projects
WanderBloom's work centers on comics as a form of storytelling — a medium we believe is uniquely suited to helping people hold complex history, spirituality, and identity. Below are our current projects, along with opportunities to bring this work directly to your school, congregation, or organization.
The Spirits in ME
The Spirits in Me helps people make sense of their inner stories. Through storytelling, reflection, and education, the program explores how generational history and trauma shape spiritual identity — and how that understanding can become a source of healing and growth.
Using six original comics depicting real historical religious conflicts, participants examine how the past continues to shape the present — and practice the tools to reflect, reframe, and move forward with intention.
With GratitudeThe Spirits in ME would not be possible without Pamela Nunez-Trejo, the artists who brought these stories to life.
The Spirits in ME Comics
Each comic in The Spirits in Me is told in two halves. The bottom half depicts a real historical religious conflict. The top half follows a modern-day person, in the present, discovering, reflecting on, or reckoning with that history through their own story. Together, the two halves show how the past continues to live inside the present — and how storytelling can help us make sense of it.
Note: The Israel-Palestine comic uses a different structure. Because this is an ongoing, still-unfolding conflict rather than a historical event, its bottom half instead follows two present-day student protesters — one Pro-Palestinian, one Pro-Israeli — and their motivations, while the top half follows an Israeli and a Palestinian archaeologist working alongside two children to build connection across the divide.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade (West Africa)
A tribal war ends with the victors' spirituality declared superior — and the defeated sold to slave traders. In the present day, a griot carries these stories forward through music, using song to hold and pass down her people's memory.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade (United States)
Enslaved communities secretly held onto faith and each other even as Christianity was twisted to justify their bondage. In the present day, a student named Malik researches the hidden spiritual bonds within enslaved communities, uncovering a legacy of resilience he didn't know his own history held.
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The Salem Witch Trials
Fear, suspicion, and religious extremism spiral into mass hysteria as innocent women are accused, tried, and executed for witchcraft. In the present day, a community leader hosts a quarterly interfaith dialogue and service day, turning historical wounds into an ongoing practice of healing and connection.
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The Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears
Religious doctrine and government policy combine to justify the forced removal of Native peoples from their homeland, a journey marked by devastating loss. In the present day, an artist honors that history through paintings and sculpture, using his art to preserve and share his tribe's story with his community.
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The Holocaust
Centuries of anti-Semitism, weaponized and escalated, culminate in the systematic genocide of six million Jewish people. In the present day, a young woman shares her grandparents' story, leads a community dialogue on remembrance, and plants a memorial tree as an act of healing and hope.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Two present-day student protesters — one Pro-Palestinian, one Pro-Israeli — each carry their family's history of persecution and displacement into their activism, illustrating how inherited pain shapes present-day conflict. In parallel, an Israeli and a Palestinian archaeologist work side by side with two children on an archaeological dig, modeling what it looks like to build connection and shared discovery across deep division.
Trainings / Workshop
WanderBloom offers workshops for schools, congregations, and organizations looking to build tools for reflection, dialogue, and healing within their communities.
Using frameworks like the Blooming Pathways Model, our workshops guide groups through recognizing inherited patterns, learning new context, contributing to their communities, examining their own beliefs, and recalibrating toward the harmony they want to see.
Public Speaking
Rose Sall is available for speaking engagements on spirituality, generational trauma, narrative identity, and building more inclusive faith communities.
Whether for a classroom, conference, or congregation, each talk is shaped around your audience's needs — grounded in storytelling and rooted in real, lived experience.