Visioning 2026
A collective care workshop to dream, design, and align for the year ahead
In-person: 13:00-17:00, 31st January 2026, Saturday | Silid Acclatan, Taguig City
Online: 09:00-12:00 GMT+8, 21st February 2026, Saturday | via Zoom
About the event
What would it feel like to approach the new year with intention, clarity, and connection?
Daily life in the Philippines is often shaped by non-stop workloads, climate disruptions, political uncertainty, rising prices, and generational trauma. We rebuild after typhoons, adjust to changing costs of living, and navigate loved ones stretched across the globe. When today already feels urgent, imagining tomorrow can feel distant, or even irrelevant.
And yet, pausing to reflect and create is a way of saying no to what no longer works, and an intentional yes to new possibilities.
Visioning 2026 is a community care workshop that uses guided prompts and mixed-media art to support dreaming, reflection, and alignment for the year ahead. It invites us to remember that creativity isn’t just nice to have. It’s how we survive, adapt, and notice that good still exists, even in the midst of tension, ache, and worry.
To create is to believe that something else is possible.
This workshop is an invitation for you to:
Pause
Slow down. Reflect. Listen inward.
Play
Explore without pressure. Create without needing to get it right. Dream with freedom.
Commune
Share stories. Connect. Learn together in community.
Align
Gather insights from playful exploration and carry them into the year ahead.
The Experience
This half-day workshop is designed for a small group of up to 15 participants, allowing for depth, care, and an introvert-friendly pace.
It explores creativity rooted in community as a practice of wellbeing, blending Expressive Arts and Learning Design to help surface what is already alive within you.
You’ll leave with meaningful connections, creative confidence, and practical prompts through two core activities and a Visioning Workbook to supplement the experience:
Dreaming & Visioning
Create a vision board-inspired piece that uses slow exploration and honest listening to help you connect with your inner landscape and what is calling your attention.
Designing Landscapes of Care
Design your own landscapes of care through guided visual and writing prompts that help you translate insight into support as you move your vision forward.
About the community
Imagine this: You’re welcomed into the space and eased in together, whether you’re new or returning. The experience is guided and held by trained facilitators who tune in to the group’s needs. There’s no right or wrong way of creating. You’re free to explore, wonder, and play.
As the day unfolds, you begin to notice your body feels more comfortable and relaxed. A sense of expansiveness emerges from the learnings, the art-making, and the connections you’re building with yourself, others, and the world around you.
This is the kind of community Pilipinas Journal hopes to grow.
What People Say
Ginhawa, ‘yan ang aking nararamdaman. Isang paalala na patuloy tayong bumubuo ng pag-asa para sa isa’t isa. I feel that my faith in humanity is restored.
Visioning 2025 made me experience what it’s like to be held and supported, listened to, and be known. I love every part of it.
Robin Fella, 2025 attendee
I was both excited and anxious leading to the day, but as soon as I arrived, the anxiousness completely went out the window. I felt welcomed despite meeting everyone for the first time. I entered as a stranger and left as a hopeful friend.
Ely Alanonay, 2023 attendee
In a time where I felt very numb, this workshop made me feel something again. You’ve created such a wonderful atmosphere and space. I will keep coming to all these workshops as long as they keep popping up in my feed.
Fran Tan, 2022 attendee
Meet your guides
Z santillan
Lead Facilitator
Z is an educator, ICF-certified coach, and certified Expressive Arts Facilitator with over seven years of experience designing learning spaces at the intersection of climate, development, and wellbeing.
She is the human behind Pilipinas Journal and her work brings people together to pause, create, and imagine what we want to pass on, with a deep attention to how our wellbeing is tied to the planet we call home.
She designed Visioning because she believes that creating and communing are how we keep hope alive and imagine something better.
Janelle Almosara-Capiral
Co-facilitator
Janelle is a Filipino writer, creative, space-holder, and Expressive Arts Facilitator in training under The Arts and Health Institute Philippines (TAHI). She is a communications strategist by craft, and a steadfast believer in the power of stories, how they help us make sense of the world and of ourselves. She is also the chapter founder of Silent Book Club Manila.
Ally Hernandez Publico
Co-facilitator
Ally, founder of AHP Studio, is a Filipino paper artist, writer, and FOAT® (Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts) facilitator. Using sustainable materials (such as recycled paper & cardboard) as her main medium, her stories and artwork draw inspiration from dreams, mental health, and nostalgia.
about the organizer
Pilipinas Journal believes in the power of well-designed and intentional learning experiences. We create learning tools and spaces rooted in care, reflection, and intention, in service of a society that is more maginhawa, mapag-alaga (caring), and makatarungan (socially just).
our venue partner
Silid Acclatan is a community space & library. They have a growing collection of queer fiction, non-fiction, Filipino authored texts, and other material from the margins.
Get your ticket
In person Rates (Half-day)
Saturday – January 31, 2026
Introductory Ticket Rate: Php 1,350
Inclusive of:
- Facilitation and venue fees
- Art materials to be used during the event
- Snacks
- Printed Visioning Workbook
- Pre-workshop Activity
Friend of PJ Rate: Php 1,050 (Save Php 300)
- Available to anyone who has participated in at least two paid Pilipinas Journal events.
Scholarship Rate
- Reserved for 1-2 participants experiencing financial difficulty. Please see the FAQs below for more details.
ONLINE Rates (3 hours)
Saturday – February 21, 2026
Introductory Ticket Rate: Php 800
Inclusive of:
- Facilitation fees over Zoom
- Digital copy of the Visioning Workbook
- Pre-workshop Activity
Friend of PJ Rate: Php 600 (Save Php 200)
- Available to anyone who has participated in at least two paid Pilipinas Journal events.
Scholarship Rate
- Reserved for 1-2 participants experiencing financial difficulty. Please see the FAQs below for more details.
NOTE: To preserve depth, care, and an intimate learning experience, the workshop is limited to 15 participants for the in-person session and online session. Tickets are transferable but non-refundable. If you’re unable to attend, you’re welcome to pass your ticket on to someone else.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Expressive Arts?
Expressive Arts is for anyone navigating what it means to be human. We don’t analyze thoughts or feelings. We give them shape, voice, or rhythm through creative expression.
What if I’m not really an artist?
This session is still open for you. Expressive Arts is for everyone and you don’t need to be an artist. Expressive Arts helps build emotional intelligence, interpersonal trust, and wellbeing. All you need is to show up exactly as you are.
Is this group therapy?
No. A community care workshop is a psychosocial support group. While the experience can be reflective and meaningful, this is not group therapy. If you’re currently experiencing significant difficulties, we encourage you to visit our e-library to access mental health resources and professionals.
I want to join but I currently don’t have funds available. Do you offer scholarships or discounted tickets?
We believe learning should be accessible, and we do our best to keep tickets affordable. At the same time, Pilipinas Journal is a small organization with no outside funding. For this workshop, we’re offering one to two scholarship slots for participants experiencing financial difficulty who would otherwise be unable to attend due to cost.
If this applies to you, you’re welcome to reach out to us at hi.phjournal@gmail.com before January 23, sharing a bit about your situation and why you’d like to join. We encourage you to reach out early, as spots are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Got questions?
Email us at
hi.phjournal@gmail.com