Curiosity as Inner-Alchemy

Abstract:

Abstract: What if the change we are trying to create can only be actualized in relationship to the amount of change we are able to cultivate within ourselves? What if the more we seek to care for our bodies and care for others equally - we can organically create the shifts we want to see in the world? The Curiosity as Inner-Alchemy workshop offers you a journey through exploring your own spiritual practices and belief systems in contrast to how you express yourself and interact with the world. During this workshop in a large group we will learn a framework to process your personal context and have a large group share back regarding how uses and abuses of spiritual power in alternative spiritualities has impacted you, impacted others, and what you desire to see in the world moving forward.

Presenter bio: Tianna Renee Arredondo (they/them) is an artist, facilitator and environmental justice (EJ) organizer. Most of their work has focused on supporting fossil fuel divestment efforts supporting campaigns at the United Nations Conference of the Parties as well as focused on protections within United States through supporting local battles. Tianna has served as a climate change generalist creating and supporting intergenerational and intersectional strategies to work towards having clean air, clean water, affordable housing, equitably priced electricity, nutritious food, and other EJ efforts. They have created more than 600 unique paintings, journaling prompts, and poems used as tools for their storytelling studio and regeneraetive consultancy genuinely curious. They make music as the artist vssl on all streaming platforms. Writing is what fuels and supports all of their work. They hope to create an archive of scholarship, screenplays, and other forms of engaging content that shares stories from colliding of lived experience, research, and art.

Presenter affiliation: genuinely curious