Workshops
For more information please send an inquiry to booking.alysiaharris@gmail.com
The Figure 8:
How to Be Healthy
Women in Activism
- How to diagnose the best role for you in social movements
- Strategies to avoid burn out
- Finding and separating your allies from your advocates
- Historicizing women in activism
- Familiarizing attendees with women under 40 currently involved in activism
Racial Reconciliation:
How to Cultivate Healthy Multi-Ethnic Communities
- Empathy practicum with focus on application in dialogues about race
- Reading and discussion of modern and contemporary poets' approach to race
- Diagnosing where you are on the spectrum of reconciliation
- Debunking arguments
- Brainstorm session for solutions
Empathy Practicum:
Dignifying and Privileging Others
- Exercise 1: Removing The Scales
- Exercise 2: Calling Us By Our Real Names
- Exercise 3: Contextualizing The Other
- Exercise 4: Decentralizing The Self
- Exercise 5: The Reveal
Writing Workshop I:
Techniques in Generation
- Helping attendees create new work via writing exercises
- Introducing solutions for writers block
- Collaboration session
Writing Workshop II: Techniques in Editing
- M.F.A style critique of attendee's previous work
- Introduction to and practice with editing exercises
- Collaboration session