natty abdou (she/they)

I am a community facilitator, theatre artist, life-long learner and creative soul. I have spent the last 15+ years co-creating environments for reflection and learning – embracing a vision of solidarity, social justice and change from the inside-out. In weaving the threads of participatory, creative, embodied and play-based practices I invite the whole of our minds, hearts, bodies and souls in the process personal and collective transformation.  I experience the arts as portals of transformation – making space for our souls to dance, breathe, heal and unleash the deep wisdom that resides within.   

I am a freelance consultant as Weaving Connections (Toronto, Nova Scotia & Egypt) and currently collaborate with Bloom Consulting (Toronto), Branch Out Theatre (Toronto), Interplay (Oakland, CA), supporting processes of equity and inclusion; participatory leadership; conflict resolution and community healing.  In my spare time I can be found in one of four homes – dancing ecstatically in Toronto, learning from the land in Madoc, playing in the waters of rural Nova Scotia or connecting with my ancestral roots in Egypt.  I am grateful to the land, all my sentient relations and the ancestors of the places and spaces that have claimed me.