Georgina SilvaSOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTINGTERRITORY · COMMUNITY · FUTURES
I'm Georgina Silva: sociologist, dancer and choreographer. I design and facilitate socio-environmental processes using participatory and artistic tools.
I support organizations, institutions and teams in bringing stakeholders together, building agreements and shaping projects with community participation.
Let's talk about your projectOver 10 years of field experience
01 / HOW I CAN HELP
Three services you can hire separately or as a single process: understanding the territory, bringing stakeholders together and building lasting capacity in the community.
For projects that need to integrate the social dimension into their environmental decisions and understand the territory where they will work.
Includes: context assessment, identification of dynamics, stakeholders and issues, and recommendations for the work roadmap.
For institutions and teams that need to connect with communities and coordinate different interests over a series of sessions.
Includes: stakeholder mapping, relationship building, design and facilitation of participatory processes, team training and agreement building.
For projects that want the community to keep caring for its territory beyond the life of the project.
Includes: training environmental promoters, strengthening socio-environmental agency and support so these capacities take root in the community.
All services include systematic documentation of lessons learned.
Not sure which one your project needs? Let's start with a free 30-minute strategy session to review your context and define the best path.
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02 / FIELD EXPERIENCE
03 / MY APPROACH
I'm a sociologist, dancer and choreographer. My work connects territory, community and regeneration: listening to the stories of a place, understanding its relationships and designing processes where people can have a real say.
I combine participatory tools with dance, movement and artistic creation. My choreographic training shapes how I design gatherings and how I work with the body, space and listening. These processes are built together with the communities, teams and institutions that take part in them.
Futures anticipation broadens that view: it lets us explore possible changes and guide the decisions we make today.
AN INVITATION TO LOOK
Every territory holds relationships, memories, tensions and capacities that a first impression can miss. My work begins by recognizing them with those who live there, through listening, movement and collective creation.
This stereogram expresses part of my approach: changing how we look reveals another dimension. The ahuehuete and river hidden in the image invite us to pause and explore what we have yet to recognize. In territorial work, that understanding is built by many people and helps guide what we can do together.
Look as if you were seeing something behind the screen. Try to see three dots where there are two, then gently lower your gaze to the pattern. Take a break if it feels uncomfortable; you can also reveal the shape.
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A broad-crowned ahuehuete beside a winding river. The tree and water appear at different depths.
A PROCESS BUILT BY MANY PEOPLE
This photograph captures a moment in a restoration process that brought together government agencies, organizations, community members, students and volunteers.
The place where you now see a circle of people was once an open-air dump. Its restoration brought together the work and contributions of many stakeholders. My involvement is part of that shared story.
Recognizing everyone who made the process possible is part of how I understand work in the territory: every community, team and institution contributes knowledge, decisions and effort.
In my practice I combine a social reading of the territory with tools from dance and choreography. I work with the body, space and collective creation to design ways of gathering and participating.
Artistic experience is part of how I accompany processes alongside other people and organizations, recognizing their knowledge and their capacity to make decisions.
Discover my approachStakeholders who took part in the restorationGovernment · Organizations · Community · Students · Volunteers
LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR PROJECT
Tell me where you work, what challenge your project is facing and what stage it's at. From there, we'll arrange a conversation.
Schedule a conversation by email Message me on WhatsAppgeorginasilvaponce@gmail.com