WHAT IS CULTURAL SOMATICS?

In 2021 I set out to redefine the field of visual practitioners - sometimes referred to as graphic facilitation - and resituating visual writing systems as ancestral technologies rooted in Indigenous and pre-colonial cosmologies.

After a decade of being a scribe and a visual facilitator, I have come to understand that scribing as an anti-colonial narrative strategy requires an embodied way of being and knowing that situates our knowledge production inside of a field of relationality - to ourselves, each other, and to the land.

I now teach Somatic Scribing as an explicitly anti-colonial language justice framework that offers embodied, ecological grounding for deindigenized and diasporic peoples to engage in knowledge production/record keeping/archiving from an animist world-view.   In my work as an author, playwright, and podcast host, I teach somatic and ecological literacy and help artists, facilitators and movement leaders learn the pattern language of living systems.  I have a background in permaculture, agroecology, co-living models, and various healing arts that all inform my work from an environmental and public health perspective. 

In addition to supporting movement organizers, philanthropy, and educational institutions I work with frontline activists in the Stop Cop City movement, serve on the board of my co-housing community, hang with the youth in our homeschooling coop, and collaborate with various arts networks responding to the genocide in Gaza and beyond.