SCHEDULE
Erica Hornthal — A Body-Aware Approach to Cultivating Embodied Resilience
A 75-Minute Experiential Session
In today's world, no one is exempt from hardship and struggle. And yet when we are faced with challenges we look to rebound rather than move toward a new understanding of the self. Embodied resilience is accessible to everyone and, just like a muscle, must be conditioned and strengthened. In this workshop, Erica Hornthal will guide participants through an experience designed to explore current connections to resilience as well as foster a stronger practice intended to support moving through the difficulties of life. Participants will engage in expressive movement, art, and journaling. No previous movement experience is necessary.
Sam Taitel — Practice in Everyday Life: A Body-Forward Inquiry
A 75-Minute Experiential Session
Have you considered your toes today? If so, which one? I've been thinking about my left big toe; it's been both giving me some pain and is the crux of a technique I'm contemplating. Our toes, digits, and bodies are incredible homes from which we can learn infinitely. Join me as we explore our bodies and listen to what they are telling us, from the softest whisper to a huge yawp, and how we can respond. Through intentional awareness we better understand ourselves, and with boundaries of kindness we can enhance our communication with others. Let's talk about it.
Dr. Christine Caldwell — The Psychology and Biology of Boundaries
A 75-Minute Experiential Session
The art of developing and maintaining good boundaries lies in understanding how the body naturally chooses what it gets closer to and what it gets more separate from. By beginning with our biological heritage regarding boundaries, we can cooperate with our body's organic processes and add in needed social complexities. This presentation will quickly overview the body's defensive capacities from a cellular to organismic level, and then dive into practices that take into consideration context, identities, and interactional styles as a means of adaptively maintaining bodily integrity.
David Weinstock — From Reaction to Resource: Transforming Core Strategies
A 75-Minute Experiential Session
Invariably, we all grow up creating strategies that organize around a unique set of circumstances. Core strategies are the deeply embedded primary physical, emotional, and linguistic behaviors we've historically put in place to safeguard our basic needs for safety and belonging. Catching our triggered responses more rapidly and working with them instead of against them is a profoundly transformative practice. We will notice and touch those precious parts of ourselves that we've learned to protect in the first place. Then, with care, empathy, and practice, transform old reactions into more inclusive, compassionate responses in times of overwhelm and conflict, internally and with others. This inner process builds tolerance for ourselves and understanding of our emotions as it grows the capacity for holding with compassion the emotional difficulties of others.
Jennifer Nurick — Working Somatically with Porous Boundary Patterns
A 75-Minute Experiential Session
This session focuses on porous boundary patterns, which might manifest as people-pleasing, enmeshment and difficulty saying 'no'.
In this 75-minute session, Jennifer will guide you through a three-step process to explore embodied boundaries, to find your energetic boundary, to discover a healthier boundary template, and find the internal support you need to create stronger boundaries.
