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Somatic Bodywork Program

by | Oct 16, 2019

Somatic Bodywork Program

Somatics Bodywork Program

This course is for politicized healers, healing justice practitioners and social justice workers who want to deepen their understanding of the soma, and how we transform through the body.

Dates:
TBD (Not active 2020)
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Deadline:
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About This Course

This course is for politicized healers, healing justice practitioners and social justice workers who want to deepen their understanding of the soma, and how we transform through the body.  We will focus on somatic anatomy, qualities and ethics of touch, somatic opening and transformation, and giving and receiving somatic bodywork. Deepening our skills in healing and somatic transformation is focused on serving our collective, liberatory vision and values.

Key Learnings Include:

  • Deepen your ability to transform through the body

 

  • Increase your ability to perceive somatically (what’s embodied and how) and make a difference for other with these skills
  • Expand your listening, feeling and compassion and be able to apply this with yourself and others
  • Practice staying ‘centered’ during a wide array of emotional states (yours and others)
  • Deepen your somatic coaching skills
  • Use somatic bodywork techniques to help transform people’s somatic shape
  • Increase your own embodiment and use the course to deepen your own transformation
  • Increase your ability to be with people through their openings
  • Continue to understand somatic shape in relation to history, trauma and social conditions and how to move this towards commitments, vision and longings

Is This Course for Me?

Coming soon.

Course Details

This course is currently not active. 

We strongly encourage participants to take our Embodied Leadership or Somatics & Trauma courses prior to participating in this course.

This course is currently not active. 

Be the first to know when the course and application are available again by signing up for our e-news. Contact development@staging.gs-dev.mysites.io

This course is currently not active.

Be the first to know when the course and application are available again by signing up for our e-news. Contact development@staging.gs-dev.mysites.io

This course is currently not active.

We are committed to making sure that money is not a barrier to participation. We are committed to economic justice and to challenging white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and all systems of oppression in every aspect of our work. As part of that, we have a commitment to making our programs accessible and affordable to poor and working class people and people of color who are on the frontlines of social and environmental justice movements.

Be the first to know when the course and application are available again by signing up for our e-news. Contact development@staging.gs-dev.mysites.io

Thank you for your interest and for all the ways you support us!

Please consider making a donation to us for the sake of making our programs accessible to innovative movement leaders, to poor and working class communities, and communities of color. All donations go a long way for us and no amount is too small to have an impact.

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gs Stories

“When I entered Somatics and Trauma in 2014 I was organizing in New York, winning campaigns, but not able to feel the impact of my work. I felt stuck and disconnected. Somatics gave me the ability to feel more, to connect to those around me, and to be a more impactful organizer in the movement. Since 2014 I’ve seen gs transform entire organizations, offering tools for organizers to deepen their ability to heal with both love and rigor.” - Che Johnson-Long, Community Engagement Specialist, Reimagine ACDC
"Over the last five years my personal and professional life has been transformed through the courses, coaching, mentorship, and community of generative somatics. I credit so much of my learning and growth as an organizer to generative somatics. In this political moment, gs is needed more than ever.” - Ileana Mendez-Penate, Communities United for Police Reform staff
“Being able to identify and communicate what I’m feeling opens up a world of possibilities. A lot of people look at me and the work I’ve done and think ‘he’s cool, he’s got this.’ They could assume that I don’t need support, but that’s not true. Now, I can say, ‘I am really afraid and I need you to hold this, I can’t keep holding everything and being at the center’. That’s completely new for me to have the awareness to say—‘this is what I’m feeling, this is what’s happening’. It opens up a door to say—I can be competent, and also afraid. I can lead, and also need support.” - Nate Mullen, Director of People in Education
"Somatics has opened to me a community and a methodology for integrating personal healing and transformation into political leadership. And as I've transformed, I've had more access to my own creativity and power. Today I'm designing more creative and impactful campaigns and I'm successfully cultivating new leaders who find this work liberating rather than demoralizing and draining." - Sendolo Diaminah, Carolina Federation Co-Director
"gs has allowed me to believe in the power of my self worth, renew my commitment to social justice work, and reclaim my dignity in profound and life altering ways. gs has taught me how to tap into the infinite power I have within myself, my histories, and my futures to better serve social and ecological justice movements across the world in ways that honor the inherent dignity and worth of land and people." - Sam Jung, gs teacher
"gs is the most powerful source of that healing I have ever come across. It is a rare space for personal inquiry and change that is actually grounded in the radical anti-colonial, anti-racist, feminist, queer politics that we love and need. It is the first place I ever felt like I did not have to set aside my politics, or swallow a harmful environment, in order to access group practice toward personal transformation." - Dean Spade, gs student

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