Workshops & Classes

Workshop: Trauma-Informed Creative Expression

 

This workshop illuminates the ways trauma and social inequities (capitalism, patriarchy, racism, etc) impact creative expression in arts and business. Through part- educational lecture and part-guided creative writing, we'll explore ways to liberate our creative voice from internalized social messages to foster healing and self-expression in all areas of life.

 

Participants will be guided through trauma-informed creative writing techniques, mindfulness practices, and discussion to explore what mind-body empowerment looks like for them and ways they would like to channel a sense of pleasure, presence and joy into creative pursuits in arts, life and business.

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Length: 1.5 - 2 Hours

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Learning Outcomes:

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• Understand Physiological Responses in Creative Expression: Participants will develop an understanding of how the body's trauma responses (fight-flight-freeze-fawn- dissociate) impact their creative expression and artistic process.

• Access States of Safety, Presence, and Pleasure: Participants will learn techniques to access states of safety, presence, and pleasure, utilizing the body’s window of connection (ventral vagus nerve) to enhance their creative process and sense of safety with creating from a place of authenticity.

• Apply Trauma-Informed Somatic Practices: Participants will receive trauma-informed practices based in somatics (mind-body practices) and creative writing exercises aimed at supporting creative expression

• Integrate Personal Joy and Presence into Creative and Financial Pursuits: Participants will explore ways to channel their sense of somatic pleasure, presence, and joy into creative mediums in arts, work, and business, promoting authenticity and self-expression.

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Workshop: Integrity in Artistic Practice:

Somatic (mind-body) Boundaries For Creative Empowerment

 

Length: 1.5 - 2 hours

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This workshop illuminates how to create from a place of being true to ourselves while facing social pressures to create in particular ways that satisfy external voices. We will explore the body’s responses (fight-flight-freeze) to social media’s algorithm, popularity culture, and socio-cultural messages about what makes someone a ‘real’ artist, and how these factors impact creative expression and contribute to artist burnout. Teachings on engaging our felt-sense of personal boundaries to navigate social norms and expectations that hinder self-confidence and creativity will be discussed. Trauma-informed strategies for engaging somatic (mind-body) boundaries to create from a place of self-empowerment, compassion and pleasure will be explored.

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Learning Outcomes:

• Identify & Navigate Social Pressures in Artistic Practice: Participants will recognize and analyze social media algorithms, popularity culture, and socio-cultural messages influencing artistic expression.

• Understanding Body Responses: Participants will learn to identify and understand the body’s responses (fight-flight-freeze) to external pressures in artistic contexts

• Enhance Self-Confidence and Creativity: Participants will explore techniques to enhance self-confidence and creativity through engaging sensual expression and honoring personal boundaries

• Promote Self-Empowerment and Compassion: Participants will cultivate practices that promote self-empowerment, compassion, and pleasure in their creative process.

• Prevent Artist Burnout: Participants will learn preventative measures against artist burnout caused by external pressures and societal expectations.

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Workshop: Body Wisdom: Sexuality-Sensuality

For Creative Expression & Financial Empowerment

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Empowering connection with the body's wisdom for enhancing confidence with financial agency & creative expression in arts & business.

 

Length of Time: 1.5 - 2 hours

 

Description:

 

Sexuality and finances are both topics often steeped in social narratives of shame and repression; impacting our self-worth, creative expression, and sense of financial agency. 

Just as social values and narratives shape our understandings of sexuality, these same narratives transfer to shaping our relationship with creative expression and financial empowerment as well. 

 

Somatic writing enables us to challenge oppressive narratives of sexuality and money by connecting us with our body’s inner wisdom and true desires, empowering us to craft narratives about sexuality and money that foster a sense of empowerment, confidence, and joy. In turn, these narratives can liberate our creative expression in arts, business, and all areas of life. 

 

When we feel empowered to own our body’s desires and sexuality / sensuality - we will feel empowered to own our unique creative expression and financial agency as well. 

 

Using a combination of lecture and artistic guidance, this workshop guides participants through Somatic Writing techniques to explore how beliefs about sexuality impact their relationship with money and creativity, and ways we can create empowering narratives of both.

 

Learning Outcomes: 

 

• Gain Insight: Understand how societal messages about sexuality, rooted in shame and control, influence creative expression and financial empowerment.

• Explore Somatic Writing: Engage in guided somatic writing exercises to reconnect with your body’s wisdom, exploring what sexual-sensual agency means uniquely to you.

• Integrate Pleasure and Presence: Discover ways to integrate a sense of somatic pleasure, presence, and joy into your creative and financial pursuits, fostering authenticity and empowerment.

• Uncover Intersections: Examine the intricate intersections between sexual empowerment, creative liberation, and financial autonomy through personal reflection and shared dialogue.

• Cultivate Practical Strategies: Acquire practical strategies to dismantle internalized shame, cultivate self-compassion, and envision pathways to holistic empowerment in all aspects of life.

 

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