Our Narratives

Our Narratives is a flexible, fully customizable storytelling workshop program that meets communities where they are — in classrooms, recovery centers, correctional facilities, community organizations, and beyond. Through visual art, writing, music, and performance, facilitators Heidi Jeub and Terrell X'avion guide participants of all backgrounds through the process of reclaiming and sharing their own stories. At a time when division runs deep and healing feels urgent, artists are not a luxury — they are exactly what communities need.

Tell Your Story Before Someone Else Tells It For You

For too long, the stories of marginalized communities, struggling individuals, and unheard voices have been told by someone else — filtered, flattened, and stripped of their truth. Our Narratives exists to change that.

This is a storytelling program built for the places and people that need it most: alternative learning centers where students have been written off by traditional systems, communities navigating addiction, incarceration, grief, or displacement, artists who have lost the thread of why they create, and organizations ready to invest in the creative lives of the people they serve.

We believe that when people reclaim their own stories, something shifts. Healing becomes possible. Connection deepens. Purpose returns.

What Happens in a Workshop

Our Narratives workshops are immersive, flexible, and built around the people in the room. Through a combination of visual art, writing, music, performance, and honest conversation, participants are guided through the process of identifying, shaping, and sharing their own stories — often for the first time.

There is no required experience. There is no wrong answer. What's required is a willingness to show up, dig in, and trust the process.

Each workshop is customized to your community's specific needs, challenges, and goals. Whether you're working with at-risk youth, adults in recovery, incarcerated individuals, or emerging artists searching for direction, Our Narratives meets you where you are.

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Who This Is For

Alternative Learning Centers & Schools — Students who haven't found their footing in traditional educational environments often thrive when given creative tools and a genuine invitation to be heard. Our Narratives gives them both.

Communities Facing Specific Challenges — Social injustice, incarceration, grief, trauma, displacement. These experiences don't disqualify someone from having something powerful to say — they often mean they have the most important stories of all. This program creates the space to say them.

Artists Seeking Purpose — If you've been creating but can't remember why, or if your work has started to feel disconnected from the things that matter to you, Our Narratives is a chance to come back to yourself. Working alongside community members in need has a way of returning artists to the reason they started.

Nonprofits & Community Organizations — If your mission involves the wellbeing, empowerment, or development of the people you serve, Our Narratives is a program worth adding to your toolkit. We work with you to design a workshop series that aligns with your goals and fits your community.

Facilitator’s Approach:

Heidi Jeub and Terrell X’avion boast a partnership that merges the vast artistic resources and experiences they’ve gathered separately from their respective backgrounds and accumulated knowledge. The result is a comfortable foundation for group self-reflection, exploration of new creative tools, and bonding through the shared experience of storytelling. Our Narratives’ employment of writing, visual art, breakout sessions and performance, empowers participants to reclaim their own stories, as they showcase the rewards produced from doing the difficult work.

  • Our Narratives Community Agreement

    This agreement exists to protect everyone in the room — including you. By participating in an Our Narratives workshop, you are agreeing to honor these principles for yourself and for every person who shows up alongside you.

    We Lead With Respect

    Every person in this space carries a life, a history, and a perspective that is entirely their own. You don't have to agree with someone to respect them. You don't have to understand someone's experience to honor it. What happens in this room requires that we treat each other — and each other's stories — with dignity, full stop.

    What's Said Here, Stays Here

    The stories shared in this space are personal. They are not yours to carry out of the room, post about, screenshot, or repeat — not even with names removed. Confidentiality is not a suggestion. It is the foundation that makes honest storytelling possible. If someone trusted this room with something real, that trust ends at the door.

    We Make Space, We Don't Take Space

    This is a shared experience. Some people will have a lot to say. Some people will need time to find their words. Both are valid. We ask that you stay aware of how much space you're occupying — in conversation, in debate, and in response to others — and leave room for the voices that haven't spoken yet.

    Politics Are Welcome. Attacks Are Not.

    We do not shy away from difficult conversations — race, power, injustice, identity, politics. These are often the most important conversations to have, and this is a space built to hold them. What we will not hold is personal attacks, dismissiveness, or language designed to shut someone down rather than open a conversation up. Challenge ideas. Question systems. But do not come for the person.

    Your Story Is Yours. Share Only What You Choose.

    Nobody in this space will pressure you to disclose more than you are ready to share. Participation looks different for everyone, and you are always in control of how much of yourself you bring into the room. That said, if something comes up for you during a session — emotionally, physically, or otherwise — please know that our facilitators are here and you can step out, pause, or signal for support at any time.

    Trauma Is Treated With Care

    Difficult experiences may surface in this work. That is not something to avoid — it is often where the most powerful stories live. Our facilitators are trained to hold space for hard material, and we will never push anyone past their own limits. If a story shared by a participant requires additional support beyond what this program can provide, we will help connect that person with the appropriate resources. We do not leave people without a next step.

    Facilitators Are Not Exempt

    Heidi and Terrell hold themselves to every principle in this agreement. We are not above the room — we are in it with you. If we get something wrong, we want to know. This space works because everyone, including its leaders, stays accountable.

    One Final Thing

    You belong here. Whatever brought you to this workshop — curiosity, requirement, desperation, or hope — you are welcome. Your story matters. And we are honored to be in the room when you find the words for it.

We all have a story to tell.

We work with communities to find ways to build creative strength and comfort in sharing our stories in order to heal, help others, and discover our true selves.

From working with adult artists to alternative learning center students, Our Narratives is a flexible program that will be customized to the community with goals to build relationships through art, music, writing, and self-expression.

Let's work Together!
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Heidi Jeub

Visual Artist, Writer, Storyteller

Terrell X’avion (Carnage The Executioner)

Performer, Writer, Actor, Storyteller

Heidi Jeub is a nationally recognized visual artist, painter, and public art practitioner from rural Minnesota whose work has always centered one core belief: that creativity is a vehicle for healing, connection, and truth. As founder of Heijeu Arts, a Minnesota nonprofit, Heidi has spent years building programs that make art accessible to communities that don't always see themselves reflected in traditional arts spaces. Her approach is direct, grounded, and deeply human — she shows up fully, and she expects the same from participants.

Terrell X'avion, known to audiences worldwide as Carnage The Executioner, is a Chicago-born, Twin Cities-raised rapper, beatboxer, performer, and storyteller whose career has been built on radical honesty and the transformative power of words. Terrell has a rare gift for creating immediate trust in a room — drawing out vulnerability, humor, and depth from people who walked in with their guard up. His presence in Our Narratives workshops is both an anchor and a catalyst.

Together, Heidi and Terrell bring complementary worlds — visual art and performance, rural and urban experience, structure and spontaneity — into a single, cohesive space where participants feel both challenged and safe.

  • Now Booking for Spring 2026

  • Our Narratives is now booking for Spring 2026. If you're a school administrator, program director, nonprofit leader, or artist ready to bring this work to your community, we want to hear from you.

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