Alfonso Díaz
Alfonso Díaz is the founder of the Colectivo de Prácticas Narrativas. He works as a therapist, teacher and community worker.
In his community work Alfonso has collaboratively developed projects to promote autonomy, land and water defense, as well as projects to respond to gender and State violence.
As a teacher he created and coordinates the International Diploma in Narrative Practice, the Masters in Narrative Practice in Community Work and Education, the Masters in Narrative Therapy, and in collaboration with Itziar Urquiola the Masters in Narrative therapy and Communality.
Alfonso coordinates the therapy team for the Colectivo de Prácticas Narrativas where marginalized communities can have therapeutic conversations pro bono. This team explores how therapeutic conversations can contribute to organizing that contributes to challenging the structures that maintain structural inequality.
He has worked with different organizations like National Geographic Society, the MoMa in New York, the Campamento Audiovisual Itinerante in Oaxaca and Otrxs Dreamers en Acción, among others.
He has also participated in artistic Residencies like el Canto de la Yerba Bruja in Acatitlán, Mexico and the performance residency Rencontre in the Island of Base-Terre in Guadeloupe.
He finds ways to weave what he learns from cooking, fermentation, taking care of chickens and walking in the forest where he lives into his work.