The Somatic Scribing Lab is a hub and laboratory for politicized artists to transform the social art of graphic recording into an anti-colonial language justice framework.  We teach somatic and ecological literacy to help artists, facilitators and movement leaders learn the pattern language of living systems and how to apply them to cultural knowledge production.  Since 2021, The Somatic Scribing Lab has trained over 100 visual facilitators in bridging narrative visual art and embodied liberation, in addition to offering the work freely on The Somatic Scribing Podcast.

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somatic scribing labs + Workshops

Labs and workshop spaces for scribes, facilitators, and movement leaders to explore pattern literacy, investigate their ancestral lineages of sensemaking, and incorporate the body into cultural work.

Somatic scribing podcast

Interviews with clients and collaborators about projects that have catalyzed transformation and radically expanded the possibilities of what scribing can do.

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visual facilitation support

A global network of somatic scribes who are available to support events, gatherings, and more.

Meet the Team

Our global network of somatic scribes

  • @Mare.Verso | mareverso.com

    Adriana Contreras Correal is an Interdisciplinary Artist, bilingual Graphic Recorder and Illustrator (English and Spanish), and dedicated auntie, born in Bogotá, Colombia, living respect and gratitude on the traditional unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. 

    Artistic expression has always been a central part of Adriana's life but became an essential tool for navigating the world as a first-generation immigrant. Her migration journey profoundly informs her work and commitment to social justice at a local and global level. Her role as a Visual Practitioner is to witness, listen deeply, gather information, connect ideas and tell stories. Live scribing and graphic recording serve as living memories of the time we share in dialogue; it is a form of harvesting and mapping of collective wisdom, stories, reflections, questions, and commitments to future action. 

    Adriana completed her BFA at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts in 2006 and has worked and volunteered at numerous Arts and community-based organizations for over 20 years. She is the founder of MareVerso Creative. 

  • @crowcamino www.asthecrowfliesdesign.com

    Kate’s work as a Somatic Scribe amplifies our capacity for living our values more intimately.  In 2022, they established the Somatic Scribing Lab, a hub for ancestral research where they are a teacher of cultural somatics and visual writing systems.  As a cultural worker, Kate works across various visual media, performance art, ritual, and theater, their art surfacing latent wisdom and power in a social ecosystem towards decolonial healing.  They host and produce the Somatic Scribing Podcast, lead Playlab - an embodied research , and write towards and convene transnational conversations about queer pedagogy.  Kate is claimed by and accountable to the U.S. South, where their work land rematriation, water justice, consent, love,  At home Kate serves as a board member of their co-housing community and is a joyful parent in a QTBIPOC unschooling family living on Maskoke territory in Atlanta, GA.

  • emsconstellations.com @ems_constellations

    Emma is an artist, scribe, and community organizer based in Mexico City. Their work centers community care and collective liberation, incorporating visual metaphor, embodiment, and ecological frameworks of interdependence. Emma leverages scribing to create dynamic archives and multilayered maps that make room for complexity. They are currently working with several community groups focused on housing rights and resource redistribution, participating in mutual aid efforts, collaborating on creative solidarity projects, and building a library of political education visuals. 

    As a movement artist, Emma explores collective research processes through the body, inviting a more intimate and reciprocal relationship between “performer” and “audience.” They experiment with movement as embodied sensation/embodied culture and hold play as a core impulse of their practice.

  • Mari Shibuya is an artist, muralist, facilitator, visual strategist, and creative process designer specializing in group facilitation that fosters collaboration, strategic visioning, and collective meaning-making. With over a decade of experience, Shibuya has led workshops and trainings for organizations across the West Coast, working with groups from small teams of 20 to large gatherings of 200. Their facilitation integrates visual language, somatic practices, and experiential learning to help teams navigate complexity, align on shared goals, and co-create strategies for impact. Rooted in the “courtship of creativity as a social technology,” Shibuya designs participatory spaces that center equity, engagement, and collective agency.

  • Ju’Won Vann-Oliver is a visual strategist, healing justice practitioner, storyteller, model, actor, and radical space-holder. He is a commitment to liberating imagination with H.U.G.S. – yes, literal hugs, but also healing, unity, and growth through self-discovery. 

    Animated by liberatory ancestors such as James Baldwin, Ju’Won’s conviction to humanity and justice permeates all that he does.

    He puts his Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University to good use in his day job with Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. 

    Although an Army Brat with roots in eastern North Carolina, Ju’Won now calls Detroit home.

  • IG | @redsbodyart

    Red Rojas is a 2 Spirit, Queer Xicanx tlacuillo (they/them), born and raised in Yanaguana, Somi Se’k (San Antonio, Tx) of Purépecha and Chichimeca Lineage.

    Red is a cultural scribe, multifaceted artist and culture bearer serving as a fire keeper and tlacuillo with Kalpulli Ayolopaktzin. Red reunites themselves and others with ancestral knowledge through their practices in sacred body art, curanderismo, performance art, danza, and palabra. Their work actively centers and uplifts LGBTQ2S BIPOC.

  • Claudia is a visual strategist and graphic facilitator who partners with movements and organizations working toward a world where everyone can thrive. Her practice is rooted in liberatory principles and guided by the belief that understanding and belonging are essential to creating lasting change. She designs processes and visuals that are inclusive, adaptive, and responsive to the unique needs of each group, conversation, and project.

    For the past decade, she has supported social justice and feminist movements at the intersections of race, gender, anti-violence, and climate justice across the globe.

    Born and raised in Mexico, Claudia calls both Oaxaca, Mexico and Brooklyn, New York home.

  • @cosmicfloral / @thecallegory | www.callegory.org

    Orion Camero is a creative force and living collage of experiences, held together by ancestral struggle and commitment to the limitless possibilities of collective liberation. They passionately identify with the detective archetype, and is fueled by the love of characters all over the world to tend the collective process of society's plotline. Inspired by ensemble arcs, he is guided by past episodes of organizing against climate crisis at the international stage, countering corporate privatization of his hometown's river locally, and building a beating heart of power in youth movements by compassionately studying anti-oppression and marginalization in sacrifice zone communities. As a facilitator and program designer, they are most excited about the impact of synthesizing different worlds: from merging arts and political advocacy, using song to metabolize knowledge, and bringing spirit to social movements. They currently hold roles as the Action Lead for strategy hub Narrative Initiative, and the Creative Director for interdisciplinary illustration project, The Callegory.

  • Téyo Saree is a many-generation desert dweller, with roots in southwest New Mexico and Texas. They come to this work as a creative, graphic notetaker, facilitator, and nepantlere. More specifically, they come to this work with a deep passion for, and orientation to cultural organizing: social change work that is rooted in the liberating power of the arts, culture, and creative storytelling. They have worked in a variety of movement and political education spaces, from youth organizing, solidarity economy work, racial and immigration justice, to birthing and gender justice.

  • red rojas

  • adri contreras

  • Orion camero

  • Emma dulski

  • kate morales

  • Claudia lopez