Stuart Taylor: Artist. Systemic Consultant. Transcultural & Transformative Coach. Writer.
In Community We Heal (ICWH) will offer participants the opportunity to directly experience ceremonies, exercises and processes drawn from the field of Systemic Constellations Practice.
Stuart is an interdisciplinary artist and will bring to bear experience and insights gained from over thirty years of professional practice in the UK and internationally. He will share through a creative lens, approaches and pathways into personal, family, community, environmental, organisational, strategic and visioning perspectives, the accessible, flexible and pragmatic applications of Systemic Constellations Practice.
Stuart identifies as a Black British decolonial scholar-activist. He is an Associate Consultant with Black South West Network, where he is contributing to the National Lottery Heritage Fund supported, UnMuseum Curatorium Cultural Heritage project.
Born and raised in coastal South Devon (The English Riviera) in the 1960s-1970s, Stuart subsequently moved to London. He has enjoyed a kaleidoscopic career spanning the activism, arts, cultural, charity, corporate, entrepreneurial, philanthropic and therapeutic sectors. He is a published writer of fiction, poetry and prose, a graduate of TrinityLaban Conservatoire for Music and Dance and former visiting Artist at Dartington College of Arts. Stuart has received multiple awards and scholarships over the course of his career, the catalysts for the sustained international dimensions of his work.
Walking the Bones Home
Georgina Amankwah Parke, diasporan guide, writer and psychotherapist.
On this killing field, standing barefoot, white robed under a full moon, you knock thrice upon the dungeon door at Cape Coast, with the priest, keeper of the fortress- the spirits are listening- will they permit you to enter, to lay down on the dungeon floor in the darkness as they did? What will you say? How are you in your coming?
Amankwah shares embodied ancestral fieldscapes through West Alkebu-Lan.
In this resonant, liminal space Amankwah invites you to listen to and embody your inspiration, enliven your imagination. Arriving empty, trusting emptiness, you will be lifted and guided and astonished by the beauty of your unique and precious ancestral journey home.
The session is one of two and will run 6-9pm. We recommend that participants attend both workshops (the second is Tuesday 6th June) but this is advisory and isn't essential.
A workshop as part of the
Active Archives + Afrikan As Future
Summertide Seminary
(nouns : the summer season / a place of origin and propagation)
A Creative Exploration Into Healing June 4th -11th at The Mount Without Bristol