About Mazarine Treyz (she/her)
Mazarine is an American, multi-hyphenate polycreative – artist, trainer, writer, speaker, human design reader, consultant and facilitator of spaces for radical learning. She is the creator of many projects and art pieces.
In human design, she’s what’s known as a manifesting generator (shoutout to my 3/5 MG’s!). Manifesting generators are those individuals who have multiple interests, careers, talents, skills, and embrace the fluidity of it all. She’s meant to be “both/and” not “either/or” in all aspects and areas of her life.
Some different facets: Trainer, Resource mobilizer, Conference director, Human design reader, Speaker, Writer, Poet, Dancer, Singer, Meditator, Artist, Community builder and so much more that she hasn’t even explored yet.
Some identities + realities that inform her lived experience:
French/German background, queer, mid-40s, curvy, citizen of the US, overseas living in multiple continents, raised Unitarian, unlearner, questioner of systems, socialist.
Passions include:
- Writing it all down. Writing every day. Writing books, courses, articles. Poetry, reading and writing it, hosting poetry readings.
- Art, including felting, encaustic, monotype, drawing, painting, sumi-e ink painting, oil pastel, creating series and surprises inside of art, looking at art, getting inspired by artists.
- Dance and Music, dancing in wild abandon, trying new things, taking a new step, playing piano, discovering new music, listening to sound baths.
- Resource Mobilization, capacity building training, telling stories and helping people get resources for their movements.
- Agitation against white supremacy in all its forms, pro-Black, womanist, and using workshops to help people have difficult conversations, understand white supremacy culture, sociology, history of oppression, equity in contracting, gender equity.
- Spirituality, human design, gene keys and meditation, finding myself through these practices, helping people find the gift in their shadow, walking near waterfalls, finding spiritual renewal at waterfalls.
- Making new friends, being a good friend, having potlucks with people I love. Making art together. Art parties. Playing games together. Dancing together. Sharing memes and making each other laugh.
If I were a book...
My personal bibliography. If I were a book, here are the sources that would be cited, by subject, in the order that I found them:
Rimbaud, Alice Notley, Bob Holman, Slam Poetry, Dada, Frank O’Hara, Joanne Kyger, Jack Spicer, Larry Fagin, John Godfrey, Hoa Nguyen
Hundertwasser, Wangechi Mutu, Joan Mitchell, Rick Bartow, Encaustic conference, Felting
Keith Good’s Tai Chi in Thailand, Peter Roth’s Heart River Healing School, Kiatsuho in Aikido by Koichi Tohei Sensei, Kay Cordell Whittaker, Quiet Thunder Chi Kung
The New Astrology by Suzanne White, Destiny Cards by Robert Lee Camp, Certified, Human Design by Karen Curry, The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd, In the Dark Places of Wisdom, about Parmenides & The Cult of Apollo
Grassroots Fundraising Journal by Kim Klein, Uncharitable by Dan Palotta, Donor Centered Leadership by Cygnet Research Group, Decent Work for Women research by Ontario Nonprofit Network, Work Your Proper Hours – UK, Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, Resisting Work and The Worst Is Yet to Come by Peter Fleming, Work Won’t Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe, Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
John Taylor Gatto’s A Different Kind of Teacher, Lies My Teacher Told me by James Loewen, Adultism
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl, Shadow Tender by Natasha Kolosowsky, Jodorowsky study group, Metageneology by Jodorowsky, Meeting the Shadow book, Kasia Urbaniak The Academy, Simone Seol, Boundless Awareness by Rodrieguez
Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, The Society of the Spectacle by Guy de Bord, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, Chris Hedges, various, McMindfulness by Ronald Purser, Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
Feminist politics at the University of York, Gender Studies at college, A Cultural History of the Modern Age by Egon Friedell, The Dollop Podcast by Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds, Aaron Levine, The Sickness Is the System by Richard Wolfe.
Community Centric Fundraising, Hench by Nathalie Zina Walschots, Wealth Reclamation Academy of Practitioners with Veronica Garcia, Transition Resource Circle with Alnoor Ladha, Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit, The Will to Change, by bell hooks, Desiree Adaway, The Nap Ministry and Rest as Resistance by Tricia Hersey, Kierra Taplin on Grief and Joy, Rachel Wyley’s culture kinesis, Deneisha Thompson, Nneka Allen, Liberation Spring & Feral Visions podcast by Anjali Nath Upadhyay, Belly of the Beast by Da’Shaun Harrison, Towards Braiding by Elwood Jimmy, Dr Debra Jenkins, DismantlingRacism.org antidotes to white supremacy culture, Bayo Akomolafe
I am the daughter of Jane Treyz, the daughter of Betty Kussem, the daughter of Margaretha Frankenbach, the daughter of Henrietta Seeman and on my father’s side, the Tremblay lineage back to the 1600s with the first two Tremblay brothers who came to Canada from Perche France.
image description: Mazarine Treyz, a white person with light skin, looking up at the sky. She is surrounded by green treetops and her eyes and hair are brown.
As Featured On:
The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Nonprofit PRO, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, AFP National, and many other places.
