On September 16th, Tuesday, The Office for Equity and Inclusion’s Success at Wes Dialogue Series will be hosting the “Embodying Collective and Self-Care: The Transformative Power of Storytelling Workshop with Chelsea Viteri of Mazorca Facilitation for Change” to launch this year’s Intercultural Workshops.

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Meaningful social change and intercultural understanding require more than intellectual debate. They demand tools that can hold complexity, foster connection, and invite us to listen deeply. Storytelling—one of humanity’s oldest tools for making sense of the world—allows us to challenge dominant narratives, affirm interdependence, and create space for multiple ways of knowing.

Mazorca Facilitation presents The Transformative Power of Storytelling, an online participatory workshop designed for Wesleyan faculty, staff, and scholars. Rooted in popular education, decolonial thought, and embodied learning, this offering uses storytelling to cultivate connection, deepen reflection, and imagine otherwise.

This participatory workshop invites staff, scholars, and faculty into a space of reflection and community building. Through embodied, creative practices and collective play adapted for Zoom, we will explore how care lives in our bodies, how we offer it to others, and how we receive it in return, taking into consideration the messy context in which we’re navigating.

Using storytelling as a central tool, participants will reflect on how self and collective care practices dialogue with each other. Together, we will share stories of care, those we have offered and those we have needed, as a way to affirm interdependence and the wisdom in the room. Through guided reflection, gentle movement, and collaborative online exercises, we will co-create a nourishing space that sustains presence, connection, and creativity in justice work.

The event will take place from 9.30-11:00 a.m. on September 16th, on Zoom. Click here to register.