Creative Containers

For Organizers and Designers within communities of identity and play (conventions, festivals and nontraditional event spaces).

Playful, engaging workshops customized to the language, culture and existing frameworks of the community

Workshops

Power, Shame, and Whiteness

A reflective container for white allies to examine bias, resilience, and accountability through personal and collective practice.

What's Up Danger? What to Do When You Have No Safety Tools

What happens when safety tools fail mid-game? A workshop for RPG designers, facilitators, and educators on creating emergent safety practices.

Duck, Duck, Octopus: Improv Inclusive Game Design

Explore how improv principles can spark creativity and inclusion in game design. Learn playful tools to co-create mechanics and stories that welcome diverse players and perspectives.

Fighting with Your Fear Response: Trauma Informed Tools for Martial Arts Instructors

Learn practical strategies to recognize and respond to fear and freeze states in training. Build safer, more supportive spaces that help students move through fear with confidence.

The Techologies of Magic

Unpack the rituals, tools, and frameworks humans have used to shape change and meaning. This workshop blends tradition and creativity to explore how magical practices function as technologies of connection, healing, and transformation.

On Doing and Undoing Harm

Understand harm as behavior, not identity. Learn accountability practices, shame resilience tools, and approaches for interrupting cycles of harm.

The Art of the Grant

Grant writing made approachable. Learn the rhythms, pitfalls, and unspoken rules of grant applications with practical tools for creatives and nonprofits.

Rot Witch: The Body as a Decaying Ecosystem

Death and decay as teachers. Explore magical frameworks that honor chronic illness, aging, and the intimate partnership with entropy.

Rot Witch: The Desecrated Sacred

What if abandoned, polluted, or forgotten places are as sacred as untouched groves? Engage in thrutopian storytelling, visualization, and direct action planning.

Tarot for Transformation: The Old Ways Must Go

Learn how “hacking” tarot (or other art-centric imagery) sparks collaborative problem-solving, trauma-informed reflection, and innovative thinking frameworks.

"Sam provides a safe container for exploration of new ideas, journeys, and career adventures; their vast knowledge of different fields and their lived experience occupying a variety of roles has been a vital model for me of building a life that works for me, and has shown me what is possible when we begin to relate to ourselves without the conditioning of capitalism and white supremacy."