Our youth-led community offerings combine political education, critical dialogue and liberation art as tools to address the impacts of, heal from and transform systemic violence. All variations center critical consciousness and community building as integral to personal transformation and social change efforts. Recommended duration of our offerings are 1.5 hrs minimum but can be tailored to suit the needs of our partners.
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Healing ARTS (Addressing Real Traumas and Solutions) Circulos |
Community Building Circulos |
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ARTS Circulos combine talking circles with liberatory art exercises. With a talking circle, we facilitate a safe and open space for sharing our struggles and critiquing systems of violence. Afterwards, we engage in art that explores possibilities for transformative healing and social justice. Circulos result in a community based art project and can be used as a focus group which produces data that informs BAY-Peace’s community organizing efforts.
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Community Building Circulos use interactive exercises and critical dialogue as tools for building stronger solidarity and understanding among participants. Using modalities such as Theater of the Oppressed, Spoken Word and Movement, participants practice acting, speaking and moving in ways that contribute positively to the collective.
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Health & Wellness Workshops
Homemade Hygiene exposes how many store-bought hygiene items contain chemicals that can be harmful to our health. Together, participants will learn recipe’s for healthier homemade alternatives like deodorants, aromatherapy and skin scrub cleansers.
Boundaries and Relationships explores the importance of honoring boundaries in relation to others. Using Theater of the Oppressed, we will learn to uphold these during everyday struggles we face in relation to others.
Discipline and Personal Growth explores the importance of honoring boundaries for our own health and benefit. It is centered around personal experiences, well-being and growth.
10 Dimensions of Wellness focuses on how we can optimize our health by cultivating our well-being in the 8 dimensions outlined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Inner Child is a trauma-informed session that helps participants connect their traumas to the triggers they experience. Participants learn to use the “inner-child” as a framework for honoring and caring for self.
Nonviolent Communication & De-escalation equip participants to learn skills to prevent or de-escalate a crisis, safely respond to crisis behavior and to assess when safety interventions are necessary.
Boundaries and Relationships explores the importance of honoring boundaries in relation to others. Using Theater of the Oppressed, we will learn to uphold these during everyday struggles we face in relation to others.
Discipline and Personal Growth explores the importance of honoring boundaries for our own health and benefit. It is centered around personal experiences, well-being and growth.
10 Dimensions of Wellness focuses on how we can optimize our health by cultivating our well-being in the 8 dimensions outlined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Inner Child is a trauma-informed session that helps participants connect their traumas to the triggers they experience. Participants learn to use the “inner-child” as a framework for honoring and caring for self.
Nonviolent Communication & De-escalation equip participants to learn skills to prevent or de-escalate a crisis, safely respond to crisis behavior and to assess when safety interventions are necessary.
Socio-Political Education workshops
Intro to Drop the MIC(Military Industrial Complex) exposes harsh truths about systemic violence/Militarization and the ways that it manifests within structures, institutions and government agencies that disproportionately impact low-income youth of color.
Truth in Recruitment gives an in-depth look at the pros and cons of recruitment and exposes to what measures the government will go to sustain their power in the US and abroad.
Police Brutality exposes the history and practices of the US Department of Defense, Homeland Security and local police departments to contextualize police brutality as a historical and systemic issue.
Patriarchy & Reproductive Justice explores how we can use love to combat customs that perpetuate patriarchy and toxic masculinity through the relationships we build at home and in community with our families, partners or children. Grounded in a reproductive justice framework, The activities integrate critical dialogue, political education and Liberation Arts.
School to Prison Pipeline exposes the hyper-criminalization of low-income youth of color within the education system, exploring the impacts of punitive practices and policing.
Islamophobia & Xenophobia Workshop focuses on and educates the audience about the societal struggle of Muslim peoples and Arabs, as well as connecting this struggle to the idea of othering individuals different from us.
Militarization of the Border draws the connections between the increased spread of Islamophobia and the US Government’s rise of War on Terror as well as heightened restrictions on Immigrations Customs Enforcement in recent years.
Imperialism Understand how imperialism/colonialism show up in history and how it has continued to show up in our world today and how these actions affect everyone
Truth in Recruitment gives an in-depth look at the pros and cons of recruitment and exposes to what measures the government will go to sustain their power in the US and abroad.
Police Brutality exposes the history and practices of the US Department of Defense, Homeland Security and local police departments to contextualize police brutality as a historical and systemic issue.
Patriarchy & Reproductive Justice explores how we can use love to combat customs that perpetuate patriarchy and toxic masculinity through the relationships we build at home and in community with our families, partners or children. Grounded in a reproductive justice framework, The activities integrate critical dialogue, political education and Liberation Arts.
School to Prison Pipeline exposes the hyper-criminalization of low-income youth of color within the education system, exploring the impacts of punitive practices and policing.
Islamophobia & Xenophobia Workshop focuses on and educates the audience about the societal struggle of Muslim peoples and Arabs, as well as connecting this struggle to the idea of othering individuals different from us.
Militarization of the Border draws the connections between the increased spread of Islamophobia and the US Government’s rise of War on Terror as well as heightened restrictions on Immigrations Customs Enforcement in recent years.
Imperialism Understand how imperialism/colonialism show up in history and how it has continued to show up in our world today and how these actions affect everyone
