facilitation
Rafael/a’s training as a trauma-informed bodyworker and healing artist gives him the tools to steward collective process through embodied and creative approaches. When working with relatives and workshop participants, Rafael/a strives to center the experiences of our most marginalized and vulnerable communities. He enters collective process with the intent to ground the collective, offer resourcing practices, and encourage boundaries as a form of connection. He works along the edges of each collective’s growth and offers exercises for the many forms of release or change that can occur during collective work. Because he is a bodyworker and movement artist at heart, Rafael/a emphasizes somatic understanding and practice as a core aspect of his facilitation approach. He enjoys creating bridges and accesible ways for all people to support and protect our most targeted, but no less powerful communities such as trans, Black, Indigenous, and people of color in institutional and communal settings.