MENSEN. FACILITATES, TEACHES AND CREATES CURRICULUM.
mensen.’s approach is trauma-informed, healing-centered, strengths-based, intergenerational and amplifies the expertise of directly-impacted communities.
Former workshops + curriculum topics include:
visual arts + narrative
(drawing, painting, muralism, design, illustration, digital art, collage, printmaking, sculpture, photography)
creative writing + storytelling
(poetry, memoir, comics and short fiction)
memory-keeping
(oral history, self-documentation, community interviews and archives)
healing justice
(self-care, community care, intentional adornment, DIY healing tools + rituals, the arts as mindfulness)
collective liberation and creativity
(art builds, creative interventions)
systems and survival
(mass incarceration, college access, gender-based violence)
femme power
(femmoirs, survivor circles)