Confianza Collective is a bilingual (English-Spanish) storywork studio offering coaching and consulting services for community-engaged organizations, businesses, and research teams. We help clients advance their mission, increase visibility, and attract funding through impactful storytelling.

Confianza is a Spanish word that can be translated to trust and/or confidence in English. We prioritize confianza in our work and we are committed to supporting storytellers with building confidence and creating trust for their work with communities.

FAQs

  • Storywork is any work that focuses on stories. We help people get their stories written down through interviews, one-on-one coaching, and writing workshops.

  • Confianza is a Spanish word that can be translated to trust and/or confidence in English. It is something that is important to cultivate in both community health and storytelling. The semillas (seeds) for Confianza Collective were first planted with the Cuentos de Confianza project, which features stories written by promotores de salud about their lived experiences and community work on the path toward reproductive justice.

  • We don’t currently have a brick and mortar studio, although we’d love to one day have that. We work primarily through Zoom, email, and phone, and can meet with clients in person around the greater Milwaukee area. Having a virtual studio allows us to easily serve clients outside of Wisconsin, too.