Cultivate your resilience, meet others, and let yourself unfold inside our monthly community events. Tap into your global network of change-makers working towards a more just, life-sustaining, and thriving future for all.
Somatic Practice & Support Group
With Morgan Vanderpool
$25
Place: Online (Zoom)
Date: Sunday, Oct 11
Time: 10:00 - 11:15 am PT
Movement and awareness practices for emotional wellness, drawn from traditional qigong and meditation as well as modern somatics.
These practices are helpful for moving stuck energy related to the emotions happening in our personal lives as well as our pain for the world, and helpful for cultivating more capacity and resilience.
While most of this session time will be dedicated to somatic practice, we will also have time for optional sharing about a current grief, anger, or other pain each of us experiencing. With those in our awareness, we can bring them into the movement practices for release and resourcing. We'll reflect together after the practices as well.
For this session, you will need space to stand in, and a comfortable place to sit. If you need to practice lying down, sitting, or in stillness and using only visualization, all these practices are adaptable to those needs.
We are so excited to have Morgan Vanderpool joining us for the somatic circle this month! They bring an incredible wealth of embodied knowledge and experience which can help us ground, center, and move us toward action.
Morgan Vanderpool, LICSW, is a queer, non-binary, neurospicy, ecologically and intersectionally grounded: collective neuropractor, neuro-sensitive movement specialist, regenerative practice facilitator, choreographer and community builder- with 15+ years serving experience as a global complex trauma specialist.
They're dedicated to facilitating inclusive, accessible, mycelially-grounded and somatically abolitionist, restorative embodiment practices- that strengthen our collective capacity to healthfully, pleasurably, & soulfully move with every layer of our badass survivor selves. So we may co-build thriving nervous and eco-systems- ONE BREATH AT A TIME.
In their workshops you get to experiment with a playful mix of: body-based mechanical downloads, choice-based movement and breath practices, and creative opportunities to be wowed by the wisdom of our collective survivorship.
Morgan is the the founder/creator of MorganicMovement & co-founder of Mycelial Movement Network, and is an accomplice to the Black-lead liberation work of Holistic Resistance. You can listen to their musings on collective mental wellness, queerness, pleasure & co-liberation on their co-hosted podcast Queerly Forward.
Music as Medicine Community Sing
With KJ Song
$25
Place: Online (Zoom)
Date: Sunday, Nov 15
Time: 10:00 am - 11:15 am PST
The Music As Medicine Sunday Community Sing is a morning of song & sanctuary, this time with special guest Ríomas!
For many millennia, music, and specifically music made together in community, has been a crucial way we bolster ourselves in hard times. Music can mend our bones and pour in the grace. It can transform our exhaustion and help us feel more held as a part of the choir.
Just as it feels good to act in the companionship of others on behalf of life, so too is the homecoming of singing together.
All are welcome! No music experience necessary.
KJ Song (they/them) is the queer, kinky queen of a cappella body-Gospel. A seasoned songcatcher and Voice Doula, KJ deeply understands the eroticism of singing and the harmonics of a life of devotion.
Defying stereotypes and belting through dogmatic Christian norms, KJ is at the forefront of inclusive Praise and Worship music. KJ is a proud member of the City of Refuge UCC Praise Ensemble, founder of the Queer Praise Choir and former co-director of WildChoir in Oakland. CA.
Let's get one thing queer... KJ is here to pray.
www.kjsong.com
To be announced
Thought Partnership
with Lydia Violet
$40
Duration: 30 minutes
Deep Dive
with Lydia Violet
$200
Duration: 60 minutes
In these sessions, you can meet one-on-one with school founder Lydia Violet Harutoonian. Feel free to bring in any questions you have about the "Work That Reconnects," projects you are working on, or anything else that feels relevant to seek thought partnership from Lydia about.
Starts with a short intake questionnaire, so Lydia is already holding your context before the session begins. This is the space for the bigger, harder-to-untangle stuff, including:
• Leadership and community empowerment: working through a specific leadership challenge, such as conflict mediation, confidence in your role, support with decision making etc.
• Holding group spaces: the particulars of facilitating politically and socially attuned groups, towards learning and healing.
• WTR-specific framing: applying the Work That Reconnects lens to personal and collective situations.
• New role support: the leap and recalibration of stepping into something you haven't done before.
• WTR-specific work: going deeper on your own practice, teaching, or facilitation within the framework itself.
Want to keep going? Ongoing sessions are $170/hr. Book a package of 3.
Thought Partnership
with Lydia Violet
$40
Duration: 30 minutes
In these sessions, you can meet one-on-one with school founder Lydia Violet Harutoonian. Feel free to bring in any questions you have about the "Work That Reconnects," projects you are working on, or anything else that feels relevant to seek thought partnership from Lydia about.
Deep Dive
with Lydia Violet
$200
Duration: 60 minutes
Starts with a short intake questionnaire, so Lydia is already holding your context before the session begins. This is the space for the bigger, harder-to-untangle stuff, including:
• Leadership and community empowerment: working through a specific leadership challenge, such as conflict mediation, confidence in your role, support with decision making etc.
• Holding group spaces: the particulars of facilitating politically and socially attuned groups, towards learning and healing.
• WTR-specific framing: applying the Work That Reconnects lens to personal and collective situations.
• New role support: the leap and recalibration of stepping into something you haven't done before.
• WTR-specific work: going deeper on your own practice, teaching, or facilitation within the framework itself.
Want to keep going? Ongoing sessions are $170/hr. Book a package of 3.
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