About Mazorca
About mazorca
Co-founded by Chelsea Viteri and Zia Kandler, we have collectively facilitated over 200 workshops in universities and organizations over the past decade. Our approach centers on resilient and collaborative partnerships with NGOs, human rights organizations, universities, community-based initiatives, and social movements.We employ creative, proactive, and participatory methodologies tailored to each organization's unique needs and objectives. Mazorca is committed to de-colonial practices to cultivate strategic, realistic, and collective alternatives.
Mission
We seek to generate spaces of co-creative, imaginative transformation that cultivates liberation and healing one workshop and interaction at a time.
Learn more about the values that guide our work
Calling on la Minga
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Change is a collective matter. Our liberation and healing are bound to each other’s. Necesitamos muchas manos! We aim to build accountable and reciprocal relationships that are invested and committed to each other’s well-being.
Change is Hospicing and Midwifing
The world as we know it is dying as a new world is being birthed. We seek to tend to this transition with tenderness, accountability, courage and care
Embracing Pluriversality
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We invite multiple ways of knowing and being to the table. Our stories, dreams, and bodies are our teachers and key contributors to our processes.
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Embracing the Worthy
Life, creation, and transformation are beautifully messy. We divest from ideas of perfectionism and honor. We love and hold the disorder and discomfort that emerges from change and growth
Gratitude to Lineages of Resistance
We are part of a network of past, present, and future initiatives that dare to reimage our world. We acknowledge and draw from the many learning and unlearning traditions in social movements across time and space.
Commitment to Learning and Unlearning
Unlearning oppression is a constant invitation to rethink, reimagine and reconfigure our processes to ignite alternatives.
* Minga is a term that refers to a day of collective work. It is an Andean practice grounded in collective well-being, reciprocity, and celebration.