Edyka Chilomé is an experienced educator that brings activism to pedagogy. Her workshop focus on the healing power of story and community, weaving in the wisdom of indigenous thought and tradition. Book Edyka today to facilitate a passionate and transformative workshop tailored for your community.
WORKSHOP THEMES:
Our Spoken Word: Poetry as Activism
This interactive workshop is designed to engage participants of all levels in the artistic production and power of Spoken Word or “Slam Poetry”. Through this engagement participants will explore questions that touch on 3 major points
The Mestiz@ Complex
This workshop is intended to examine the contemporary and intersectional politics around Latinx identity. It's objectives include
Living Beyond Theory
This workshop is intended to invite students and academics to examine traditional ideas around critical thinking and knowledge production.
The objectives of this workshop include
Exploring Our Medicine: Spiritual Activism 101
This workshop is grounded in indigenous teachings and political resistance movements around self care and decolonizing health. The objectives of this workshop include
Womyn and Self Care: Honoring Our Mothers Wounds
Grounded in the same principles as "Exploring Our Medicine: Spiritual Activism 101", this workshop focuses on the historical and contemporary experience of women and the concept of the "motherline". Its particular objectives include
Our Spoken Word: Poetry as Activism
This interactive workshop is designed to engage participants of all levels in the artistic production and power of Spoken Word or “Slam Poetry”. Through this engagement participants will explore questions that touch on 3 major points
- Understanding the creative practice of Spoken Word
- Developing skills to engage in performance poetry
- Exploring the ways Spoken word can be a cultural and political tool within community
The Mestiz@ Complex
This workshop is intended to examine the contemporary and intersectional politics around Latinx identity. It's objectives include
- Examining the historical role of language and power in the experience of the Americas
- Unpacking the power of naming self and lived experience
- Understanding the politics of reindigenizing and decolonizing identity to empower individuals and communities.
Living Beyond Theory
This workshop is intended to invite students and academics to examine traditional ideas around critical thinking and knowledge production.
The objectives of this workshop include
- Identifying the challenges of marginalized bodies within formal education.
- Understand the importance of critical thinking and engaging knowledge production inside and outside of the formal classroom.
- Challenge students and academics to reinvest in communities outside of academia as a strategy for survival and empowerment.
Exploring Our Medicine: Spiritual Activism 101
This workshop is grounded in indigenous teachings and political resistance movements around self care and decolonizing health. The objectives of this workshop include
- Understanding the general concepts of Spiritual Activism
- Identifying the already existing resource of health and self care within a given community
- Sharing alternative frameworks and modalities of healing and activism that are grounded in indigenous thought and cosmologies.
Womyn and Self Care: Honoring Our Mothers Wounds
Grounded in the same principles as "Exploring Our Medicine: Spiritual Activism 101", this workshop focuses on the historical and contemporary experience of women and the concept of the "motherline". Its particular objectives include
- Exploring the intergenerational and intersectional effects of patriarchy on the experience of "Womyn"
- Understanding the power of self care and healing as a form of activism
- Identifying alternative frameworks and modalities of healing and activism that are grounded in indigenous thought and cosmologies.