Creative Writing Workshops

Stories are the way we make sense of our lives and the complex experience of living. We tell stories to teach lessons, to practice ceremony, to figure things out, connect to other people, heal, love, make joy, find pleasure, find ourselves, map our relations, honor our traditions and histories, and stitch our worlds together. Sharing stories is a ceremony that recreates our aliveness in relation to place and others. Story craft then can provide us strategies to use stories well, as tools to create the world we want and need, rather than as patterns of internalization and trauma that repeat the violence and injustices we have endured. Amrah provides story craft and poetry workshops for those who want to deepen their creative skills and engage in healing, transformational work relating to social justice, research, art, media, and community building.​

Public Speaking, Workshops, & Facilitation

 Amrah has over 15 years of experience in public speaking and developing materials,
​trainings, and consultations on these topics:

• transnational ethnic studies
  
• Indigenous studies
• non-western political thought and epistemologies
  
• women of color and Indigenous feminisms
• creative writing, story-telling approaches, and literary arts
• Indigenous, Chicanx, and Latinx literature, politics, and history
• U.S.-Mexico border and Indigenous people
• Mexican social movements: Mexican revolution, Magonismo (Mexican anarchism), Zapatismo, critiques of indigenismo, Mexican and Indigenous relations

• transformative justice, decolonizing organizational culture, and building autonomy
• anti-oppression skills and topics
• transformative justice mediation and facilitation
• decolonial love and relationship-based organizing
• research justice, community-based research, and decolonizing research methods​
• decolonial pedagogy and teaching practices
• critically exploring relationships to place: mapping, cartographies, and geographies of self, community, knowledge, and place