My Story

Hello, I am Masa. I founded World Community Connect to bring my lifelong dream to life: creating a space where healing, creative expression, and compassionate education are accessible to everyone, and where diversity, equality, and mutual respect are not just ideals but lived realities.

Hello, I am Masa. I founded World Community Connect to bring my lifelong dream to life: creating a space where healing, creative expression, and compassionate education are accessible to everyone, and where diversity, equality, and mutual respect are not just ideals but lived realities.

It took many years for me to find a medium that could hold the depth of these experiences. Through creative tools like filmmaking, collage, painting, and visual storytelling, paired with meditation, mindfulness, somatic movement, and energy healing, I discovered healing as both practice and expression. These tools allowed me to face my wounds, grieve openly, embrace self‑sovereignty, expand spiritually, and make courageous promises to myself.

These intersecting practices helped me build greater tolerance, openness, and respect—not just for myself but for the rich diversity of human experience. They also clarified my belief in the transformative power of sharing personal stories. When we offer fragments of our lives, struggle, and triumphs, we create a reservoir of empathy and connection that nurtures healing for individuals and communities alike.

My journey took another pivotal turn when, at eighteen, I was one of the protagonists in the documentary Ragazzi di Sarajevo (Children of Sarajevo), directed by Daniela Cavini. In that film, I shared some of my most painful wartime experiences. That experience made me understand the urgency and importance of having one’s voice heard—but it would still be years before I found a true creative language that could fully hold and release that accumulated weight.

As I built a new life in another country, coping with loss—including the death of my beloved mother—I deepened my commitment to keep creative expression alive. Through doctoral studies in film and audiovisual fields, I discovered how visual aesthetics, inner reflection, and artistic experimentation could become portals to deeper understanding, compassion, and transformation.

Today, my work is an alchemy of art, nature, creative storytelling, somatic embodiment, and spiritual exploration. It invites others to reclaim their voices, honor their stories, and co-create healing spaces together. I still see that teenage girl on her bicycle — riding through streets exposed to snipers and grenades, moving toward something hopeful, creative, and true. Sharing the darkest parts of our souls can feel overwhelming and vulnerable, but it also enriches our sense of self, nurtures collective empathy, and catalyzes profound healing.

It is my offering to serve as a facilitator of creative and healing processes. I encourage personal storytelling, dismantling of stereotypes, and liberation from guilt, shame, fear, and conditioning. IWhether you want to explore these practices or share your story, I warmly invite you to join me in the Online Living Archive of Personal Stories.

When we express our unique voices with integrity, we create environments aligned with our truest needs. We dare to make courageous decisions across every area of our lives, build supportive communities, deepen empathy, and reclaim our right and responsibility to heal. We choose boundaries that honor us, challenge internal systems and outdated beliefs, step into the wild unknown with our fear and anger in hand, and—above all—we dare to love authentically.