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RESEARCH TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Our research training programs aim to support academics, doctoral students, and other organizations in developing their research skills and methodologies. By incorporating art-based approaches, these training workshops can offer a fresh perspective and alternative methods to traditional research practices. Our workshops provide a unique and engaging approach to research and learning by incorporating creative art-based techniques. These workshops are designed to inspire creativity, promote critical thinking, and encourage multidisciplinary collaboration.
Workshops available now
Poetry, Place, and the Politics of Language
Focus: Language learning, place-based literacy, creative expression
Audience: Multilingual adults, literacy workers, educators
Description: Facilitated walk through a neighborhood or memory-mapping exercise leads into co-writing short poems about language, belonging, and place. Poems are shared, discussed, and curated into PhoneMe map.
Collaborative Storytelling for Collective Insight
Focus: Language, memory, identity
Audience: Older adult learners, language instructors, community facilitators
Description: Participants co-create autobiographical stories in small groups using guided prompts. Through rounds of storytelling, reflection, and shared analysis, they identify common themes, emotions, and values. The workshop integrates drawing, dialogue, and theatrical reflection to explore personal narratives as sites of knowledge and social connection.
Teaching outside the lines: Igniting Creativity in the K-12 Classroom through Collaborative Creative Inquiry
Focus: Creativity in the classroom, supporting K-12 learners
Audience: K-12 educators
Description: A hands on workshop that invites educators to consider how they can use Collaborative Creative Inquiry (CC1) with their K-12 students. As a group, we will explore what CCI is and how this might be a tool to use in the classroom to support K-12 learners’ learning. More specifically, educators will come out of this session with arts based ideas that they can be used in their classroom the next day.
Charlas & Comidas: More than focus groups and interviews
Focus: Decolonizing and humanizing qualitative research methods
Audience: Qualitative researchers (especially in education, anthropology, sociology), community-based organizers and activists, students interested in qualitative research
Description: This workshop reimagines traditional focus groups and interviews by centering Charlas (culturally rooted chats) and Comidas (shared meals) as methods to foster equitable, embodied research. Through case studies from Colombian classrooms, participants will critique extractive research norms and practice designing dialogues that prioritize relationship-building. Activities include role-playing Charlas with reflexive prompts, analyzing meal-sharing as a decolonial tool, and co-creating research plans that honor participants’ cultural practices.
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