In this interactive workshop, Dessa Quesada Palm, Artistic Director of Youth Advocates Through Theater Arts (YATTA) in Dumaguete City, Philippines, invites participants into the heart of the organisation’s mission, vision, and working practice. Drawing on YATTA’s long-standing commitment to youth empowerment, social justice, and community-based theatre, the session offers insight into how artistic processes can create space for agency, dialogue, and transformation.
As a master facilitator, Dessa goes beyond sharing theory or case studies. Through hands-on exercises, reflective tasks, and collective activities, participants experience first-hand the power of facilitation as an artistic and relational practice. The workshop becomes a lived exploration of how imagination, trust, and connection can be actively cultivated within groups.
Warm, generous, and deeply reflective, this session offers both inspiration and practical tools, while creating space for participants to reconnect with facilitation as a practice of care, presence, and possibility.
Dessa Quesada Palm | Workshop | Philippines