Embodied Explorations of Collective Resilience/Resistance
Guided practices, learnings, conversations, and embodied explorations to support our collective capacity.
Creation is the best resistance.
~Solidarity Economy Panel Discussion So let's create new pathways of resource and resilience together. Let's create new collective possibilities. |
Thursdays 6:30-8pm
facilitated by Amanda Franz Pre-Registration helpful. Drop-in's Welcome $10-30 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. APRIL 4th: Embodied Support 11th: Circles of Support/Pod Mapping 18th: Nervous System 101: Education & Practices 25th: Making Space for Grief Masking Optional.
Air filters will be running. Please reach out if you would like any of these offerings with a "mandatory masking" policy. More specific details below. |
EVENT DETAILS (as they emerge):
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April 4: Embodied Support
Somatics can be powerful in how it can explore how we embody, and even how we practice embodying concepts, through the living tissues of our bodies. It is a powerful tool for practicing ways of being, especially when we don’t necessarily feel them in our everyday lives. Let's practice Embodied Support. Practices will be consent based, rooted in the lineage of BodyMind Centering, and invite explorations of relationship to gravity, release, listening to what our fascia and bones have to teach us, and giving and receiving collective support. |
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April 11: Circles of Support / Pod Mapping
Pod mapping is a powerful tool (coming out of the Transformative Justice movement, first written about by the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective member Mia Mingus) created “to address and prevent harm, violence, emergency or crisis”, though it can have endless uses and applications. Folks can make general pods, accountability pods, parenting pods, crisis support pods, etc. I love it as a consent based support structure. Together, we’ll learn about pods, and start mapping some for ourselves. If you can, bring paper and drawing utensils (some will be available for use). Expect some guided explorations, some info sharing, and some time set aside for individual pod mapping. A portion of the proceeds will go to SOILTJP. |
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April 18: Nervous System 101: Education & Practices
As Resmaa Menakem writes in My Grandmother's Hands: "Few skills are more essential than the ability to settle your body. If you can settle your body, you are more likely to be calm, alert, and fully present, no matter what is going on around you. A settled body enables you to harmonize and connect with other bodies around you, while encouraging those bodies to settle as well. Gather together a large group of unsettled bodies— or assemble a group of bodies and then unsettle them-and you get a mob or a riot. But bring a large group of settled bodies together and you have a potential movement-and a potential force for tremendous good in the world. A calm*, settled body is the foundation for health, for healing, for helping others, and for changing the world." Come learn about your nervous system and explore practices that allow for more regulation and settling. Expect some info sharing, some guided explorations, and some time for crafting your own nervous system support practices. *the invitation towards a calm body doesn't mean that anger and activation are bad or not useful. They are very human responses to the violence around us. His naming of this as important speaks to what components are needed for long term collaboration, engagement, and mutual connection. |
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April 25: Making Space for Grief
"To reimagine and reshape the world,
grief is a skill we need." ~Malkia Devich- Cyril author of "To Give your Hands to Freedom, First Give them To Grief" We welcome you to join in creating space for grief… to be and move with what we are carrying individually and collectively and to find support in being held in the space of our collective container.
This gathering is an invitation. There will be no expectations about how grief shows up or moves through you. You are welcome to arrive with all that you are and all that you carry and simply be present in whatever capacity you are able in the moment. In the shared space of our time together, we will be holding intentional time to grieve. Many people have resistance to opening the door to grief because it can feel overwhelming and bottomless. We will be doing this gently and with a time container. We will take time to arrive together, ground in the group, make space to talk about grief and be in silence and reflection, and then move into our ritualized grieving container. We will only dip into grief for a set amount of time and then offer support integrating and transitioning from that space. When we open the doors to grief, often many emotions may show up or even frozen stuckness. All of this is welcome. Grief doesn’t have to look or feel a particular way. The important thing is that intentional time is created for grief and to just be with whatever arises. We welcome you to arrive with whatever you are holding and move, sound, and express whatever emotions well up during our time together. You are invited to bring art supplies, if desired. You are invited to bring any items to place on the altar. These items will return with you afterwards. |
