LEARNING for implementation & practice

We believe art and play are essential, but often missing components of peace building, group process, crisis response and trauma healing. The arts can help to inform the work of change-agents and offer containers that help to hold change.

We partner with groups and organizations to design training, curriculum, and other learning & reflective spaces for community care.

  • Facilitation & Training

    We create reflective community care experiences and train groups on how to provide a psychosocial arts-based response built on collective hope.

    We provide facilitation & training in the areas of: trauma, peace building, conflict transformation, resilience, and how to cultivate practices and rhythms for self and collective care.

  • Coaching & Program Design

    We co-design interventions and develop innovative methodologies and practices by working with groups and organizations to design their own response to the needs and opportunities in their context.

  • Creative MOVES

    New Project Development piloting this June: Creative MOVES, a toolkit that trains children and youth in how to integrate arts-based social and emotional skills for resilience. Through play and creative expression participants explore how they can move towards health and safety.

A Sample of Current & Past Learning Partners.

  • Using the arts in youth detention centers

    Collective Tapestry worked in partnership to provide training to 45 leaders in El Salvador and Honduras in arts based trauma informed work. This group of leaders is now currently working with over 400 youth in 8 detention centers across both countries.

  • Welding Resilience

    The Tapestry team is actively designing a curriculum in partnership with a community-based welding project that provides training for young men and women. Recognizing a need to address trauma in the community and create healing spaces for men, this partner group is creatively exploring how to integrate resilience based principles into their work so that participants are learning the important skills for life and have a safe place to share their stories. Collective Tapestry is working with the team to design the project and how the welding space might continue to deepen its work in the community.

  • Building the Immune System

    Presently in the co-creation process for an upcoming training in Germany focused on building a community’s immune system through community art. Community art within the Expressive Arts is designed to strengthen the ‘immune system’ of a group.

  • The Network

    Collective Tapestry is currently accompanying a group of dedicated nuns who are working against human trafficking with trauma competency training and victim response tools and resources.

Learn With Us

Our Offerings

  • The Impact of Trauma: Weaving Tapestries of Care

    Learn about the impact of trauma on the mind and body and frameworks for response and accompaniment for individuals and groups. This is an experiential workshop and participants will receive practical tools and ideas to apply in their settings.

  • Arts-Based Interventions & Practices

    Introduction to evidence-based approaches to healing through the arts. Learn practices and creative ways to integrate the arts into your context and explore how to combine the framework of the arts into your group’s existing interventions and strategies.

  • Building Team & Group Cultures

    Learn how to be a creative facilitator, integrating practices, routines, and rituals into group spaces that can produce a meaningful group culture, deepen connections, and create space for ongoing team needs. Participants can learn new strategies and tools to integrate into their work and context.

  • Encrucijadas

    Train as an Encrucijadas Group Animator, learning key skills and practices to work with groups in diverse contexts. This training is specifically geared to groups working with refugees and migrants at this time.

  • The Art of Resilience

    A 2-day workshop for groups and organizations to participate in team building and learn how to integrate resilience practices to navigate stress, fatigue and burnout.

  • Custom-Built Training

    Contact us to custom build a training or reflection space for your community. We provide trainings and facilitation uniquely tailored to your organizational and group needs focused on your specific work and context.

We create spaces where people can imagine new possibilities towards communal practices of connection and healing.

Images shot on location at Warren Chair Works