Moving Conditions
3 dates
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Savannah Theis
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| Activity | Moving Conditions |
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A series of facilitated group sessions exploring symptoms through drawing, moving, and embodying creative patterns in our difficulties.
“All symptoms can be transformed into "advisors" so that they are not just "bad" things to be eradicated. Their meaningfulness itself is often a great relief.“
- Arnold Mindell, ‘Working with the dreaming body’
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These experimental sessions offer creative ways of relating to our body experiences as a group. Exercises involving drawing, moving and interacting will guide embodying and expanding information in our symptoms, like a form of dream-work. Participants are invited to bring a theme or situation they’d like to gain perspective on, forming the context for our explorations. There’ll be opportunity for one participant to elaborate on what emerges, with support from the group.
A process of mutual aid, each session invites sensing into and moving one another’s experiences, interchanging the roles of mover and witness. We’ll consider how ways of being and relating emerging through this might be needed in our wider contexts. This draws on ideas from body- and systems-based facilitation approach Processwork, that symptoms have a social context and are both personal and expressions of a wider field of experiences and relations.
Info for participating:
Sessions are suitable for people with an interest in improvised movement and experimentation. No prior experience necessary.
Participants are welcome to attend multiple or one-off sessions. Please arrive on time and commit to the full session when you come.
Following your body’s needs, however you are in the moment, will be welcome.
Access: There is one step to get into the front door of the venue. The bathroom is up a flight of stairs.
Tickets:
Spaces are limited to max 8 people.
Tickets are offered at a tiered sliding scale.
2 tickets are available at £12
4 tickets are available at £18
Pay-it-forward tickets are available at £24
To ensure room hire costs are covered, a session may be cancelled if there is a low attendee rate one week before the event.
About the project:
These sessions form part of Savannah’s Processwork diploma project, studying the effects of exploring symptoms collectively, applying techniques from art and Processwork. She's shared this research in various formats and contexts, including performance venues, art and dance studios, experimental education settings, community centres, wellness spaces, and online.
To support this research, Savannah will invite participants to complete short consent and feedback forms before and after the session. She may also document some of the process, and will check with the group about consent for this.
Facilitator:
Savannah (she/her) is an artist, Processwork facilitator and individual and couples therapist in training living in London. Often collaborating and co-creating settings for participation, she is interested in communal learning processes and the conditions facilitating how we speak, listen, move and make sense together.
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