NUWAYZE DESIGN STUDY Independent concept · For review
BasSheva MañjonARTIST · SCHOLAR · SYSTEMS WEAVER

AN INVITATION TO SHARED PRACTICE

We remember.
We reimagine.

Gathering through art, story, shared inquiry, and collective possibility.

We Remember

Creating spaces where individuals and communities reconnect with ancestral wisdom, cultural memory, embodied knowing, and collective imagination.

We Reimagine

Accompanying organizations, educational institutions, foundations, artists, and communities as they cultivate living ecosystems rooted in relationship, shared stewardship, creativity, and liberatory practice.

We Gather

Convening immersive learning experiences, dialogues, retreats, artist residencies, circles, and participatory inquiries that invite deep reflection, creative exploration, and transformative connection.

We Create

Collaborating through public scholarship, artistic practice, exhibitions, participatory research, writing, storytelling, oral history, and interdisciplinary inquiry.

We Cultivate

Nurturing long-term communities of learning, practice, and belonging through mentorship, collaborative inquiry, sacred feminine practice, and the evolving vision of the Diasporic Women's Commons.

AN EMERGING VISION

The Diasporic Women’s Commons

Drawing upon Indigenous and diasporic feminine wisdom traditions, artistic practice, scholarship, cooperative economics, and collective healing, the Commons seeks to cultivate spaces where women reconnect with ancestral knowledge.

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An Invitation to Shared Practice

We Remember

Creating spaces where individuals and communities reconnect with ancestral wisdom, cultural memory, embodied knowing, and collective imagination.

We Reimagine

Accompanying organizations, educational institutions, foundations, artists, and communities as they cultivate living ecosystems rooted in relationship, shared stewardship, creativity, and liberatory practice.

We Gather

Convening immersive learning experiences, dialogues, retreats, artist residencies, circles, and participatory inquiries that invite deep reflection, creative exploration, and transformative connection.

We Create

Collaborating through public scholarship, artistic practice, exhibitions, participatory research, writing, storytelling, oral history, and interdisciplinary inquiry.

We Cultivate

Nurturing long-term communities of learning, practice, and belonging through mentorship, collaborative inquiry, sacred feminine practice, and the evolving vision of the Diasporic Women's Commons.

Let's begin a conversation

If this work resonates with you or your community, I welcome the opportunity to imagine, learn, and create together.

basshevamanjon@gmail.com

This work is offered through relationship, conversation, and mutual discernment. Each engagement is shaped by the people, community, organization, or inquiry at the center of the work.

I do not approach this work as a traditional consultant; I enter as a thought partner, cultural worker, systems weaver, artist, and facilitator of collective remembering. Together, we create conditions for deeper listening, honest reflection, creative imagination, and meaningful transformation.

Because each invitation is different, pricing is developed in conversation and reflects the scope, scale, preparation, facilitation, travel, creative design, and ongoing accompaniment required.

Exchange & Investment

Initial ConversationComplimentary 30-minute conversation to explore alignment, needs, and possibilities.

Reflection & Wayfinding SessionFor individuals, artists, leaders, or small teams seeking clarity around a transition, project, question, or emerging body of work.

Shared Practice GatheringA custom-designed circle, dialogue, workshop, or facilitated experience for teams, communities, or organizations.

Immersive Retreat or Learning ExperienceA half-day, full-day, or multi-day gathering designed around reflection, transformation, creativity, culture, leadership, healing, or collective visioning.

Organizational Ecology PartnershipLonger-term accompaniment for organizations, institutions, foundations, or collectives navigating transition, culture change, shared governance, strategic imagination, or community-rooted transformation.

Speaking, Public Scholarship & Artist TalksKeynotes, lectures, moderated conversations, public programs, and gatherings connected to art, ancestry, diaspora, women’s wisdom, organizational ecology, and transformative learning.

A Note on Reciprocity

I am committed to abundance without extraction.

For this reason, I maintain a flexible pricing practice that accommodates institutions with the resources to invest fully, while also creating pathways for artists, women, grassroots communities, and smaller organizations when alignment is strong.

When appropriate, I consider sliding-scale agreements, community-supported rates, honoraria, shared revenue models, and reciprocal exchange. The intention is creating the right relationship.

If this work resonates with you or your community, I welcome a conversation about what wants to be remembered, reimagined, gathered, created, or cultivated.

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