Entering the Home of Imagination: A Liberatory Practice for Just & Thriving Worlds

Working towards just and thriving worlds requires profound imagination. We need to diligently exercise our visionary muscle to have a robust liberatory practice.

In this session, we will use creative writing, communal creation, wakeful dreaming, and what Alixa García calls Creative Somatics to coax the artist within so that it can play with full permission to fail, explore, and reinvent.

Register for and join a generative play-shop with Jam alums from around the world, hosted by Shilpa Jain and facilitated by Alixa García, that will dive deeper into the imaginal field of your life, work, and community.

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About Alixa Garcia:

Alixa García, and alumna of the 2018 Mexico Jam, is a Colombian-born, globally-raised, multidisciplinary artist and cultural creator whose work is imbued in ritual, spirit, and deep reverence for our Great Mother, Great Lover: our Earth. She is a distinguished artist, award-winning poet and organizer, music producer, published author, and movement strategist. Her groundbreaking work with Climbing Poetree set the tone for years of art for movement building, which has had significant ripple effects throughout the world.

With a rich 23-year background in creative strategies for social and environmental movements, curriculum development, and facilitation, Alixa’s expertise has been instrumental in supporting justice leaders, scholars and students, community activists, state representatives, and the nonprofit sector to realize their potential in the areas of creative blueprinting, trans-local and global organizing, and environmental education. Her unique approach centralizes creativity and the role of imagination as an essential tool for liberation.

Alixa is a sought-after public speaker, visual artist, and facilitator. Her work has been published by Whit Press, AK Press, Monacelli, Hatchett, and Daraja Press. She is an editorial board member of the ERA Coalition & Fund for Women’s Equality and the lead curriculum developer and facilitator for the CS Fund Just Transitions 2024-2025 Fellowship Cohort and curator of the Imagination Infrastructure Conference 2024.

Her latest offering, a Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self, uses what she calls Creative Somatics and attention-intensive practices to help move trauma and grief through and out of the body so that we may wholly begin to unearth the visionary within.