Feel the joy of co-transforming alongside a butterfly…without the puppets, from the comfort of your home and at your own pace!
The Butterfly Affect Care Deck are imaginative prompts to ignite our imaginations and inspire our bodies to rest, move, and emerge transformed.
Grounded in the science of a butterfly’s metamorphosis, this Care Deck offers a creative, accessible, nature-based, ecofeminist approach to systems of care and activism.
Click on a card to see more of that stage!
Download your FREE Butterfly Affect Care Deck to use at home, in your organizations, schools, and with your communities! Enjoy this gift to develop systems of care through embodied strategies that are accessible for all ages, abilities, and genders.
In the Spring 2024 semester, the “Women in Theatre” class at Florida State University (taught by Dr. Sarah Fahmy) and the “Performing Voices of Women” class at the University of Colorado Boulder (taught by Dr. Beth Osnes) collaborated to envision The Butterfly Affect Care Deck. Both classes had a mix of undergraduate and graduate students in a range of fields from theatre to environmental sciences. After experiencing the immersive performance, the students co-created easy to follow creative prompts to correspond to each stage of metamorphosis. Each card includes instructions and a video to follow along the movements.
The Butterfly Affect Care Deck was launched at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 68) NGO Parallel Events Convening, in March 2024.
PhD Students: Ryan Hope Travis, Evelyn D. Tyler
Undergraduate Students: Sydney Gooden, Sarah Grace Hutchinson, Ryan Moore, Ethan Russell, Isabella Pila, Jennifer Rosner, Reed Worrell
From Florida State University
Students Involved in the creation of this deck
From University of Colorado Boulder
PhD Students: Iván-Daniel Espinosa, Kasra Mirfattahi
Undergraduate Students: Vianney Aguilar*, Kara Hartley, Rebekah Jeffrey*, Mathilde Lebouc, Emma Quirk, Crystal Sain, Brie Sutton, Livi Sweeterman, Sarah Zimah
*Students in Theatre Bachelors/Masters Program