Finding Ourselves and Sharing Our Stories

In this class we seek to find ourselves and others, crossing borders of race, ethnicity, sex, gender, ability, or class that limit and confine us. We explore healing and empowerment in a beloved community made through shared vulnerability, storytelling, and compassionate listening. We create our narratives, seeing our personal stories in the context of broader forces that shape and mark us but do not define us. Our focus is on creating hybrid and synergistic forms of identity and mestiza consciousness in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.