Core to what PeoplesLab offers are transformational reflexive skills and strategies to increase self-knowledge and strengthen interpersonal relations needed to build systemic social change.

PeoplesLab offered 2 workshop sessions at Skirball’s Staff Development Day.

PeoplesLab and C-Crets have been in partnership since 2021. During 2025 PeoplesLab continued collaboration with C-Crets, adding two podcasts on building coalition across racial identity differences. 

Breaking the Ice: Dorit Cypis & the Ethics of Encounter in Minneapolis - George Payne, an independent journalist, recently published this text on Dorit Cypis’ practice of aesthetics and social change.

Acosta Institute invited Dorit Cpyis to join their inaugural Fellowship program in 2025-2026.

L2OVE: Listening to Others Valuing Everyone, 2024, was a proactive framework of listening circles and dialogue developed in collaboration between Dorit Cypis and Jefferey Stewart at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Dorit Cypis was invited to participate on the CEII Advisory Committee for the 2022-year session.

Dorit Cypis discusses how people of whiteness can be better allies to people of color in the workplace on C-Crets Podcast #24.

PeoplesLab designs and hosts an interactive virtual town hall session in collaboration with Monique Thomas of the California Institute of Technology Center for Inclusion & Diversity.

PeoplesLab offers a safe, consistent and personalized framework to continue engagement of ongoing conflict around Whiteness + Antiracism.

Field Workshop:
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA-LA)

In a newly designed 3 session Training and Dialogue series PeoplesLab initiated an investigation of racism and antiracism guiding a critical inquiry of whiteness - Past, Present + Future

A performance, video and Zoom event in 3 Acts exploring how histories, seemingly external to us, actually live in our bodies, blinding us to our self and to one another.

PeoplesLab transforms COVID Quarantine into an opportunity for self-care and to focus within.

Introducing the Tools of Engagement: transforming conflict into possibility - an overview of reflexive, somatic and procedural skills to build self-knowledge, bias awareness, and conflict engagement.

In 2019, PeoplesLab worked with Community Corporation of Santa Monica over 6 months to build trust, define a Vision and Mission, recognize skills, strengths and challenges, initiate a structure to develop action plans, and build capacity for engaging the diverse residents living in the affordable housing units managed by CCSM.

From 2014 to 2018, PeoplesLab participated as a Coach to Los Angeles County public school districts, to provide all students with access to the arts as part of the core K-12 curriculum.

PeoplesLab assisted The Future of Policing as a facilitator of dialogue.