training topics
Creative Praxis is an art-based, healing-centered, joy-filled training organization for youth,
educators, and community members working towards liberation.
All trainings are available in-person and online. Creative Praxis works with community to adapt all trainings to meet the need. All trainings can be adapted for multiple audiences: young people, educators, community members.
“Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it."
- Paulo Freire
Anti-racism
Our Anti-Racism Education Trainings include:
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Liar, Farmer, Commander: an anti-racist and re-indigenized training
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Media Literacy 101
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Community and Youth Organizing
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The Power of Words
trauma-informed
Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered trainings include:
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Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Spaces
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Self and Community Care
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Compassion Fatigue
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Working Through Grief and Loss
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
- Maya Angelou
“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed.”
- Paulo Freire
RESTORATIVE PRACTICES
Restorative Practice trainings include:
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Restorative Practices 101 and 102
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Boundaries
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Empathy and Shame
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Building Community and Repairing Harm
ethos
Ethos trainings include:
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Youth Programming 101
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Recruitment
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Youth Retention and Engagement
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Youth Safety
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Youth-Centered Monitoring and Evaluation
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I Am and We Are: understanding personal narrative, identities, and history and how they show up in learning spaces
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Creative Facilitation: a train-the-trainer for facilitators, educators, artists, and organizers
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.”
- President Barack Obama
art infusion
Art Infusion trainings include:
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Art Integration
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Embodied Practices
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Art and Healing
community building
Community Building trainings include:
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Conflict and De-escalation
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Community Building
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The Power of Dialogue
"I am what I am because of who we all are."
- Ubuntu