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Event
Title: Social Somatics Awarness Practices for Social Movements
Description: Six Facilitators from around the world come explore conflict as a critical source for innovation and regeneration that supports healthy growth in individuals, families, communities, nations and global networks. Come learn how to transcend the pattern of flight, fight, or freeze when conflicts intensify, and recognize conflict for what it really is – a source of wellness. Over an intensive 3-day institute you will learn how to: a) bring greater awareness to how you have embodied responding in conflict; b) learn how to make these disturbances useful through transformative facilitation techniques; and c) to integrate your new skills on real world issues. Our approach to process work incorporates a modality developed by members of our team and presented at the 2010 United States Social Forum - on social somatics – a modality that helps accelerate social change, using personal and group somatic tracking embodiment exercises and praxis. Cultural preservation and cross-cultural bridging is our complex frame that will be used to practice deep democracy skills within. The primary objective is to facilitate conflict forums on cross-cultural issues most pressing to the Midwest.
Come experience conflict in a new way, as a resource for change, and as a reservoir of our deeper intelligence. Come experience how conflict, when appropriately engaged may foster community growth. Denial of conflict does not deepen relationship. Instead, such denial degenerates into somatic [body] symptoms in people. Come join us and be the change.
Dates: December 2nd through 4th Time: 1pm - 9pm on 12/2, and 10am - 6pm on 12/3, 12/4 Cost: $150 for the series. Limited part of whole scholarships available before November 1st. [please inquire to Zea at 415.320.4340]. To Register: Registration closes on November 19th. Space is limited.
Venue Waite House Community Center 2529 13th Ave South Minneapolis MN 55404 http://www.puc-mn.org/NeighborhoodCenters/WaiteHouse/tabid/196/Default.aspx
Presenters The Embody Deep
Democracy Action Team We are an international cast of facilitators working to deepen democracy
by tending to cultural difference through conflict facilitation. Zea Leguizamon, SMT Movement Strategist Colombian American - Zea Leguizamon, MA, SMT is a movement specialist. She facilitates conflict and change making to improve relationship for couples, and groups using Process Oriented Psychology and Somatic Movement Therapy. Email: movetochange@gmail.com Sam Grant, MA, MS Master Trainer / Master Facilitator African American and Ewe - Sam Grant, MS/MA is a Community Economic Development professor. He co-founded the following organizations; Organizing apprenticeship Project, the Wendell Phillips Community Development Federal Credit Union, and the Green Institute Eco-Industrial Park. He is also the co-founder of the following trainings; the Grassroots Public Policy Institute, Twin Cities LISC/Metropolitan State University Careership Program. He is certified in Human Systems Dynamics. Email: samfcci@hotmail.com Louis Alemayehu Cross Cultural Elder American Indian and African - Louis
Alemayehu is a writer, educator, activist, poet, father, grandfather of African and Native American heritage. He facilitates
workshops on racism, culture, environmental justice and community building. His writing has appeared in national and international
publications such as The International Process
Work Journal. Louis is a
cofounder of the Native Arts Circle, Ancestor Energy, and Afro Eco. In 1993 he was awarded a LIN
(Leadership in Neighborhoods) Grant from
Saint Paul Companies as a community based artist. In 2003 the Headwaters Foundation gave Louis
an award for life-long commitment to social justice. Email: ancestorenergy@gmail.com Mohammad Alarja Conflict Facilitator Palestinian - Mohammed Alarja, is a conflict facilitator. He is trained in Process Oriented Psychology’s world work method. Please see him in his film on Palestine Isriel work! Email: mohammadargh@yahoo.com
Tia Richardson Graphic Facilitator African American - Tia Richardson is a visual artist. She uses her background in drawing and painting to illustrate what is happening energetically in the body for others, based on individual or collective feedback, for them to use as a visual too in oder to improve relationship with each other. Email: tiachianti@yahoo.com Page: facebook.com/cosmicbutterflydesign
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