Raquel's Creative Portfolio by Raquel Cabrieto

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During the early months of the pandemic in 2020, Raquel partnered with HABI Education Lab to co-create and facilitate the Strong Start online learning series for teachers. The sessions supported educators in navigating remote teaching while centring well-being, reflection, and connection. Grounded in culturally responsive and human-centred design, the series reached thousands of teachers across the Philippines through live broadcasts.

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In Oct 2024, she anchored the Daloy ng Karunungan training series by Cartwheel Foundation. Here, she cultivated culturally rooted practices—especially for Indigenous early childhood educators—through storytelling, self-reflection (“kumustahan”), and designing nurturing learning spaces

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In 2021, Raquel was featured in PARA, a virtual arts showcase by TOPAZ ARTS (New York), where she collaborated with international artists to explore themes of diaspora, memory, and belonging. Blending poetry and movement, her piece offered quiet, embodied reflections rooted in nature and inner stillness. The project showcased her ability to create deeply resonant, cross-cultural work—even in virtual spaces. Raquel’s contribution reflects her unique strength in weaving creative expression with cultural and emotional depth.

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Raquel created a prototype meditative poetry podcast, drawing on poems written during the pandemic and inspired by her studies in Tungkuan ng Tula, She guides listeners to deeper presence through reflective haiku and contemplative poems.

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In 2022, she was a co-recipient of the Creative Communities Learning Lab grant to co-create a course on Facilitating Creative Collaborations, with UK-based organisation Advantage Creative. The experience strengthened her facilitation practice, equipping her with tools to design inclusive, co-owned creative processes rooted in care, cultural sensitivity, and shared leadership across both local and international contexts.

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In Tacloban, as a contributor to the “Kalungganayan” exhibit by Kolor Banwa, she offered poetic reflections honoring pandemic-era frontliners, viewing hope through an artist’s lens

January 2024

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Pagtitiwala sa Pagsisimula

(Trusting the Beginning)

In this video, Raquel offers a poetic and embodied reflection captured during the SIMULA DIWA Nature Experience at Ground 1 Art Space. As a word-intuitive and eurythmy practitioner, she explores the energetic layers of Filipino language—breaking words into syllables, inscribing them in Baybayin, and moving with each letter to sense their deeper resonance. One key insight emerged from her inquiry: the word wala (“nothing”) exists within tiwala (“trust”), revealing a quiet truth about surrender and beginnings.

The piece blends movement, stillness, and glimpses from the two-day nature retreat facilitated through @tagpuan.ng.diwa where participants of all ages engaged in deep reflection, shared presence, and creative exploration on the land. Raquel continues to lead DIWA Nature Experiences as part of her practice in regenerative well-being, inviting individuals into a space where inner and outer landscapes can be explored with openness of mind, heart, and will.

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Through Tagpuan Ng Diwa, she guides individuals in outdoor experiences to cultivate self compassion, mindful play and healing for self, others and the earth, integrating indigenous psychology in her approach.

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In Oct 2024, she was 4th place in the second instalment of Cognayan Poetry Slam, a platform that brings together creative thinkers and performers to explore the cognitive and cultural dimensions of original work. Held in collaboration with LIKHAAN: UP Institute of Creative Writing, the event supports literary expression as a tool for social development through the Ganap project for her poem.

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University

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Masters of Arts in Basic Education Teaching, Ateneo de Manila University

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Certificate of Participation, Introduction to Expressive arts facilitation, Magis Creative

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DIWA Cards for Well-being

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In 2021, Raquel led the creation and successful crowdfunding of DIWA Well‑being Cards, a limited‑edition deck designed to elevate well‑being in educational and community spaces. The project produced 25 beautifully illustrated cards—centred around daloy (movement), isip (mindfulness), and gawa (mastery)—each paired with reflective prompts and an accompanying PDF guide featuring original haikus. She collaborated closely with three Filipino artists and a textile designer to ensure culturally resonant artwork and locally made botanically dyed pouches. The campaign exceeded its fundraising goal, signing on 47 backers (105% funded), and allocated 12% of proceeds to subsidise well‑being and Social Presencing Theatre workshops for public school teachers. Through this project, Raquel combined creative leadership, community engagement, and mindfulness, crafting a tangible tool to spark meaningful conversations about well‑being and collective care.

In 2025, she updated the deck to be a full set of 50 cards with 25 illustration cards and 25 haiku cards and organised DIWA playdates.

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Raquel was a contributor to the book Love Languages of God, where she shares her own spiritual experiences, connecting with nature and her deep reverence for Mother Earth.

March 2025 Women's Circle

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Kababaihan DIWA Nature Experience

In collaboration with Kai farms - a permaculture near the city, alongside voice movement therapist and sound healer Yeyette San Luis and embodiment practitioner, Phillline, Raquel designed and facilitated a women's retreat to help women reconnect with the power of their voice, to own their stories, and ease into their bodies—coming home to themselves and being in community.

May 2025 Creative Envisioning Workshop

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Pagbubuklod DIWA: Creative Envisioning

She co-designed and facilitated an interdisciplinary workshop that guided participants to reconnect with their inner clarity and plant intentions for collective futures rooted in Earth and soul. Blending movement, astrology, somatic sensing, cyclic wisdom, visual art, and clay work, the session invited deep presence and purposeful visioning. Participants explored inner landscapes through embodied practice and creative expression, reflecting on the call to “umuwi sa diwa”—to return home to essence, breath, and consciousness. The experience fostered resonance, renewal, and grounded dreaming in times of change.

March - April 2025 Edu+Care | Edu-Kalinga Well-being Series

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Raquel designed and facilitated a psychosocial support session for teachers and care workers as part of the Edu-Kalinga initiative, in partnership with Z Santillan of Pilipinas Journal, which was part of their practicum in Expressive Arts facilitation. It was held at @artmed.io’s healing space. The session used expressive arts and embodied practices to reawaken inner vitality (sigla) and affirm the often-unseen labor of educators and caregivers. Designed as a space for rest, reflection, and creative renewal, the experience honored the well-being of those who nurture others—centering presence, community care, and cultural resonance.