Consulting: Embodied Approaches to Inclusive Dialogue 

Discover an embodied approach to inclusive leadership, communication, and collaboration across cultural and professional settings. Our consulting supports individuals and teams in transforming language and movement patterns that sustain exclusionary practices.

We offer customized one-to-one sessions and interactive workshops for artists, educators, peacebuilders, and organizations seeking relational, adaptive strategies for equity and care.

What We Offer 

Using performance-based methods and reflective writing, participants gain tools to:

  • Reshape language and movement to foster inclusion and belonging

  • Lead adaptive conversations in multicultural environments

  • Strengthen collaboration through embodied awareness

Consulting can support leadership transitions, cultural engagement strategies, or team development across sectors.

Why It Works

Our practice integrates theory and lived experience to cultivate:

  • Embodied insight – Learn through body-based reflection and action

  • Relational trust – Explore diverse perspectives with care and responsiveness

  • Adaptive ethics – Respond to shifting social predicaments with clarity and integrity

Get Started 

Interested in how this approach can benefit your work?  

Schedule a one-to-one consultation 

Book a tailored workshop for your team  

Contact us to to co-design a solution that fits your goals

Participants sitting on yoga mats in a workshop, writing on large pieces of paper, with colorful notes on the wall.

University of Innsbruck, MA Program for Peace & Conflict, (2023).

Formulations of Assembly, Workshop-as-Event, Mare Culturale Urbano (2018)

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University of Innsbruck, MA Program for Peace & Conflict, (2023).

The course inspired me to lead the DEI committee (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity) in my organization considering the importance of using inclusive language in the work environment. This methodology served as a foundation for activating social justice in the organization.”
— -Katerina, MA Peace Studies
By using autoethnography, we’ve been able to highlight the lived experiences of individuals within our creative and activist projects, ensuring that their voices are not just heard but deeply understood and reflected in our work. For example, we have started to use this during our artivism workshop where participants are encouraged to draw from their personal experiences to create art that reflects their journeys, struggles, and triumphs. These personal narratives are then woven into the broader context of social justice, activism, and advocacy.
— Pratik, Human Rights Lawyer
I am not an artist and my understanding of art is limited. Therefore, I was finding some challenges at the beginning when I started the course with Zoya. But Zoya understood without me having to explain and she was professional and patient to teach me and help me understand the course smoothly and simply. She also succeeded in including everyone in the discussions and interactions.
— Zozan, MA Peace & Conflict Studies
Zoya is very precise and clear in their communication introducing and guiding us in the embodied explorations, elaborating on the components of the course, as well as moderating conversation. Zoya is open and flexible in adapting to the needs of the participants, and asks and gives room for our needs and wishes to find a good way to guide us through the day according with our moment-to-moment, day-to-day experience. Zoya offers very diverse ways of engaging with autoethnography throughout the course using theater, improvisation, movement, writing, reading,...That makes the course very rich, dynamic, and embodied.
— Maryam, MA Artistic Research
For me, the course introduced a new approach to thinking about my work and daily routines. It provided a perspective that emphasized a more interconnected and collective understanding of the world. One method that particularly resonated with me was engaging with morning routines. Mapping, embodying, and repeating these routines enhanced my overall awareness. And that it is needed to think beyond the personal on a daily level.
— Vlad, MA Peace & Conflict Studies

A LEXICON OF PRACTICE

Autoethnography

Practice-As-Research

Socially Engaged Art

Nonviolence

Collective Action

Solidarity

Transindividuality

Performance

Non-Hierarchical

Relational Practice

Critique

Dialogue

Transdisciplinarity

Social Justice

Paradigm Shift

Performative Ethnography

Assemblies

Adaptive Ethics

Life Affirming

Autoethnography Practice-As-Research Socially Engaged Art Nonviolence Collective Action Solidarity Transindividuality Performance Non-Hierarchical Relational Practice Critique Dialogue Transdisciplinarity Social Justice Paradigm Shift Performative Ethnography Assemblies Adaptive Ethics Life Affirming