Creative Witnessing for Life’s Thresholds
How storytelling, dialogue, and art-based inquiry guide people through transformation
The Challenge
We live in a culture that rushes past transition—grief, aging, identity shifts—without offering time, tools, or space to make meaning. Many people move through these experiences feeling unseen, isolated, or overwhelmed.
My work addresses this by creating reflective, creative, and community-rooted spaces where people can explore change, reclaim voice, and reimagine possibility.
My Approach
At the heart of each project is a commitment to creative witnessing—a practice of deep listening, co-creation, and spacious presence. Through workshops, podcasts, dialogues, and digital tools, I help individuals and communities engage life’s thresholds with care, curiosity, and imagination.
Projects
🌀 Aging with Imagination
Reframing aging through creative expression and connection
Originally developed through Groundswell Alternative Business School, this workshop series invited participants—especially women over 50—to explore and reimagine aging. Using art, dialogue, and shared reflection, it created space for joy, insight, and new narratives.
Features:
Weekly and drop-in creative workshops
Intergenerational, gender-inclusive dialogue
Reflective prompts, storytelling, and community-building
Outcomes:
✔ Increased confidence, joy, and connection
✔ Reframed aging as a source of creativity and wisdom
✔ Inspired further offerings including a drop-in series and podcast
🎙️ Triple Threat: Feminist, Fifty-ish & Fabulous
Amplifying voices of women redefining aging
A podcast and monthly community radio show offering “mini-mentorships” through candid conversations with inspiring women over 50. Each episode celebrated resilience, power, and the wisdom that comes with age.
Outcomes:
✔ 28 episodes archived
✔ Built a network of role models for listeners
✔ Extended the Aging with Imagination ethos into media
🎧 Powered by Age Podcast
Empowering older adults through storytelling and digital literacy
In collaboration with Vancouver’s 411 Senior Centre, this community podcast helped seniors develop podcasting skills, share their stories, and address the digital divide. Participants created and produced their own content with support and training.
Outcomes:
✔ Increased digital access and confidence
✔ Strengthened intergenerational and intercultural dialogue
✔ Celebrated diverse voices and life stories
🖍️ Find Your Truth Colouring Book
An artful journey into identity, purpose, and community
A collaboration with Taryn McDonald and Theresa “Tree” Walsh, this colouring book blends symbolic imagery with reflective prompts. Designed as a self-guided journey, it helps users connect with their truth, role in community, and vision for the future.
Outcomes:
✔ Accessible, creative tool for personal growth
✔ Sparks conversation around identity and contribution
✔ Suitable for individual or group use
🕯️ Reimagining Loss
A grief support group using creativity to process and transform loss
Initiated in 2020 during a time of collective and personal loss, this twice-monthly group used art and storytelling to make meaning of grief. Re-launched in 2024, the group continues to offer space for reflection and renewal.
Outcomes:
✔ Helped participants process grief with tenderness and agency
✔ Supported connection and healing through shared creative practice
✔ Reframed grief as an ongoing, life-affirming conversation
🗣️ Dialogic Experiments V2
Experimental, responsive facilitation at the edge of dialogue and art
Part of the School of Making Thinking residency in NYC, this project consisted of five cascading conversations, each one responding to what emerged in the last. It offered a space for emergent inquiry, relational awareness, and co-creation.
Outcomes:
✔ Modeled non-linear, collaborative facilitation
✔ Created deep intellectual and emotional engagement
✔ Informs the dialogic approach in all my facilitation work
🌿 Collaborative Hope
A digital reflection on collective learning in Art for Social Change
Created as the culminating project of our M.Ed. in Art for Social Change at Simon Fraser University, this collaborative website explored themes of vulnerability, emergence, and time. It served as both archive and invitation, documenting our process while engaging others in their own (with Anita Olson).
Outcomes:
✔ Blended critical theory with lived experience
✔ Created a public platform for ASC methodology
✔ Served as a tool for future learners and facilitators
✦ The Through Line
Whether the focus is aging, grief, identity, or collective inquiry, my work centers on creative witnessing—meeting people where they are and offering tools, questions, and space to move through transition. I hold space for vulnerability, transformation, and what comes next.