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This teacher-training course is for anyone interested in studying, practising and using the Anitafrika Method in their practice as an artist, teacher and/or decolonial facilitator.

Curated by d’bi.young anitafrika, the Anitafrika Method teacher-training was devised specifically as a train-the-trainer course. The certification in the Anitafrika Method entitles the practitioner to teach the method throughout the world.

As a 12-month intensive in decolonial arts, psycho-somatic healing and socio-political-spiritual transformation, the teacher-training course guides the practitioner through the process of facilitating Stages 1-3 of the Anitafrika Method—Personal Transformation, Artistic Expression & Community Embodiment. The program consists of three online modules which each begin with a week-long (residential or virtual) decolonial arts residency. During the first three-month module, the mentee studies the method as an arts practitioner and assists in a week-long residential intensive (Artistic Practice Module), followed by a three to four-week period of fieldwork. The second three-month module focuses on how to teach the method to others and provides the practitioner with the opportunity to participate in curating a residential intensive (Pedagogy Module), followed by another three to four-week period of fieldwork. During the final three-month module, the practitioner apprentices with d'bi.young anitafrika as co-facilitator in a Decolonial Arts Residency hosted by UBUNTU! Decolonial Arts Centre (Decolonial Pedagogue Module).

Course requirements for certification include:

participation in a minimum of 2 one-to-one decolonial arts residencies with d’bi.young anitafrika (residential or virtual)

assisting, co-curating, and co-facilitating 3 decolonial arts residencies at UBUNTU! Decolonial Arts Centre

facilitating 3 solo practitioner-led Anitafrika Method workshops (residential or virtual)

writing 3 practice-as-research essays, one on each stage of the Anitafrika Method (4500 words): Personal Transformation, Artistic Expression and Community Embodiment

writing a dissertation on the Anitafrika Method as a decolonial framework (7500 words)

solo curating a 2-3 day long Anitafrika Method residency intensive

practitioners are required to renew their Anitafrika Method teaching certificate every 3 years by attending a week-long teacher-training residency intensive

The program fee is $21,000USD

*Please note that the pre-requisite for teacher-training is the successful completion of Stages 1-3 of the Anitafrika Method.

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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.