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Option #3 centres on Stages 1, 2 & 3 of the Anitafrika Method—Consciousness, Creativity and Community.

Stage 1—Self-Transformation supports the practitioner in metabolising past and present toxic stress/trauma through a Black feminist decolonial somatic trauma-informed framework

Stage 2—Creative Expression guides the practitioner through creating the first draft of a biomyth (mono)drama as decolonial performance autoethnography, inspired by discoveries from Stage 1

Stage 3—Community Embodiment prepares the practitioner for community engagement and sharing of their art creation.

Are you an artist, educator, healer, activist, and/or practitioner humxn being, on any path of life who desires decolonial growth and change psycho-emotionally, spiritually, socio-politically, and creatively? Curated by d’bi.young anitafrika, being was devised specifically to support practitioners through nurturing holisitic self-care, creative growth, and community transformation, using the Anitafrika Method. This is a self-paced decolonial arts and embodiment course. This is a 27-33 Day Residency (if you work consecutively), however it can extend to three months. You are encouraged to work at your own pace. being is holistic transformation.

*Please note that taking this residency does not entitle you to teach the Anitafrika Method. If you are interested in teacher-training please Click Here.

With ongoing support from d’bi.young, the practitioner decides:

• on what day to begin and culminate their residency (within 3 months of purchase)

• when to engage in program activities

• when to take pauses for critical reflection

• what creative work/s to cultivate

• when to engage with d’bi.young for one-to-one sessions (within 3 months of purchase)

being includes:

• 15 hours of one-on-one workshops with d’bi.young anitafrika throughout your residency (upon request)

  • self-transformation support

  • support with devising creative work

  • guided meditations

• 3-month access to Dubbin Praxis: Intro to the Anitafrika Method (d’bi.young anitafrika’s ongoing PhD research on Decolonial Praxis, Performance & Pedagogy via the Anitafrika Method)

• Anitafrika Method Card Deck (supplied upon completion of the course)

• three month streaming access to 12 pre-recorded private residency lectures by d’bi.young anitafrika

• three month streaming access to The Sankofa Trilogy featuring three biomyth monodramas by d’bi.young anitafrika:

  • Blood.Claat

  • Benu

  • Word! Sound! Powah!

The Anitafrika Method is an integrative, critically-reflexive, trauma-informed, decolonial-Black-feminist framework created by d’bi.young anitafrika. It is practitioner-centred-arts-based intervention that nurtures self-transformation, creative expression & community embodiment. Fundamental principles of the praxis are Self-Knowledge, Politics, Orality, Language, Rhythm, Urgency, Sacredness, Integrity and Experience, explored through the Physical, Emotional, Mental, Creative, Exchange, Spiritual, Community, Energy, and Earth Bodies.

Rooted in the emancipatory Dub Poetry & Dubbin Theatre that emerged out of Jamaica in the 1980s, the method is directly influenced by Anita Stewart’s 1985 Drama School dissertation entitled Dubbin Theatre: Moving Dub Poetry Into a Theatrical Realm. Practitioners move through an integrative psychosomatic process of introspection; metabolising past experiences of pain while applying critical-reflexivity to deepen awareness of self and how one positions socio-culturally and politically, in relation to others. These discoveries catalyse personal and professional growth that culminate in biomyth artistic formulations.

Anitafrika Method applications include personal, professional and community development in transformation, actualisation, playmaking/playwriting, solo performance, visual and performing arts, dramaturgy, drama therapy, conflict resolution, transformational justice, health intervention, anti-racist and anti-oppression facilitation, decolonising curricula, critical pedagogy and community building. Click here read more about the Anitafrika Method.

d’bi.young anitafrika is an African-Jamaican-Canadian London-based Dub Poet, Theatre Interventionist and Decolonial Scholar who is committed to creating and nurturing art that ritualises acts of transformation from violence inflicted upon the people and the planet. Click here to read d’bi.young anitafrika’s complete bio.