Friday Evening “Half a Shade Braver”
6.30pm-9pm | Location: Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
An immersive evening of where we are now, and where we’re going, as individuals and a community, through a lens of experiential embodiment. Featuring Erin Geesaman Rabke, Somatic Naturalist and Embodiment Mentor
Opening Poet: Nan Seymour | Featured Artist: Randee Levine (Thank you to Phillips Gallery) | Live Music: Lilly Jane Jeffery, Harpist
Schedule:
6:30-7:00 pm Live Music & Mingle
7:00-8:30 pm Immersive Talk
8:30-9:00 pm Community Social
James Hillman, the widely respected radical re-thinker and self-described “renegade psychologist”, concluded that therapy needs to change the world rather than focus on people’s inner lives.
In a talk he gave in 2011, he shared, “Sometimes the psyche upsets us in order for us to go further with our lives. A person goes to therapy because of a symptom, a problem, an upset. The question is not so much how to get rid of that but to ask ‘Why is this disturbance coming in my life? What does it want? What kind of a life have I got that it needs this disturbance?'” What if we bring this reverent curiosity and inquiry to what the pandemic has brought to our lives, personally and collectively?
During this inspiring evening, we’ll explore where we’ve been over the past few years, where we are now, and where we’re going as individuals and as a community. We’ll inquire about all of this and more through a lens of experiential embodiment and with an understanding of inter-being, as we begin again, personally and collectively, after 2.5 years, honoring the lessons that come along with it. We’ll explore our evolving understanding of wellness; we’ll look at the personal and global symptoms calling us to our true work in the world; and we’ll explore embodying our unique genius in relation to it all.
You’ll leave feeling at least half a shade braver and much more embodied, resourced to meet your life wholeheartedly.
Saturday Workshop: Gratitude, Grief, and Going Forward
1pm-6pm | Location: Full Circle Yoga
The day will include guided embodiment, writing practice, a communal ritual, an opportunity to connect in small groups, a community circle, and of course, there will be gorgeous poetry woven throughout.
I deeply believe in the power of an intentional community coming together to practice movement and stillness, quiet and connection, inviting our love and gratitude, inviting the difficult guest of grief, and, having been tenderized by those wise guests, freshly visioning how we might bring our unique gifts to co-create the more beautiful world we wish to see manifest. As Francis Weller says, “This is the solitary work that we cannot do alone.”
What I won’t do in this gathering is stand in front of you and talk and talk and feed you a bunch of information as if I’m the expert on what you need.
What I will do is invite your fully embodied presence, the wisdom and the concerns, the blessings and the aches, the gratitudes and burdens, the hopes, dreads, visions, creative inspirations, and unique gifts to come more clearly into awareness so they can offer their wise guidance. You’ll have an opportunity to share in a supportive community where it will all be met with respect, care and encouragement.
We’ll take enlivening, fresh perspectives on what’s unfolding in our lives by seeing with new eyes, and we’ll invite clarity to emerge to guide us as we return to our life, renewed, embodied, and inspired to begin again, going forth at least half a shade braver.