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Exploring Felt Futures¹ Through Our Creative Lineage, Memories, and Sensuous Storytelling
A Workshop with Denise Shanté Brown
What if our lineages as creative, intuitive beings contain memories that can illuminate our deepest longings? And what if we feel into those memories, allowing our bodies to guide us toward the futures we want to live inside?
Exploring felt futures¹ as the breathing entity and liberatory lifeforce within us, we'll gather to practice feeling the presence of what—and who—keeps us connected to our creativity. Our sensorial memory work and sensuous storytelling will carry us across time and space. Together, we'll notice the creative lineages and memories tingling up and down our spines. Together, we'll share stories that show us how everything we've felt can (re)design our future ways of being, relating, and making.
To support the experience, participants may want to be in a comfortable environment where sensing and sharing can transpire. Having a notebook or something to capture what emerges may also be desired.
¹ “felt futures” is an embodied, experimental concept that Denise Shanté has named, published about in her book collection may we dream and design felt futures (Thick Press, May 2025), and continues to practice alongside fellow dreamers and designers. z
About Your Facilitator: Denise Shanté Brown
Denise Shanté Brown (she/her) is a multidimensional designer, creative co-conspirator, and intuitive writer. Through a creative social practice rooted in multimodality and sensorial knowledge, Denise Shanté cultivates embodied experiments where (dis)abled storytellers and worldmakers can collectively dream, design, write, and feel the futures we long for and love.
She’s the author and designer of the book collection, may we dream and design felt futures: where our creative being and practice can feel the sensations of care, intimacy, and liberation (Thick Press 2025) and guide for the experiments in felt futures four-month literary immersion. You can wander within her worlds at deniseshantebrown.comand enter her storytelling space on feelingourfutures.substack.com.
A Workshop with Denise Shanté Brown
What if our lineages as creative, intuitive beings contain memories that can illuminate our deepest longings? And what if we feel into those memories, allowing our bodies to guide us toward the futures we want to live inside?
Exploring felt futures¹ as the breathing entity and liberatory lifeforce within us, we'll gather to practice feeling the presence of what—and who—keeps us connected to our creativity. Our sensorial memory work and sensuous storytelling will carry us across time and space. Together, we'll notice the creative lineages and memories tingling up and down our spines. Together, we'll share stories that show us how everything we've felt can (re)design our future ways of being, relating, and making.
To support the experience, participants may want to be in a comfortable environment where sensing and sharing can transpire. Having a notebook or something to capture what emerges may also be desired.
¹ “felt futures” is an embodied, experimental concept that Denise Shanté has named, published about in her book collection may we dream and design felt futures (Thick Press, May 2025), and continues to practice alongside fellow dreamers and designers. z
About Your Facilitator: Denise Shanté Brown
Denise Shanté Brown (she/her) is a multidimensional designer, creative co-conspirator, and intuitive writer. Through a creative social practice rooted in multimodality and sensorial knowledge, Denise Shanté cultivates embodied experiments where (dis)abled storytellers and worldmakers can collectively dream, design, write, and feel the futures we long for and love.
She’s the author and designer of the book collection, may we dream and design felt futures: where our creative being and practice can feel the sensations of care, intimacy, and liberation (Thick Press 2025) and guide for the experiments in felt futures four-month literary immersion. You can wander within her worlds at deniseshantebrown.comand enter her storytelling space on feelingourfutures.substack.com.