We believe in the power of the community and its ability to heal, transform, educate, organize and ultimately be a catalyst for individual and collective liberation. Our community-centered approach is especially relevant for educators, organizers, and institutions in Philadelphia who seek to build sustainable, healing-centered environments.

Therefore, we emphasize community building as a foundational process in each training. Creative Praxis is grounded in 4 key principles of community building:

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• Entering, building, and exiting community: How do we enter into space with another human being? How do we build coming from an asset-based, humanistic framework? How do we exit community in a way that honors the land, the people, and the relationships built?

• I AM: Creating intentional time for people to explore and share their history, culture, identity, and dreams. What sets us apart is our emphasis on interactive facilitation. Our facilitators bring trauma-informed, arts-based methods that activate learning.

• WE ARE: Creating intentional time for the group to establish shared principles and cultivating collective power, trust, and safety​

• The role of conflict in building community: Conflict is a necessary component of building community as it allows to the group to confront and resist systemic oppression and the way it manifests itself in the individual and the group. Our conflict resolution training for schools is designed to move beyond behavior management and instead foster honest, restorative dialogue that builds long-term trust.

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Building community in your school, program, or organization is an everyday commitment. Through our culturally responsive trainings, we facilitate deeper understanding of the collective and individual identities and experiences in the room. From there, we are able to build a more solid and resilient foundation.

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To learn more about how Creative Praxis builds community, visit the main Approaches and Trainings page or email info@creativepraxis.org.