OUR SERVICES
FOR INDIVIDUALS
For individuals seeking creative ways to understand their life experiences more deeply, our workshops provide performance strategies that help you identify, explore, and transform your interpersonal relationships. We help you identify the points of intersection between your individual story and the larger collective and help you creatively engage the patterns, conflicts, and themes that appear. We do so through a series of activities that help you to explore, examine, and “rehearse” new possibilities for meaningful social interactions.
FOR COMMUNITIES
For community organizations invested in creating a more inclusive, representational, and supportive cultural climate both within their organization and beyond, Oleear partners with you to provide three different types of community-focused workshops: The first provides tools to empower communities to dismantle and creatively reconstruct their relationship to social systems. Our second set of workshops train organizations to use performance to engage in dialogue with community members, funders, policymakers, and other cultural institutions. The third facilitates dialogue within the organization in order to strengthen interpersonal interactions and resolve communication conflicts.
FOR BUSINESSES
The modern workplace can be isolating, fast-paced, and stressful, which leads to communication breakdowns. Yet it is often the place, and the people with whom, we spend the most time. Through our three-step method we build bridges between the communication gaps that act as barriers to innovation and team-building. The first step utilizes personal narrative and oral history to identify the interpersonal and intercultural frictions that emerge in the workplace. The second step uses storytelling to create dialogue that allows team members to witness what others have to say, opening space for building empathy and connection. Finally, we facilitate activities that allow people from differing backgrounds to creatively engage communication barriers from multiple perspectives, imagine solutions, and construct new possibilities.
OUR IMPACT
Thanks so much, Milene and Elisa for a really valuable and powerful workshop. How we and others define ourselves can be unspoken and assumed for years without checking back in to see if it's still valid or even helpful anymore. You helped me reflect on this and throw away some out of date stuff from my head and heart! (…)
Sarah Redman
Eurostar Training Manager / London, UK
As an old male who grew up in a different time and environment, it is hard to cope with some of today’s cultural movements related to gender differences and perceptions. We feel that our ethical values of respect and attention to women fall into a conflict about right and wrong without an easy solution and real accommodation. (…)
Mestre Acordeon
Founder of United Capoeira Association / California
I had the opportunity to participate in a workshop with Oleear and share some activities with a warm group of women. It was an amazing and enriching experience, (…)
Christiane Le Martelot
Teacher / France
We enlisted Oleear’s professional guidance to tackle the issue of gender inequality in the African-Brazilian martial and cultural art of Capoeira. (…)
Suellen Einarsen
United Capoeira Association / California
About Us
Oleear is a consulting organization that combines communication strategies, performance and expressive arts techniques to promote systemic changes facilitating dialogue around issues of gender, race, interpersonal relationships, intercultural dynamics & community engagement.
Our Location
San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA