Custom-built workshops for families, community groups, institutions, and schools.

Past workshops have explored:

• People’s history of a place

• Postcolonial ecologies

• Queer existence and resistance

• Cosmology of time/place/space, including deathwork and ritual

• Plant identification & introductios

• Deep city bird listening & critter tracking

• Food as medicine

• Trauma-informed somatics to facilitate healing relationships to land and place

Workshops are interactive and draw heavily from popular education, seeking to connect participants with territory and ancestry. Workshops can take place either online or in-person.

For pricing an availability, please shoot me an email.

Where am I and how did I get here?

Contextual genealogy is a storytelling practice that I use to help you see yourself and your people in full context. Using any available data that you can provide about time/place/space/social class, we will illuminate the everyday realities of your ancestors.

Together we will sketch out their surroundings - how they braided their hair, the daily journey they took to clean water, what they ate on a typical Monday morning, where they slept at night (and who with…). We will ask what they foresaw as the end or continuation of the postcolonial apocalypse that they, like us, somehow managed to survive.

Using a combination of traditional genealogy research tools and storytelling practice, this work builds personal and intentional relationships with our ancestors and the places we come from.

This work is sealed with a ceremony that ties us to our origins, our practice, and the territory we stand on.

What happened here? Who was here before you?

Whether you are seeking to build a reciprocal relationship to a new space you are living in, growing on, or stewarding for plants or future generations, this work seeks to elevate the stories that lay buried under the foundations of our everyday lives.

This work draws from a variety of sources including archives, historic maps, postcolonial ecologies, and targeted site visits. Special attention will be made to elevate the stories of Black, Indigenous, queer, migrant, and working class lives - interweaving them with the realities and mythologies of “history” as told by predominant white supremacist narratives.

Who is missing? How can I contact them?

A one-on-one consult to uncover plant medicines, elements, and somatic practices that can help support with processing and healing in times of transition and loss.

— in-person only —

Where have we been? Where are we going?

A systemic ritual to gain insight into the events that stretch out infinitely behind us and in front of us.

— in-person only —