2017 Schedule
Event Title
The Relevance of Transformative Body Practices to Diversity and Social Change: An experiential workshop
Location
Room 311 (3rd floor)
Start Date
21-4-2017 2:00 PM
End Date
21-4-2017 4:00 PM
Description
The original motivations for creating the field of Somatics are easy to forget in the understandable pressures to meet the enormous needs of suffering people in our own neighborhoods and to earn a living doing so. But the originating intentions of the founders was to address the collective pathologies of our histories, recognizing the potentials for profound social change inherent in the widespread cultivation of the wisdom of the body, through intentional practices of breathing, touch, sensing, moving, tasting, and other methods of entering the vast interior worlds of our earthy being. In this presentation, there will be an elucidation of this history and an account of how this vision address issues of diversity. The afternoon session will be a longer introduction to these themes. Both sessions represent a new stage within the Somatics program to craft a practice that works with various groups in the world to bring about shifts in the social pathologies.
Event Type
Interactive Session
The Relevance of Transformative Body Practices to Diversity and Social Change: An experiential workshop
Room 311 (3rd floor)
The original motivations for creating the field of Somatics are easy to forget in the understandable pressures to meet the enormous needs of suffering people in our own neighborhoods and to earn a living doing so. But the originating intentions of the founders was to address the collective pathologies of our histories, recognizing the potentials for profound social change inherent in the widespread cultivation of the wisdom of the body, through intentional practices of breathing, touch, sensing, moving, tasting, and other methods of entering the vast interior worlds of our earthy being. In this presentation, there will be an elucidation of this history and an account of how this vision address issues of diversity. The afternoon session will be a longer introduction to these themes. Both sessions represent a new stage within the Somatics program to craft a practice that works with various groups in the world to bring about shifts in the social pathologies.
Comments
Don Hanlon Johnson is one of the handful of creators of the Somatics field, and the CIIS graduate degree program in Somatics. The core of his work has been the exploration of the relationships between transformative body practices and the creation of a just and soulful social order.