Living Through Seasons: Creative Practices for Embodied Activism

A four-month guided program in writing, movement, and voice practices.

Thematic Units Include

Writing: Writing About Self

Voice: Vocalizing Embodied Knowledge

Movement: Morning Ritual

Performance: Performing Cultural Selfhood

Participants Will Gain

Transdisciplinary research skills

Expanded expressive capacity

Confidence in nonverbal communication

Tools for socially engaged, community-responsive practice

This program supports participants in developing steady creative and embodied practices that cultivate presence, emotional clarity, and a deeper sense of belonging. Through four thematic units, we explore how lived experience becomes creative material and how the body can be a site of memory, imagination, and relational intelligence.

The course draws from performance-based autoethnography, somatic practice, and transdisciplinary artistic research. This work supports conflict transformation, mediation design, and digital peacebuilding by rooting strategies in embodied, relational knowledge. It is designed for artists, activists, peacebuilders, educators, facilitators, and anyone seeking a creative outlet or a structured return to themselves.

Program Structure: January 27 – May 26, 2026 (16 sessions total, with a two-week break from March 24 and March 31; sessions resume April 7)

This course is the first part of a two-part yearly program, followed by an advanced series in the second half of the year.

Entry is rolling: participants can join at any time without needing to “catch up,” because each session functions as an independent module. Every module follows a consistent structure (arrival, prompt/score, guided practice, reflection, and options for integration), so you can enter the work through whichever theme is most relevant right now. Over time, repeating and remixing the modules builds capacity and continuity.

All sessions offered online via Microsoft Teams. After each class, only an edited recording of Zoya’s facilitation is made available. Participant voices, images, and contributions are neither visible nor identifiable in these recordings. Times listed are suggested for reference only.

Access: supported field-testing places (fee-waived)

If cost is a barrier, supported field-testing places where the course fee can be waived. In exchange, participants are asked to:

  • provide a short written testimonial or a brief video testimonial,

  • complete a small applied project using the course tools and share what they make with 5 to 10 people in their community (friends, family, or a professional circle), and

  • receive guidance in shaping the project and its documentation, so the process is clear, doable, and aligned with their context.

Cost and Access

Sliding scale based on regional context

Europe / North America:

(€480–€720 total)

Middle-income regions:

(€240–€320 total)


Equity Supporters:

(€800–€1,000 total)


Participants across the MENA / SWANA region and adjacent diasporas:

Free access through an anonymous, protected enrollment pathway.

A portion of every tuition supports participants in regions with restricted educational access. Names and identities of those groups remain confidential.


To watch videos demonstrating process and outcomes view:

https://www.homesoilprojects.org/artistic-education-workshops