What ingredients make a community-engaged facilitator?
Project Title
The Facilitator’s Recipe
Melika Saeeda with the Pedagogies of Community Engagement Collective
Authors
The Facilitator’s Recipe is a cellphilm that frames facilitation as the act of preparing and serving a meal. Just as a recipe is shaped by its ingredients, a facilitator’s practice is shaped by their identity, lived experiences, traditions, privileges, and encounters with oppression.
The film explores how these “ingredients” interact: privilege as sweetness, oppression as bitter herbs, traditions as spices, and self-awareness as a mirror. Through the metaphor of cooking and serving, facilitation is shown as a social, relational, and political practice, sometimes nourishing, sometimes challenging, but always transformative.
Description
I created this cellphilm in a workshop. I drew on team brainstorming, and since I’m a visual artist, I turned the idea into a recipe and then into a cellphilm.