Workshops & Creative Offerings
At Liberation Arts Collective, we design workshops with the needs of participants in mind — creating spaces to reflect, play, and grow together.
We offer opportunities to co-create and collaborate with you and your community. We have over two decades of experience creating storytelling and theatre arts workshops at schools 2nd-12th, colleges, prisons, and community-based organizations.
Blending guided meditation, yoga, writing, applied theater and skilled facilitation, we craft tailored experiences that help communities reconnect with creativity, and can design a workshop tailored to your specific needs, goals, and community.
Our approach is holistic, invitational, and mindful. Our gatherings invite participants to slow down, explore, and imagine new possibilities through art, story, and shared practice.
We are dedicated to igniting curiosity, joy, and support. Below are some of our Offerings.
Stories as Medicine: Using Storytelling for Connection and Community Building
This workshop weaves personal narrative and collaborative creation into a shared act that promotes healing. Participants explore personal or imagined narratives as tools for transformation. Using guided prompts and performance techniques, they uncover and share stories that foster empathy, resilience, shared values and strengths.
Core tools: storytelling, writing, partner feedback, group dialogue, reflection, and celebration.
Embodied Liberation: Using Theater as a Tool for Change
Rooted in Theater of the Oppressed and creative mindfulness practices, this workshop invites participants to use the body as a site of truth, protest, and possibility. Through improvisation, image theater, and guided creative exercises, participants explore liberation as a lived, felt experience — transforming awareness into collective action and joy.
Core tools: movement, improvisation, guided reflection, devised performance, dialogue-based processing.
The Art of Listening: Communication and Presence
An interactive workshop designed for educators, artists, and community leaders, this workshop builds skills in deep listening, feedback, and authentic communication through theater and interpersonal exercises. Core tools: role play, interpersonal communication, storytelling, and feedback models.
Art as Conversation: Echoes & Impressions
Participants attend a live artistic event — a performance or exhibit — then gather for a guided conversation that explores what moved, challenged, or inspired them. Through facilitated discussion and hands-on creative practice, they create personal responses that transform observation into expression. This workshop celebrates art as both experience and catalyst to connection and meaning. Core tools: guided discussion, grounding techniques, creative reflection & response
🌑 New Moon Series: Freedom Practices for Creative Renewal
“Meditate. Play. Learn. Create.”
Each New Moon marks a time for setting intentions — to pause, breathe, and realign with what we hope to manifest. In this monthly gathering, participants reconnect with creativity as a radical act of freedom and restoration. Through guided meditation, movement, writing, sound, and imagery, we explore joy, rest, and imagination as revolutionary practices that nurture both the individual and the collective.
This workshop invites artists, educators, and community organizers to gather in play and reflection — to learn from one another, set intentions for the month ahead, and create together in a spirit of liberation and love.
Core tools: mindfulness, journaling, creative play, group sharing, collective art-making.
This workshop weaves together trauma-informed Vinyasa/ Hatha yoga, mindful breath control (pranayama), and guided meditation with creative writing exercises designed to deepen reflection and release. Participants are invited to move, breathe, and write their way toward greater self-awareness, grounding, and expression.
YOGA: For Every Body
“Arlene and Eric created a supportive and grounding place for us to connect. The activities were so fun and I remembered a joyful moment from my past I haven’t thought of in years after answering one of their prompts. I loved being able to explore through the writing. I thought I didn’t have anything to share, but they really helped me find my voice! I left the workshop feeling light on my feet and full in my heart!”
“What you did wasn’t just theater. It was an act of resistance, of conscious art, of emotional and political education. You gave us a space to see ourselves reflected, to breathe, to feel that we are not alone and that, amidst so much hostility, there are still spaces where we are heard, understood, and embraced.”