This interactive workshop offers a glimpse into an ongoing action research community at Queensborough Community College where participants practice Social Presencing Theater; SPT uses simple body-based exercises to awaken our capacity to sense, discern, and initiate. Workshop attendees are invited to practice and dialogue with the student and alumni participants, while learning about the struggles and successes of sustaining an iterative process on campus. We will include tangible examples from our social change process, from a student’s first person experience of the transformation of everyday life, to ensemble transformation on identity, power, and privilege, and student-initiated programming via a workshop on empathy to action.We aspire to re-cultivate care in our relationships within the academy. Through each delicate gesture of our attention, we revitalize empathy and intuition, developing our capacity to generate space for engaging in difficult conversations, untangling wicked problems, and co-creating open futures.