A Decolonial Creative Reset Workshop: I AM EXACTLY WHERE I AM MEANT TO BE
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A Decolonial Creative Reset Workshop: I AM EXACTLY WHERE I AM MEANT TO BE

By Area Noir / Naomi Baudelaire - Smith

Overview

For women who have experienced repeated cycles of sadness, disappointment, and feeling like they’re “behind.”

I AM EXACTLY WHERE I AM MEANT TO BE: THE CREATIVE -DECOLONIAL RESET FOR WOMEN TO RELEASE SHAME, PRESSURE AND COMPARISON BEFORE 2026


This workshop is for women who have experienced repeated cycles of sadness, disappointment, and feeling like they’re “behind.”


It is rooted in:


Neuroplasticity: reshaping the brain’s internal narratives


Creative ritual: collage, drawing, intention-making


Somatic grounding: calming the body and reducing overwhelm


Ancestral re-authoring: reconnecting to a deeper internal timeline Decolonising self-concept: releasing societal pressures that were never yours


Please Note The link to purchase tickets is here : https://areanoir.spaces.nexudus.com/en/events/view/1415624084/a-decolonial-creative-reset-workshop " You need to register to the Area Noir website (for free) to access tickets!


What Participants will do:


1. Name & Externalise the Old Stories


We will bring forward the narratives that created pressure, fear, comparison, or shame in 2025 and previous years.


Using collage and drawing, we will externalise these stories, moving them out of the body and onto paper, where they lose emotional power.


This is where neuroplastic change begins:

interrupting old neural pathways.


2. Rewrite the Self-Concept


Next, we begin creating new neural pathways through:


• future-self scripting

• intentional storytelling

• language reframing


Together, we will design a new internal story — one aligned with the energy needed for 2026: clarity, confidence, creativity, and emotional readiness.


Outcome: By the end of the workshop, participants leave with increased clarity, self worth and confidence about who they are and where they can go due to a healthier internal narratives.


Hosted by Naomi Baudelaire - Smith:

Naomi is a 33-year-transformative creative consultant and former fashion and global black studies librarian whose uses her expertise in equality, diversity and inclusion, creative education, and Indigenous wellness and knowledge to support women with empowerment, healing, freedom, self-discovery, possibility, ambition, integrity, adventure and growth. She has worked with institutions such as the British Library and the Ministry of Culture (UAE), and has delivered keynote presentations for the University of Cambridge as well as universities across South Africa and the United States.


Please Note The link to purchase tickets is here : https://areanoir.spaces.nexudus.com/en/events/view/1415624084/a-decolonial-creative-reset-workshop " You need to register to the Area Noir website (for free) to access tickets!


Category: Community, Other

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Highlights

  • 2 hours
  • ages 18+
  • In person
  • Doors at 11:00

Location

Area Noir

Bayford Street

London E8 3SE United Kingdom

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Area Noir / Naomi Baudelaire - Smith

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Dec 30 · 11:11 GMT