With support from the California Arts Council, A PLACE OF HER OWN, an arts-based healing program for women of color, will be able to sustain its core infrastructure: director’s and facilitators’ salaries, administration, and rent. It will also help us to continue to expand our virtual and in-person engagement to sustain and scale our ability to support women of color and their communities. We provide culturally sensitive, artistic tools and community to help heal generational patterns of trauma and continue to build the inner strength of our alumni, those women who have engaged with PLACE’s in-depth programming.
We believe that providing women a place, a path, and tools to heal is the foundation for building self-agency into leadership and ensuring sustainable community equity.
We offer both hybrid, online and in-person lectures, workshops, art exhibitions, lectures and artists’ talks sharing intuitive art making processes for self-reflection, and group discussions that help explore and release generational family trauma. Participants learn to recognize and release family patterns, including links to cultural and societal dysfunction. To claim aspirations, and grow self-agency, the art workshops, artists’ talks and exhibitions provide platforms to artistically answer the question: “If you had a place of your own, what would it be?” This is an artistic exercise in “self-agency”.
Below is our foundational hybrid, virtual and in-person workshop series with the goal of providing a printed book and an online e-learning engagement tools.
Foundational WORKSHOP Residency series in 4 PHASES (These can be delivered separately)
Preparation: Turning on Your Intuition: Intuitive Collage. Experience accessing your intuition and turning off your analytic brain.
Phase 1: Exploring Hungry Ghosts– Identifying family patterns and beliefs holding you back.
Phase 2: Releasing Hungry Ghosts– Art projects to release beliefs and patterns no longer serving you. Practicing self-acceptance and forgiveness.
Phase 3: Claiming My PLACE– Intuitive Art creation in answer to, “If you had a place of your own, what would it be?”
Phase 4: Proclaiming My PLACE– The Exhibition/Artists’ Talk. A public statement of what you want for your life. Practice overcoming fear of judgement.
Leadership Development:
PLACE works to provide alumni with opportunities for deeper healing and development of self-agency into leadership. Alumnae are invited to participate as exhibition artists, workshop facilitators, speakers, event coordinators and community workshop collaborators.

