A great process can restore trust in relationships and faith in the future. We love leading processes where everyone is a teacher, everyone is a learner, and all learn together to envision a more just and beautiful future.
In the midst of rising authoritarianism and plummeting civic trust, people organize, as we always have, to uplift the best parts of ourselves. We build thriving communities. Social justice movements continue doing their vital work. WhyWOW Studio’s programs, training offerings, services, and creative projects support thriving ecosystems of community organizers and people who, against all odds, work for the public good.
Training Offerings:
Creative and experiential workshops for community groups seeking to develop skills in advocacy, communication, strategic planning, and collaboration. -
Design justice: Experiential learning in activism and design with a focus on advocating for social justice in the built environment.
- Leadership development: Introduction to the creative principles of applied theatre to develop capacities for connecting with others, including deep listening, storytelling, and role-playing.
- Narrative Strategy: We stoke the fire of social movements by tending to radical imagination, and by nurturing the responsibility for powerful storytelling that builds new worlds in the shell of the old.
Capacity Building Services:
We provide strategy, design, and training services for the education, community organizing, and the arts & culture fields.-
Community engagement activations + strategy
- Evaluation and impact assessment
- Fundraising strategy
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Facilitation
- Narrative strategy
- Participatory action research (PAR)
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Program evaluation
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Program development
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Qualitative research
- Strategic planning
C Meranda Flachs-Surmanek (background) facilitating at the Theater of Change Forum at Columbia Law School
Past Clients:
- Broadway Advocacy Coalition
- Center for Imagining & Performing Justice
- Engaging Local Government Leaders
- The Clinic Performance
- Livelihood Knowledge Exchange Network