Workshop Format and Approach
This series integrates autoethnography and practice-as-research through performance, choreography, and theatre-based methods. Participants engage in writing, movement, and vocal practices to articulate and analyze cultural experience as personal, collective, and evolving.
Grounded in embodied inquiry and relational ethics, the workshops offer accessible pathways into performance research—equally suited for artists, educators, and those seeking to live more creatively in their daily lives.
Originally designed for BA, MA, and doctoral students in peace and conflict studies, performance, artistic research, critical theory, design, and education, the sessions can also be adapted for organizations, collectives, and individuals with no formal performance training.
Workshop Units
(Each unit can be facilitated as a stand-alone session or as part of a full course.)
Artistic Education Workshops
Autoethnography: Composing Experience Through Performance
Writing About Self
Explore the materiality of language and the gesture of naming as gateways to layered understandings of identity.
Morning Ritual
Attend to the transition from rest to wakefulness through somatic awareness, discovering how everyday gestures carry communicative and ethical meaning.
Vocalizing Embodied Knowledge
Investigate the relationship between voice, memory, and emotion. Learn to vocalize from embodied awareness—beyond binaries of rationality and feeling.
Performing Cultural Selfhood
Engage in solo and group performance-making to examine how identity is co-created across physical, social, and digital environments.
These units are both reflective and generative, offering frameworks for socially engaged, interdisciplinary, and ethical creative practices. Whether culminating in a performance, a collaborative curriculum, or a dialogic facilitation model, the workshops nurture embodied insight as a foundation for creative and social transformation.
Formats and Delivery
Delivery options include:
One- or two-day workshops
Week-long intensives
Full-semester courses
Sessions are available in-person or online and can be embedded into existing programs or offered independently. Outcomes may include performances, reflective essays, participatory projects, public dialogues, or digital/visual works.
Each workshop invites participants to critically reflect on power relations, cultural selfhood, and the performance of identity in response to social and institutional norms. Participants develop a practice-as-research portfolio, beginning with individual reflection and culminating in a collaborative or socially engaged work.
Download the Course Brochure (PDF)
Includes an overview of the methodology, detailed unit descriptions, learning outcomes, participant testimonials, and guidance on how to host or tailor this workshop for your institution or community.