Emerciana Desouza
About Emerciana Desouza
art. poetry. healing.
part prayer + part dreaming of ways to survive at this time across many intersections: sexuality, gender, trauma, race, & disability. Reclaiming feminine language, image & power.
Emerciana Desouza Description
Em is a Creative Arts Practitioner, Workshop Facilitator, Reiki Practitioner, Writer, Artist & Free Spirit. Her training in Creative Expressive Therapies (BA Hons), enables me to use a range of creative arts tools in order facilitate personal transformation & growth.
With over 10 years experience providing workshops for both children and adults with a range of abilities, both in educational and community settings. Her ethos is to bring her light into the world and encourage others to do the same!
Reviews
Looking forward to performing at Belper Goes Green tomorrow!
I love this festival, it's a fab day out filled with great music, talks, poetry, food and more!
All welcome! 💜
... #FlashbackFriday #Belper #Poetry #Music #Festival
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Looking forward to performing at Belper Goes Green! There's a lots on, all welcome!
I'll be performing as part of She Speaks this Sunday!! Excited to be joined by Pippa Nayer Performance Poet as well as amazing line up!💜
https://broadly.vice.com/…/kzjnjm/how-t o-be-trans-ally-tips…
It was a great pleasure to host How to change the world without burning out at International Women's Day Derby Festival 2019
Huge thank you to the incredible & inspiring panelists Lucy Kay (Derbyshire Refugee Solidarity sec) & Siobhan Caroline (Founder of Accessible Belper), our wonderful audience and Women's Day Derby for organising this important discussion! 💜
Here are some of the key themes n a nut shell...
... Self Care Tips * Nutrition & eating well e.g. leafy greens * Taking time out in the day to rest e.g. watching neighbours * Delegating responsibilities and tapping into networks for volunteers
How to Re-energize * Results of activism can re-energise e.g. seeing places become more accessible. * Cultivating relationships with family, friends & likeminded people
Parenthood as Activism * Role modelling and involving children in activism as an alternative education to cultivate empathy and compassion towards others. * Activism passed on to daughter who has a wider scope e.g. national & global.
Privilege * Recognising privilege but working from there. * Privilege as a gift from those who worked hard before us.
My Top Tip I held a visualisation exercise at the end and recommend 5-10 mins of switching off, reconnecting with your breath / natural rhythm, releasing tension & relaxing as a regular self care practice.
Are you an activist? What keeps you going? What does Self-Care look like to you?
Big love, Em x
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Happy International Women's Day!!
Excited for the awesome International Women's Day Derby Festival 2019!
I'll be facilitating "How to Change the World without Burning Out" panel discussion with local change-makers Joginder Bains, Siobhan Fennel and Lucy Kay. Exploring healthy activism, self care tips for wellbeing, Q&A and energising visualisation exercise.
... AND
Co-hosting IWD Derby Festival Afterparty with She Speaks! with Lottie_Poet Write Becky Deans Aoife O'Connor - Poet & more!
All Genders Welcome
#iwd2019 #intersectionalfeminism #transinclusive
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Looking forward to performing at this later this eve - pop down for a lovely soulful eve 💜
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