Intra-Action
Build connection, acting, resilience, and storytelling skills. Using breath, movement, and character development practices, we help people notice their nervous system responses to become aware of the stories we tell about ourselves and our environment.
Play
Build deeper connections and get curious by playing fun games and being silly together.
Diffraction
Explore topics of common concern in a co-learning and creative environment.
Creative Becoming*
Collaborate to co-create new stories.
OUR PROGRAM
With a spirit of curiosity, we create a world of play that values difference and builds a courageous community of collective care. Creative Becoming classes include theatre games, singing, making music, poetry, creative writing, creative expression, somatic-based practices, and lots of storytelling. They are fun, healing, and surprising. We will change and grow together.
Each class and course follows a four-step feedback loop of:
*Creative Becoming is an applied performance method conceived of by Dr. Ballew as a result of pedagogical research that spanned over a decade in women's prisons and with people in reentry. It is an adaptation or updating of Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Theatre of the Oppressed through queer performativity, quantum physics, and somatic psychology to produce a program that engages body-mind-spirit through play and creativity. We look at theatre and performance as a set of tools we can pull from to help us listen and respond collaboratively to challenges in a playful manner that shows care and seeks healing for the whole.
A care-based framework for healing, expression, and creative becoming (positive evolution). Rooted in an ethic of care and developed through years of teaching in carceral spaces, it invites queer people to move, make, and imagine together.
2025 Classes:
Initial class offerings include:
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Virtual classes through the Let's Reimagine platform
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Thursdays at 7:00 PM starting October 9th
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The method unfolds through a feedback spiral of Intra-action, Play, Diffraction, and Creative Becoming, blending somatic practice, storytelling, and theatre-based creation. Participants explore differences, build trust, and co-create rituals and performances that reflect their lived experiences.
Creative Becoming centers care, creativity, and connection—not binaries or systems.
