AN UPDATE! THIS WORKSHOP IS BEING POSTPONED FOR FALL AND WINTER OF 2024. MY APOLOGIES FOR ALL WHO HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST, I WILL NEED TO BE TRAVELING TO TEND TO FAMILY THIS WEEKEND. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN FUTURE WORKSHOPS.
Join us as we engage collectively in healing from trauma and grief with somatic and experiential practices lead by a highly experienced facilitator.
At a time when queerness remains both a deep source of joy and connection and a persistent source of trauma, grief and exile - we are reminded of the one of a magical quality of queerness - our radical ability to heal and thrive in community.
This Somatic Re-Storying workshop will be a highly experiential, narrative-changing healing space where you get to address your family- and culture-of-origin wounds in a small group environment with other LGBTQIA+ folx. During our time together we will engage in somatic and embodiment exercises to prepare our bodies, hearts and nervous systems to engage in psychodrama structures, a powerful modality for healing and transforming the wounds and stories we carry.
This practice is a highly collaborative, deeply experiential, profoundly transformative and innovative approach to healing relationship patterns and embodied narratives that no longer serve us.
In this workshop we will recreate in three dimensional space a representation of something we would like to heal. We do this in order to step into the deep longings and hidden wounds of our inner child/ren and then re-imagine new possibilities that become somatically imprinted with the help of group members and a highly experienced facilitator.
We often joke that this transformation of your relational templates and possibility maps “is like doing ten years of therapy in one hour.”
Workshop Details
Room for up to 12 participants
Participation open to LGBTQIA+ identified folx
Cost: $225 (if cost is a barrier to attending, please reach out and I will be happy to work with you)
If you are interested in joining, please join the waitlist via this form here.
Learn More
If you are interested in learning more about Somatic Re-Storying, you can read about it in chapter 18 of The Body Keeps the Score written by Bessel van der Kolk where it is referred to as “psychodrama structures”. This work was developed by Al Pesso and Diane Boyden and is also known as Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor. I want to acknowledge and thank my teachers and mentors in this work: Bessel van der Kolk, Licia Sky, Gus Kaufman and Jim Amundson.
“Queer people are not taught to think about our future. We spend so much of our lives digging up our history, focused on the legal and sexual economy of our present. Queer people are not taught to think about our spirituality. We spend so much of our lives banished from religions and focused on our bodies. In this time of plague, climate and economic crisis, when making plans feels futile and overwhelming, remember this: Imagining your Queer future is a form of prayer.”
~ Leo Herrera