A practice centered on—and a practice of—capacity, community, coalition, and field building rooted in a bodymind politic of creative activism and healing justice within the arts, culture, and care ecologies.
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OUR FOUNDATION
Philosophy:
We are guided by artistocracy—living life in service of art—and bodymind politics that integrate creativity, healing, and justice across arts, culture, and care economies.
Mission:
To empower growth, nurture community, and foster meaningful change through accessible, trauma-informed, neuroinclusive practices in the fine/visual, performing, performance, literary, healing, liberatory, maintenance, experiential, and social practice arts and crafts.
We simplify the journey of transformation by walking alongside individuals and organizations as they build strategic practices that honor their values and create lasting change across arts, culture, health, wellbeing, and social justice work.
Vision:
An equitable society where all individuals thrive, achieve their potential, and contribute meaningfully to their communities. We challenge imperialist, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by demonstrating cooperative principles, democratic governance, and care economics in action.
HOW WE WORK
We steward safe spaces and co-create brave places that serve as incubators for creativity, learning, and transformation.
Our approach is:
Trauma-informed and neuroinclusive
Grief-sensitive and queer-affirming
Rooted in consent culture and community care
Committed to diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, belonging, and justice
Values:
Rest,
Joy,
and Justice
ARTS LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
Strengthens organizational impact through strategic leadership, arts-based research, and capacity building centered on social impact.
Consulting Experience Includes:
ADA/DEI for community arts events
Strategy and Development on rideshare app by and for people with disabilities
Business Management for job placement agency for disabled youth
Thought partner for arts institutions in admin, mission-driven marketing, culturally responsive communications, operations, and programming
Advisory & Committee Board Membership:
Serving on arts and cultural organizations' ADA/DEI advisory boards
Research Fellow & Independent Scholar:
Conducting dramaturgical research, observational studies, and community surveys. Also practices a/r/tography, an arts-based research methodology and framework that integrates the roles of artist, researcher, and teacher through ongoing, living inquiry.
2e Tutoring:
Peer mentoring for twice-exceptional adults navigating giftedness and life on the spectrum. Adults who identify as twice-exceptional and are ready to understand their unique cognitive patterns without pathologizing, develop strategies rooted in self-compassion and sustainability, and connect with peers who share similar experiences.
Expressive Arts Coaching:
Individual expressive arts coaching using the Rest, Joy, Justice framework for personalized creative support in healing, growth, and transformation. A trauma-informed, neuroinclusive approach that meets you exactly where you are in your journey.
INTEGRATIVE ARTS & WELL-BEING PROGRAMMING
Facilitation of workshops, courses, and arts integrated curriculum that weave creative expression with breath, play, flow, and stillness based on the Rest, Joy, and Justice framework delivered through social prescribing and arts on prescription programming as an artist-educator with over 13 years of experience.
Trauma-informed experiments and activations blend radical imagination with wellness, fostering healing and community connection.
Rest, Joy, and Justice:
Rest as Resistance
Joy as Resilience
Justice as Collective Care.
ACTIVISM, ADVOCACY, & SOCIAL JUSTICE WITH/IN THE ARTS
Organizing that advances fair labor practices, civic engagement, and policies supporting marginalized voices.
ASE ACADEMY:
A learning lab that fosters arts ecosystem-based learning integrated with cooperative principles, consent culture, healing justice, creative activism, and social and solidarity economy frameworks within a cooperative learning community structure, professional development, and continuing education.
Arts Workers Union Co-op:
A call for community members, peers, and colleagues to meditate on and manifest a worker-owned collective rooted in liberatory business practices that function on shared entrepreneurship, decentralized funding, and non-hierarchical leadership.
OUR COMMUNITY
We collaborate with fellow artists, organizers, and allies ready to co-create a more just and sustainable present and future. Our community centers Disabled, Chronically Ill, Mad, and Neurodivergent (DCIMND) arts, culture, and care workers alongside Queer, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (2SLGBTQIAPK+BIPOC) practitioners.
As the old adage continues to ring true: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Thank you for choosing to Consult with Kristine as a collaborator, co-creator, and comrade.
Together,
May we embody Rest, Joy, and Justice.
Kristine Leslie
Founder &
Chief Transformation Officer
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