence, practicing what it means to move together.
All of my work lives at the intersection of education, creativity, and care.
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My Methodology:
Creative Liberation Practices
Creative Liberation Practices is the foundational framework that guides all my offerings - workshops, coaching, speaking, and community experiences. I developed it over years of facilitation after finishing my Master of Education in Arts for Social Change.
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It is an arts-based, trauma-informed, intersectional pedagogy rooted in the belief that creativity and care are essential tools for social transformation.
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Through this approach, participants:
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Engage in (un)learning that challenges the norms of capitalism and supremacy embedded in our habits and systems
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Use creativity to reflect on complex issues with imagination, play, and emotional depth
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Build a culture of care that values communication, consent, connection, and collective thriving
Creativity must be anchored in care so we don’t simply recreate the systems that harm us - just with new faces at the top.
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The Praxis (aka the theory in practice):
Inclusive Community Preparedness
When Creative Liberation Practices are applied to climate justice, crisis response, and social care, they become the foundation of my Inclusive Community Preparedness framework.
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This work helps communities prepare for crisis without reproducing harm - by centering relationships, resilience, and imagination.
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At the heart of this framework are the Three Pillars of Inclusive Community Preparedness:
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Creativity as Resistance
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We interrupt colonial urgency and perfectionism by making space for imagination, experimentation, and play. Creativity builds emotional resilience and helps us respond to complexity with curiosity instead of control.
Connection as Preparedness
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Colonialism taught us to disconnect - from land, from self, from each other - resulting in othering, harm, and a culture that seeks to control and capitalize. Preparing is caring and it begins with restoring these relationships. It means practicing interdependence and building community before crisis hits.
Compassion as Catalyst
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Shame, guilt, and grief can keep us stuck in the systems we’re trying to abolish. Compassion - for ourselves, our histories, and each other - gives us the courage to transform. It’s how we build the capacity to grow, together.
These pillars are not theoretical. They show up in my facilitation, my coaching, and the practical tools I create with communities.
My Manifesto:
Towards Liberatory Futures
I often use the phrase “just and sustainable futures” to describe what I mean by Liberatory Futures - futures where care is the foundation, not the afterthought.
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We are living through overlapping crises - ecological, social, and spiritual. The climate is shifting. Institutions are unraveling. The myths of supremacy and individualism are collapsing. Some of us have waited for this moment. Some are grieving. Some are still pretending it’s not happening.
We can’t unsee the violence that shaped the world - or our entanglement in it. The systems that taught us to overwork, hoard, and disconnect won’t carry us forward.
So we look to the land and those who stewarded it for generations.
We begin with imagination.
With art.
With circles of trust.
With practices that keep us accountable to the world we want to live in.
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Preparedness isn’t just about kits and plans.
It’s about rehearsing the future - practicing collective care, relational leadership, and courageous creativity.
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I believe preparedness can be rooted in deepening kinship, not fear.
I believe care is infrastructure, not a buzzword.
I believe the land is our elder, the body our compass, and creativity our medicine.
I believe liberation must be intentionally centered on care - or we risk rebuilding what we meant to dismantle.
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Across time and place, people have fought to create care-filled futures.
Now it’s our turn - to prepare with intention, and co-create a world where all our kin (from the rocks, to the rivers, to future generations) can thrive.
What this looks like:
Offerings + Community Events
Wondering how all of this becomes real? Below are glimpses of what happens when creativity, compassion, and connection meet community.
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OFFERINGS
Workshops
Example: “Beyond the 72-Hour Kit” Workshop
Audience: Frontline nonprofit staff & community members
Focus: Emergency preparedness through equity and imagination
Outcome: Participants left feeling excited - not overwhelmed - about preparedness. Many took action by connecting with neighbors, mapping resources, and reimagining care during crisis.
Speaking
Example: “Land-Based Kinship” Talk at Pacific Oaks College
Audience: Social work students
Focus: Art as a tool for social justice and rethinking helping relationships through land-based kinship
Outcome: Participants discovered new, non-institutional pathways to care rooted in creativity, Indigenous leadership, and collective connection.
Coaching
Example: “Coaching for Changemakers” Program
Audience: Nonprofit and community leaders experiencing burnout
Focus: Somatics, land-based reflection, expressive arts, and leadership through imagination
Outcome: Participants reconnected with their values, set sustainable boundaries, and integrate care-based leadership practices - without guilt or shame.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
Example: Creative Community Care Club (East Van)
Audience: Hyperlocal neighbors and grassroots organizers
Focus: Building resilience, imagination, and solidarity in the face of climate collapse and political repression
Outcome: Participants co-created solutions through storytelling, skill-sharing, and arts-based collective care - deepening trust and connection at the neighborhood level.​
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