WORKSHOP – What is my role to play in social transformation?
What is my role to play in social transformation? A workshop for anyone interested in deepening their relationship to community and activism. Somatic and embodiment practices will help us tune into our bodies to collect, think and feel what we are longing for. We’ll be invited to identify our roles in the world, and what we care about, grounded in our whole presence, in finding joy and play. Playful activities from mindful movement, journaling, collective reflection and social transformation mapping will support participants to birth joyful acts of militancy into our lives and environments.
Among many resources, this workshop is inspired by "Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Time" – a book by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery – and inspired by the social change ecosystem map by Deepa Iyers.
Amélie and Mylaèle have in common growing up in the parisian suburbs, France and both are transplants from there to the United States, Turtle Island where they live, work, and imagine ways to co-create and inspire others to engage in social change to break away from the colonial-imperial project.
Saturday March 9th 2-5pm
Price : $75
Limited capacity
10-15% of the collect will go to the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Reach out to us at hello@stormbookstore.com
Schedule
Welcoming Meditation
Journaling
Somatic exploration
Break & refreshements
Collective social transformation mapping
Harvesting & Closing
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Mylaèle Negga (She/Her) is a bi-racial woman of French and Ethiopian descent. She is a communicator and storyteller for the United Nations, working on sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s agency and empowerment. She has been engaged in social change through various roles.
Amélie Gaulier (She/Her) is a white bodied woman with mediterranean roots, somatic movement therapist member of ISMETA and mindfulness instructor, improv performer and human weaver-whisperer for social justice, whose work involves remembering in our bodies our ancestry and how our human technologies can support decolonizing our soma and nurturing radical care for collective global healing.