We Rise: Voice and Survivorship began as a series of workshops led by vocal practitioner Marged Siôn in collaboration with We Rise Hub in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

The project explores the possibilities of Voice as an embodiment practice to support women and non-binary people, who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse and gender-based violence. Through different exercises, we connected with our breath, resonance, body alignment, and imagination, as resources for vocal liberation.

Below are some of the questions that emerged from the project:

- How do we speak from our hearts?
- When is telling our stories healing and transformative?And when is it re-traumatising? And how can we create capacity within ourselves to know the difference?
- How can voicing and sounding together enable us to find strength in collectivity?
- How can working with the voice lead to personal and social transformation?

Following a two year collaborative process, we decided to create a free resource to share our experiences and exercises with other survivors, organisers, and practitioners, who are working towards futures free from intimate, interpersonal and state violence.

We Rise resource image:
We Rise: Voice and Survivorship resource. Commissioned by Serpentine Civic in collaboration with We Rise Domestic Abuse Hub. Photo: Matthew Ritson