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.
WhyWOW works with communities to foster critical engagement with the places we inhabit, the stories we carry, and our capacity for change. We are known for developing theater-based living history projects that bring groups to the stage and each other to collectively share their own stories surrounding three questions: Who are we? What do we represent? How do we want to be remembered?
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.- Arts-in-Health and Creative Aging Program Development
- Arts Residencies
- Communication + Collaboration Coaching
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Community engagement activations + strategy
- Evaluation and impact assessment
- Fundraising strategy
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Workshop Facilitation (retreats available)
- Narrative strategy
- Participatory action research (PAR)
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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