Agnese Roda

My name is Agnese. I was born with a bomb's explosion in my mother's womb. A few months before my birth, a bomb was placed in the train station in Bologna, Italy as a political statement. The explosion killed around eighty people and left many wounded. My mother at the time pregnant with me, felt the vibration in the womb and still remembers the physical sensation, the shift inside herself from a young woman to a mother, as well as the political and social change that bomb was trying to shift in the world. I use the bomb’s explosion as a symbol for my birth and for my work, as I mainly work with fire, the one of passion and commitment towards ourselves whenever we are aligned with our main values and we do not abandon ourselves to other narratives.

Fire should not make us explode and disappear, fire should also not be just a surviving flame that does not grow or spread. Fire should support our personal journeys, sustain our internal passion by fueling it in a healthy way.

For many years I suffered from digestion issues and hunger attacks. In many environments I found myself in, from a very early age, I was not allied with my purpose, unable to communicate clearly.

I started my journey in research, studying history, humanities, holistic practices and social anthropology, to understand the patterns we live in our personal lives and the way we relate to our family, nature, and the society around us.

I am a writer, a translator, a healer, a social anthropologist, a community worker.

I am interested in the way we relate, communicate, interact, connect.

I investigate culture, communities and conversations.

I focus mainly on personal and social stories and narratives and how we can better relate to each other and achieve the life of presence, harmony, and balance we all deserve.

I create writing, tailored healing sessions, storytelling, communication strategies, training, writing to support visual projects.