Orúkọ mi ń jẹ́ Imọlẹ and I mostly go by they/them pronouns.
I’m an Afro-diasporic trans non-binary person. Black, mixed, queer, femme, boi, genderfluid, probably autistic, officially ADHD. None of these labels fully define me. Yet, all of them shape how I move through the world and how I hold space.
I study Theatre, Film and Media Studies & Comparative Literature. I'm a poet-singer-writer and a learning facilitator in (life-long) training with a special focus on dyslexia, dyscalculia and AD(H)D. As long as I can remember, I have believed that everyone has their own unique intelligence. Learning to me isn't about perfection: It’s about being in relationship with ourselves and the world. I’m endlessly curious about how we live in alignment with our values and how we heal through creativity. I’ve been outspoken against the genocides currently unfolding, because I care deeply about liberation for all oppressed people. One of my workshops for Mental Health Awareness Week in Vienna—where I was born and have lived for most of my life—was on Decolonizing Therapy Together.
My commitment is to create offerings that don’t replicate the very systems of harm we’re trying to heal from. I’ve been told that conversations with me feel like therapy. Sometimes, in just one deep conversation, people remember old creative dreams they thought they had lost. It’s what happens when we feel deeply seen.
I'm excited to connect my offer with students, teachers, therapists, healers, creatives of all kinds, activists, whoever is interested in learning a new skill or picking up a long-forgotten one, and, whoever is navigating the heartbreak of oppression. I believe my gift lies offering a space to go beyond the theory of learning into the embodiment and practice of our values // who our collective needs us to be. My playful and poetic sessions directly or indirectly touch on all areas of life, but creative fulfillment and social justice are at the heart of what I do.
My ethical boundaries
One of my most important boundaries is that I don't accept money from people who are in a financially precarious situation. I'd rather you seek support in other ways that don't put you financially more at risk. I do offer free sessions and I do community work where I don't charge anything or that is donation-based.
I'm not a therapist and I have no intentions of replacing therapy through my offer. Rather, I even encourage and support those who seek out my offer to find a therapist that aligns with them. Western therapy has it's colonial history, but it would be too binary to suggest that there's no healing to be found in it. However...
Embodied Learning is for you, if you are a compassionate, sensitive and non-judgmental soul. It's for you, if you're not a black-and-white thinker, if you can hold multiple truths and embrace paradoxes. If you're in solidarity with marginalized and oppressed groups, it's for you, no matter which identities you hold. If you're someone who doesn't want to see other people's downfall but rather lift each other up and gently support each other in our learning journeys; if you honor that mistakes are a beautiful and necessary part of any journey; if you love poetry, storytelling and music and you don't see art as a "weak” form of resistance; if you are a dreamer; if you love transformative and healing approaches to justice; if you don't uphold grind culture and “needing to be strong”; if you just wanna rest without guilt, guess what? It's so for you. I'm so here for that. Embodied Learning is for you if at the end of the day, no matter how cruel the world gets, you'd choose love.
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