A FREE monthly workshop series on Zoom
Stories are interwoven into our experience of life: they are how we come to know ourselves and to know others, and they are also how others come to know us in turn. Joan Didion said: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
We also tell ourselves stories in order to express what needs to be shared. Rather than suppressing, bypassing or turning away from what is real and present, our emotions, thoughts and values are a part of what it means to be human. Only in allowing ourselves to hold all of these and connect them in our bodies can we become free to express all of ourselves with new stories that move us into a future we want to belong to.
RESILIENCE
Our current times call for resilience, resolve and renewal. At the peak of summer in the Northern hemisphere, things are being scorched to rise anew from the ashes. What are you committed to bringing into the world now? Are you committed to nurturing resilience within yourself? Do you have the adaptability to ride the waves of transformation? Do you have the resolve to take action on what you’re committed to? This workshop will use the arts to anchor and enact a new vision or growth you want to navigate with resilience.
POWER
Like anger, POWER is a concept that has a lot of charge and edge around it. It can mean many different things, and the way we respond to it can take many different shapes. In this workshop, we’ll explore the connection between power and recognition. What expressions do various dialogues between these bring up for you? What does leadership mean to you and how can you bring it into more embodiment? If you know you can step into more power within your own leadership style, you won’t want to miss this workshop to help you transform your relationship to leading with power!
PEACE
My Easter Sunday exploration of inner and outer PEACE. I’ll guide you inwards to allow your inner sanctuary to reveal itself to you. We’ll bring this inner sanctuary into expression through visualization, drawing and writing and give time to just be with what arises in movement and in connection together. You can watch a different take on the first exercise at the end of this Yes Peace Walk Dance Sing event as well. It was fun getting to carry my own embodiment of peace practice through the following weeks!
GRIEF
The first workshop in the Embodying Stories series will be focused on giving shapes to GRIEF. If you are experiencing the loss of a loved one, precious animal companion, or grief over the current state of our world, this workshop is for you. I will offer some tools to help you hold and express your grief, so that you can become more fierce in who you are and what you stand for in the world.
ANGER
ANGER will be explored in a brave container to share experiences of this strong emotion. I’ll offer some tools to help hold and express your anger, so that you can become more clear and heartfelt in the way you relate to your anger. We’ll focus on how anger shows up in our hearts and our hands, as well as how stories of anger can be enlivening and create solidarity, show us when to move in other directions, or when to tear down or deconstruct what’s no longer serving us.
HOPE
As we begin a new year, the holiday celebrations wind down, and the gray winter sets in, HOPE can be something that is harder to find. In this workshop, we’ll be exploring mindset shifts with intention. I’ll guide you in creating your own inner compass to carry you forward. We’ll also be re-looking at our values and beliefs to begin embodying more wholeness, fullness and hopefulness for the coming year.