Workshops
Sufi Pedagogy
I offer workshops for higher education professionals from a sufi cosmos; one where the central principle of teaching is healing, achieved through the Persian sufi practice of eshgh (love/union).
+ We decolonize and enrich understandings of self-other as places to learn and teach from.
+ We come to our shared table with our full selves honored -- we cultivate you as a teacher, in your light and lineages, identities, and stories held in the center of your emerging practice. And we learn how to foster a classroom that does the same for our students.
+ We discuss and practice the art of midwifery: the birth of self and purpose as scholarship.
+We may discuss what diversity is in classrooms beyond identity politics, as a practice of community and radical self/acceptance.
+We share our struggles to find love and justice on campus and in our work, our barriers, and our possibilities and power for fostering change moving forward.
+We create and inform revolutionary syllabi and class policies in order to foster healthy healing and learning experiences for all in our seminars and classrooms.
+We will discuss love as radical transformative relationality: what on earth is it? And how is it scholarship?
+We make space for your fears, joys, anticipations, needs, and offerings as educators. We attend to our own wounds around learning and teaching.
+We discuss anger, anxiety, oppression, depression, and other healing crises we experience as teachers and with our students. We find ourselves able to hold space, have boundaries, and offer peace.
+We foster learning experiences to deepen our understanding of trauma, power, and consent.
These workshops are highly personalized -- as sufi practice unfolds, so does the material we share between us at the time.
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My work is based off of over a decade of practices: as a radical community educator, as a sufi dancer, and as anti-oppression + consent workshop facilitator.
Scholarly Love:
1-1 healing as research, research as healing
I offer one on one work for those who are working on or channeling a research project of any kind. We will orient our work together as sacred, healing, and with the guidance of your highest good.
We can begin with each other at any stage of your work. We might discuss journeying, dream travel, your spirituality, your ancestry, your gifts, your forgotten lives, your skills that yearn for your touch, your secret obsessions, and your truest desires for transformation and change. I consider my work a practice of midwifery: you guide this process fully.
Together we will empower your deep inner knowingness, your gut feeling and impulsivity as the voice of g8d within you: you teach yourself. We will tend to that godly earache we call your life purpose.
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I am not a therapist, I am a sufi teacher; but sufi work is deep, and can fill gaps that traditional talk therapy might not provide, whether culturally, religiously, or because of difference in ability/neurodivergence. In saying this, I indicate that we will, if needed, discuss how to integrate and feel empowered to access the many resources, spiritual, material, and otherwise, in/as your community (such as chaplains, or faith leaders, therapists, grief workers, medical professionals, etc).
I am particularly equipped for interfaith and ancestral healing work. We will hold space for everyone who comes to our table with you, and honor them and what they have to say.
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We will set goals, and also learn how to be flexible in meeting them. We will also unlearn goal setting, unlearn linearity, and find our authentic relation to time and timing.
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We will open ourselves up to transforming.
We can use the word god, or not, or any words you choose to identify the mystical, the powerful, the energetic.