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 19 – May 19, 2026 (16 sessions total)

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

Participants are welcome to join any cohort. Three global cohorts offered weekly (choose one).

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.

Cohort A

Tuesdays 11:00–12:30 CET

15:30–17:00 India / Sri Lanka / Pakistan

15:45–17:15 Nepal

18:00–19:30 Singapore / Malaysia / China / Philippines

19:00–20:30 Korea / Japan

21:00–22:30 Eastern Australia (Sydney / Melbourne)

23:00–00:30 Aotearoa New Zealand

Cohort B

Tuesdays 18:00–19:30 CET

9:00–10:30 Pacific; 10:00–11:30 Mountain;

11:00–12:30 Central; 12:00–13:30 Eastern;

13:00–14:30 Bogotá / Lima / Mexico City

12:00–13:30 Eastern US / Canada, Caribbean

19:00–20:30 East Mediterranean / Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Cyprus

20:00–21:30 Arabia / Turkey. Kuwait, Turkey, Iraq, Syria

20:30–22:00 Iran

21:00–22:30 Gulf

Cost and Access

Sliding scale based on regional context

Europe / North America:

€120–€180 per month

(€480–€720 total)

Middle-income regions:

€60–€80 per month

(€240–€320 total)

Cohort C

Tuesdays 20:00–21:30 CET

19:00–20:30 UK / Ireland

20:00–21:30 Central Europe

19:00–20:30 West Africa

20:00–21:30 Central / North Africa

21:00–22:30 Southern Africa

22:00–23:30 East Africa

Equity Supporters:

€200–€250 per month

(€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 enroll or inquire, Zoya with your preferred cohort and sliding-scale tier.

To watch videos demonstrating process and outcomes view:

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