Itziar Urquiola Guerrero    Colectivo de Prácticas Narrativas

I am driven to find ways in which our territory reveals unique aspects of experience that we had not previously seen, named, or reflected upon—cracks through which we can shift directions and experience from which we can build.

I graduated in anthropology in 2005, and have continued my training in Narrative Practices from 2013 to the present. This started with the International Diploma Program offered by the Narrative Practices Collective, followed by  the Master’s Degree in Narrative Practices in Education and Community Work (Colectivo de Prácticas Narrativas UCIRed/CESDER), as well as workshops, seminars, several training opportunities, and supervision.

I have been a member of the Colectivo de Prácticas Narrativas since 2018, facilitating and supporting sessions and modules for the Collective’s Diploma and Master’s programs. I coordinated the specialization in Narrative Practices in Educational Contexts with the Universidad del Medio Ambiente (UMA) between 2020 and 2022.

I currently coordinate the Collective’s Seminar on Narrative Practices and Community. I worked as a professor, researcher, as well as coordinator of educational, communitu, and productive projects for over 10 years at Philosophy faculty at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ).

I also support various processes of community work, group and individual conversion in projects, individual and group therapy. I  always inspire myself from my work with children, adolescents, and young adults. I enjoy playing and imagining the possible ways to build relationships so that we can create together.

I am interested in conversation and consultation with people. I see it as a context to contribute creating meanings about people’s own experience, placing care an attention at the center of the process, exploring from their own perspective, where each individual has the opportunity to draw on their own experience to access the knowledge they need and decide on a course of action.

I am interested in nurturing oral tradition, memory, and imagination, as well as finding ways for documentation to serve and enhance people’s processes.