​THE BODY DOES NOT LIE

The Creative Justice intensive prioritizes embodied learning, through equitable applications of Theatre of the Oppressed-based, embodied collaboration methods – as participants are guided through the foundations of anti-oppressive practice. 

Embodied learning...

1. Centers the experiential (earned) knowledge and capabilities of people who experience oppression and equalizes power imbalances in social justice networks;
2. Complements intellectual knowledge with emotional wisdom;
3. Is a highly participative, multi-versal approach that embraces and accommodates multiple differences; and
4. Uses accessible communication and equitable engagement methods. 

Within Theatre of the Oppressed collaboration methods:

1. All participate in and contribute equally to the production of knowledge and continuous dialogue;
2. The learners are the subject and not the object of the process; and
3. The goal is to liberate participants from the internal and external oppressions that hinder our ability to act. 

Anti-oppressive practice:

1. Attends to inequities that exist in personal, social and systemic spheres of society;
2. Does not negate cultural contexts, historical impact and intergenerational/ inherited traumas; and
3. Motivates agents of change to rely on non-dominant groups of people in social justice work. 

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