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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Transforming communities one conversation at a time.
Community Dinner Series and Financial Workshops coming in 2024!
PAST WORKSHOPS
At Narratives Unbound, we are committed to providing financial education to communities that need it most. Our projects are designed to empower individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed financial decisions. Explore our past events and learn more about how we make a difference.




The Power of Money Series: Decolonizing our Relationship with Money
Virtual Financial Education Workshop Series
2021- 2023
In this 3-part workshops series, participants packed the influences of inter- generational racial trauma by understanding the history of money and the growing racial wealth gap, how our individual trauma and experiences re-enforce colonial practices and how we can heal and decolonize our relationship with money to create a world where we can all thrive.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell
Facilitated for the following Organizations









An intimate dialogue for Women of Color to come together and talk about their relationship with money.
In this virtual workshop discover the four core money beliefs that exist and how you can positively address them on your financial journey.
The purpose of this workshop is for you:
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To examine your own financial attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors
To identify one to three money affirmations that will help you re-write your money scripts
Facilitated by Rosa J. Colin Founder & CEO of Mujeres Building Abundance
May & November 2021- 2023
This workshop on the Racial Wealth Gap combines history, individual reflection and group discussion to provide participants with a foundation of the origins of America’s income and racial wealth gap. Participants engage with historical documents to dispel the popular ‘bootstrap’ narrative and dig deeper into the institutional and political realities of racism that has allowed for the continuous divestment in Black & Indigenous communities.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell - TOM Faculty



United Way and Trauma of Money
Virtual Trauma informed practices workshop for financial coaches in Eastern MA
2021
In this 2-part workshops series, participants navigated through the TOM frameworks that brings together the psychology of trauma and scarcity to help coaches better understand their relationship with money.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell and founder of Trauma of Money (TOM) Chantel Chapman


Want a Thriving Business? Focus on Finances
Virtual Financial Education Workshop
April 3rd 2021
This online community workshop brought together diverse business owners to learn more about the various functions of financial records. Participants learned the importance of financial statements, the benefits of using cloud-based accounting software and participated in a Quickbooks Online demonstration.
Facilitated by Jasmine Simpson of Good Steward Financial Company, LLC
4-PART SERIES:
OWNING YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE
Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) Alum Summer Program
July 2020 - September 2020, Seattle, Washington
This 4-part financial education series empowered participants to explore their beliefs, understandings and relationships with money. Through these workshops, participants bridged the gaps between financial values and tangible goals, and re-imagined how we utilize resources to seed into ourselves and our communities.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell and Niela Maryam Hampton



OWNING YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE: MONEY, CREDIT & BUDGETING
Zero Waste Washington, Summer Youth Internship Program
July 2020, Seattle, Washington
This virtual financial education workshop allowed participants to apply hands-on activities to the history of money, building personal credit and the power of budgeting. Participants built their financial literacy through interactive lessons about credit, debt and savings.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell
OWNING YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE
2019 Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) Alum Retreat
July 2019, Seattle, Washington
This financial literacy workshop presented participants with a basic overview of credit, debt and savings to help them begin to understand the importance of financial literacy and the many tools that are available to them to begin the road to financial success. Through shared stories and reviewing basic concepts, workshop participants engaged in conversations and activities around credit, optimizing spending, debt and savings strategies.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell

LET’S TALK! RACE AND CLASS THROUGH
HIP-HOP AND POETRY
Cultural Studies Capstone Workshop
April 2015, Seattle, Washington
The workshop revealed that bringing people together from different backgrounds and walks of life, is not only possible, but proved that intergenerational work is challenging, enriching and can foster spaces of dialogue rich in new perspectives and ways of knowing.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell


DISCUSSIONS ON DIVERSITY: UNDERSTANDING AND RE-DEFINING RACE AND RACISM
Diversity-Training Workshop at UCIC Elementary School
January 2016, Bothell, Washington
This workshop provided elementary school teachers with the tools to understand how race and racism have manifested in the United States, as well as how to begin navigating the effects it has in our work and personal lives.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell

CULTURAL INCEPTION: A JOURNEY THROUGH HIP-HOP, POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD
Power, Justice & Freedom through Education Summit
January 2015, Seattle, Washington
This workshop was designed to provide a way for youth to discuss their knowledge and relationship to issues of race. Participants engaged with selections of hip-hop and poetry to understand these art forms as ways to tell stories, connect their individual and collective experiences, and reflect on current issues in society.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell
CHALLENGING THE LENS OF HOMELESSNESS THROUGH POETRY
March – May 2014, Kirkland, Washington
This workshop was in partnership with Friends of Youth, a local organization in Washington State, dedicated to providing homeless youth and their families a broad range of services to improve their stability and self-sufficiency.
Facilitated by Nafasi Ferrell
