I'm Dr. Corinna Moebius, a Scholar-Activist, Author & Guide for Deep Adaptation to Eco-Social Shifts
My teachings, writings and walks explore our attachment to the places we call home. Places hold wisdom. They can teach us a lot about resilience and hope—even in unsettling times …
Where do I belong? Where and how will I belong? Where is home?
In these disorienting times, you might be asking these questions.
I’m Dr. Corinna J. Moebius, a collapse-aware scholar-activist, educator, and guide who helps individuals and communities navigate solastalgia, displacement, and societal upheaval. If you’re grieving changes to the places you love—whether due to climate disasters, political instability, or systemic inequities—you’re not alone.
I take a different approach from conventional eco-grief support. I don’t just help people “cope”—I help them rethink power, place, and belonging through a decolonial, relational, and eco-spiritual lens. My workshops, courses, walking experiences and coaching integrate:
🌿 Core-Respond (CR4) Framework – Re-Ground, Relate, Re-Orient, Regenerate
🌿 Ritual, Myth, Arts/Somatics & Trickster Wisdom – Finding resilience and community in uncertainty through local-global relationships
🌿 Place-Based Learning & Critical Inquiry: Understanding home in alternative ways through attentiveness to the environment, magic and silenced histories
If you’re looking for a deeper way to process today’s crises—one that bridges grief, hope, and collective action—let’s connect.
📩 Contact me for coaching, consulting, or speaking inquiries.
🌿 See my Calendar for upcoming workshops & walking experiences
Corinna J. Moebius, Ph.D.
Co-Author, A History of Little Havana
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More Than Two Decades of Transformative Work
For more than 20 years, I have led and facilitated creative events, workshops, and walking tours that empower people to think differently about place, nature, identity and community. In Miami, DC, and other locales, my work has helped support residents and local businesses, foster inclusive public spaces, and bridge arts and civic engagement for placemaking and public history initiatives.
- Played a lead role in supporting local mom & pop businesses and cultural events in Little Havana, promoting inclusive public spaces, community arts and community engagement.
- Created Miami’s first changemaker conferences for grassroots leaders and the city’s first conference on arts, culture and civic engagement.
- Developed a multimedia curriculum piloted in after-school programs nationwide, aimed at giving youth a voice in placemaking decisions.
- Developed walking tours that challenge dominant narratives, surface silenced histories and deepen understandings of people and place.
I taught courses on identity at Florida International University and critical urban studies courses internationally as faculty for the School for International Training’s acclaimed study abroad program, Cities in the 21st Century: People, Place and Politics. My immersive, experiential programming engages participants directly with communities and their environments, fostering understanding, inspiration and connection.
Featured on NPR, PBS, and in The New York Times, and recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, I bring a deep understanding of place, culture, race, immigration, and eco-social resilience to my work. As the co-author of A History of Little Havana—a “people’s history” of the neighborhood where I lived for 15 years—my interdisciplinary background in global, historical, and sociocultural studies enriches my approach.
I have learned so much from you and I will take this with me for the rest of my life. You are so caring, you approach life with so much passion. You are changing the world.
Magical and life-changing.
Your expertise and commitment to making better public places cannot be lost to the world.
Corinna sees the forest and each tree at the same time. She can communicate complex material in a form that everyone understands: via word, image, sound, motion, and silence. She has a deep, intuitive sense about different learning styles, interpersonal reactions to group activities, and creating space for individual co-learning and expression.
Cornerstones of my Practice
Whole Body Learning
Rediscover how to learn through your whole body: the place with which you are intimately familiar. I challenge mind/body, nature/culture, and us/them orders and divides that shape popular ideas of self, others, place, and the environment.
By engaging in practices of presence, movement, and attentiveness, learn how to release your creative self from the bonds of these separations.
Creative Connections
I foster creative connections and spaces for healing through co-learning experiences. Feel the collective joy and belonging that emerge when we come together through arts, poetry, storytelling, movement, reflective activities, outdoor walks and dialogue! These are also opportunities to grieve together. Together, we interact in the web of life, enriching our community relationships.
Critical Awareness
New possibilities arise individually and collectively when we experience time and space from a decolonial and systems perspective.
By exploring the historic and local-to-global forces that shape how people make and frame history/time and places — from homes to cities to own own bodies, we are better able to cultivate thriving, just and regenerative communities.
Regenerative Relationships
We expand our sense of self and understanding of “place” by honoring ancestors, community, the Living Earth, and the cosmos, expanding beyond genealogical ideas of “kinship.” Create individual and collective rituals for honoring place and land, roots and routes. Deepen resilience by embracing these relationships alongside others on this journey. No matter where you are, there are ways to belong.