The Juicy Space: Unwinnable Games for Trust
Host: Anthea Moys and Gia Thom
We’re living through a crisis of trust — from our personal relationships to our political systems. But what if trust isn’t built through more debate, data, or persuasion? What if it’s something we practice in the body — something more like a muscle we can gently flex together?
Join us to play unwinnable games. In this interactive session, we’ll explore playing as a way of knowing — and unknowing. These games aren’t about competition or performance. Winning is not an option. Instead, they invite us to stay in relation when certainty disappears, to notice what happens when temporary doubt, ambiguity and discomfort enter the room — and to discover how joy can become a bridge across difference rather than an escape from it.
This work draws on decolonial and feminist approaches that value embodied, material and lived knowledge — forms of knowing often marginalised in academic and policy spaces dominated by word-heavy, individualistic traditions.
Rather than talking about trust in the abstract, we’ll temporarily create what we call “trust ecosystems”: short-term environments where you can safely test what trust actually does in the body — stretching it, flexing it, and feeling where it holds.
Expect a participatory experience. You will be invited to move, breathe, draw, close your eyes, listen beyond words, or simply notice what arises. There will be minimal facilitation and plenty of space for collective discovery. Even listening is a form of participation.
Co-facilitated by Dr. Anthea Moys and Gia Thom, this session is for anyone curious about how we might build trust differently — in our communities, organisations and movements. You’ll leave with practical tools for working with uncertainty, cultivating embodied trust, and designing your own “trust ecosystems” rooted in play, relation and shared joy. Anthea and Gia see trust as essential to building a better world. Shaped by their upbringing in apartheid South Africa, they combine feminist decolonial artistic research, embodied facilitation, big tech experience, and work in trustworthy media to create spaces where trust can be practised — not just discussed.
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This venue has a capacity of 40.