COLLECTIVE TAPESTRY
Where the arts, play, and transformation meet.
Communal Practices
We create playgrounds for exploration, weaving practices for social health, belonging, and a culture of care.
We act as a collective body - a community of practice.
We partner with groups and organizations to create tapestries of care built on hope through a trauma-informed and healing centered lens.
Collective Courage
Our world is in need of creative capacities and radical imaginative thinking in times like these - spaces that move our global community toward connection, healing, and repair that are centered on local and contextual knowledge and the lived experience of communities. It begins with us.
We must be mapmakers at a time when it feels like many things are shifting. Our world calls for unconventional methodologies and communal practices and strategies to sense our way towards the emerging future.
At Collective Tapestry we see our work as weaving the strands for belonging while uplifting the micro practices and mechanisms for change. Together we map the choreography of community, healing, and ultimately, what it means to be human.
Gather the Fragments
Every tapestry contains many strands reminding us that there are different approaches, postures, and understandings of what is happening in our world and how to respond. We believe that the arts and the creative capacities are essential strands to a larger tapestry, creating a sacred space for collective exploration and community poiesis. “Poiesis”, defined by Dr. Stephen Levine, is “the capacity of human beings to respond to difficulty and suffering and to transform them through creative acts that bring beauty into the world.”
