Kelvy Bird and Reilly Dow are both brilliant scribes, facilitators and teachers. Kelvy is the author of Generative Scribing: A Social Art of the 21st Century and is one of my scribing elders, friendtors, and just general artist crushes. Both Kelvy and Reilly are co-facilitating the upcoming Scribing Essentials Course from April 24-28, so if by the end of this convo we have swooned you into wanting to become a scribe, you can find information about that course in the show notes, it’s going to be fabulous. In this conversation, we discuss the need for social art practitioners to advocate for group storytelling as an inseparable companion to the pieces we produce. I’m really interested in Kelvy’s take on scribing as a social art, and we discuss what conditions are necessary for groups to get creative together. Our conversation touches on hypervigilance as a cultural norm, fostering vulnerable heart space, and how power shapes everything as we ponder what’s possible in using our work to weave more connection. We close the conversation asking each other about how our work can be less meeting, more ritual, so be sure to stick around for that, and enjoy.
The link for Scribing Essentials is here via the Lark Collective.
Thanks for listening. You can learn more about upcoming workshops and all things Somatic Scribing on my website asthecrowfliesdesign.com or by following me on Instagram @crowcamino.
Music for this podcast is from the album Black Shamxn by our labmate, multidisciplinary artist and healing practitioner, Neith Sankofa.
