Collective Imagination Seed Swap: Trickstering in the Borderlands

​This session invites participants into a mythic diagnosis of the hero and the trickster, while disrupting the monomyth. We enter through 'nepantla', the in-between where old stories lose their grip and new ones haven't yet found their form. Using the Mythic Plurality Project framework, we'll name how the hero myth functions as an operating system and sit honestly with how the heroic industrial complex sorts the world into the saved and the sacrificed. From there, we turn to the trickster meeting two of the borderlands' own, Coyote and Lechuza. Both function beyond any cautionary tales and moreso as compasses for threshold intelligence. Through collective imagination exercises, participants will leave with diagnostic questions to carry into their own contexts and a felt sense of what becomes possible when we stop managing the trickster and start learning to receive what it brings.

Featuring:
Naya Diaz is a Mexican American Tejana navigating the borderlands of imagination. As a recovering anthropologist and re-mythologist in the making, she tends to the Mythic Plurality Project, where she practices remythologizing. MPP is where we name root wounds, grieving what's been lost, and reweaving narratives toward ones that sustain life. The work draws from complexity theory, ecology, and myth.
She comes to this work swimming in the same waters as the rest of us; inside an unraveling and rupture. Her work is guided by rematriation and re-indigenization thinking, while co-etching the emergent unknowns for what comes next.

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