About the Workshop
Word Travels is designed to provide a creative, engaging and entry-level exploration of safe sharing and storytelling from a Lived Experience, trauma-informed lens.
It guides participants through the history of storytelling as a method of advocacy and explores how to do this whilst respecting one's own and other's boundaries and taking 'conscious care'.
Participants will leave with:
Ability to translate Lived Experience into Expertise that can be used in future advocacy
A zine (or meaningful draft) that belongs to them, that can be shared publicly through Integrity Initiative and Maesons Soapbox.
Whilst we are awaiting the results of several grant applications, we are busy creating and refining (...and soon to be piloting) the workshop model.
Past Workshop Deliveries
PILOT - 18th Jan 2026
On Sunday the 18th of January 2026, we held the inaugural Word Travels workshop with a team of 8 intersectional advocates across Boorloo. Thank you to Neami National and their Right By You Ambassadors for bringing such wonderful insight and reflection into the space and your incredible zines!
Upcoming Workshops
Word Travels at Walyalup Civic Centre
Word Travels Albany
Word Travels TOUR
Word Travels is a series of workshops developed with a regional audience in mind which utilises creativity and zine-making as a form of expression, advocacy, storytelling and community empowerment.
Whether you are regional or metropolitan-based, we would love to collaborate!
We are thrilled to be offering:
Pilot workshops in Perth throughout January to to March of 2026.
Travelling workshops to you in May of 2026. Our proposed locations include (but are not limited to): Geraldton (Mid West), Carnarvon (Gascoyne), Exmouth (Gascoyne), Onslow (Pilbara), Mirabooka (Metropolitan), Pinjarra (Peel region), Bunbury (South West), Albany (Great Southern), Busselton (South West). NOTE: if you are not located in one of these regions but are interested in holding or engaging in a workshop, we would still love to chat.
Ongoing workshops after our travelling tour upon request.
The zines created through these workshops will travel far beyond the spaces they are created. True to the project name, the creations will continue their journey around Western Australia and more broadly through Maeson’s zine library and through Integrity Initiative’s Caring With Integrity, community events, and other work.
Testimonials
...by the way, we made a zine
That's right! We made a zine about out zine-making workshop!