Firestart Chat with Mathura Temwa Mahendren (IG: @mathura.mahendren), a teacher of love. Among many of her gifts is her ability to speak multiple love languages. Whether creating a relationship model canvas to designing and facilitating as a wedding celebrant, Mathura applies her growing love fluency in her work.

Mathura "Temwa" Mahendren is a storyteller by nature, and a design researcher by nurture. Her practice is rooted in a commitment to designing and sharing tools, frameworks, and brave spaces that can hold individuals, groups, and relationships through difference, discomfort, grief, change, and ultimately, growth. She is also intimately aware of the ways in which our ability to move through these experiences is intertwined with how and how deeply we were taught to love. To that end, love is both the method and the madness that underpins all of her bodies of work.

Mathura is the author of the recently launched toolkit and audiobook, "Dismantling the Master's Tools: A Somatic Approach to Interrogating White Supremacy"

For more info on her work, please visit:

https://www.dismantlingthemasterstools.com
https://www.metemwaphasis.com/
https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/2776/1/Mahendren_Mathura_2019_MDes_SFI_MRP.pdf

Photographer: Darius Bashar (https://www.dariusbashar.com/)
Video Editor: Ciarán Breen (IG @clubciaran)