Fellows
Dasha Dare is a multidisciplinary artist, ICF-certified coach, and founder of Time2Dare, dedicated to interrupting self-abandonment through somatic self-portraiture. Based in Washington D.C., she has spent over fifteen years working across photography, coaching, and writing, and is the creator of the DareMethod, a self-portraiture-based practice that uses self-face recognition as a tool for memory reconsolidation and self-encounter. She is completing a master’s degree at George Washington University in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, where her work draws on the philosophy of aesthetics, trauma research, clinical psychology, and the neuroscience of self-face recognition. Her central hypothesis — that self-face recognition during states of emotional arousal may facilitate memory reconsolidation — is the foundation of both her practice and a book in progress, Who Lived Your Life Yesterday?
During the Evermay Future Fellows residency, Dasha plans to subject her thinking to the kind of rigorous, cross-disciplinary pressure her current environment cannot provide. She intends to clarify the foundational architecture of her philosophy, method, and research hypothesis, and to develop the translational precision needed to speak accurately across scientific, philosophical, and experiential vocabularies. Her goal is to leave the residency with a more honest map of what she knows, what she is assuming, and what requires formal empirical study before it can be responsibly claimed — the foundation for a longer-horizon inquiry pointing toward a new literacy in self-encounter: the capacity to meet one’s own reflection without flinching, and to use that encounter as a doorway back to oneself. To the cohort, Dasha hopes to bring a particular quality of attention — listening for what is unspoken, reading the larger picture, and surfacing the underlying architecture of how meaning is being made — in service of the kind of collective thinking no individual mind can reach alone.
