We Deserve to Dream and to Heal

Community organizer and facilitator Aja Taylor claims that right now might be the apocalypse that we’ve been waiting for. She talks about the Greek roots of the word literally meaning to uncover.

So much has been uncovered in the last year, in the last four years on a collective level. This uncovering has meant so much for our communities, as we turn and face the realities and impacts of rising white nationalism, a confrontation with the realities of racialized capitalism being predicated on anti blackness and specifically police violence, and of course the unprecedented grief, rage, and uncertainty inside of the global coronavirus pandemic.

It makes sense that amidst this uncovering, for so many of us, our capacity to feel, know, and move into possibility are diminished. What would it be like to dream our way through the darkness this winter? Abolitionist author Jackie Wang talks about dreams being the place that racialized capitalism can’t touch.

​Let’s do more of that dreaming. It is through our bodies that this becomes possible. Our bodies are and can be places of imagination, of resource, of deep aliveness, and of connection.

In this highly experiential 12 week somatic healing group, participants will develop their capacity to imagine, to dream, and to feel deeply in community.

Participants can expect to feel themselves deeply and engage in deep, transformational, and embodied healing work. 

Each group will include:

• opening somatic practices to bring our bodies in alignment with our hearts and minds, and to bring ourselves present with each other
• practices of embodied mutual connection
• space to engage somatic imagination and possibility through creative self expression (i.e. writing, art, etc.)
• a teaching and discussion
• more somatic practice!
• deep support and healing

IN THIS GROUP WE WILL:

• DEVELOP THE CAPACITY TO FEEL AND TO KNOW OUR BODIES AS RESOURCES FOR OUR TRANSFORMATION
• UNDERSTAND THE WAYS THAT TRAUMA AND OPPRESSION INTERRUPT OUR CAPACITY TO IMAGINE AND TO DREAM
• FEEL INTO BODY AS A WAY TO ACCESS OUR LONGINGS
• LEARN TO FEEL AND TO KNOW OUR CONTRIBUTION DURING THIS TIME
• DEVELOP THE CAPACITY TO BE WITH THE UNKNOWN AND FEEL FOR UNKOWN AS A GENERATIVE SPACE
• ENGAGE WITH THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE BODY AND THE MANY SHAPES THIS INTELLIGENCE TAKES
• HEAL IN COMMUNITY, TOGETHER

DETAILS:

• 12 WEEKS JANUARY 19TH THROUGH APRIL 6TH
• TUESDAYS FROM 6:30-8:30 PM
• GROUP HELD FULLY ONLINE VIA ZOOM
• $85/WEEK OR $1020 FOR ENTIRE GROUP. 3 REDUCED FEE SPOTS AVAILABLE
• CLOSED GROUP WITH LIMITED SPACE. APPLICATION NECESSARY
• GROUP OPEN TO ALL PEOPLE 18+. QUEER, TRANS, BLACK, INDIGENOUS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

GROUP IS FACILITATED BY BROOKE STEPP, MS, CN, LMHC. BROOKE IS a MIXED, BLACK AND WHITE PERSON OF COLOR. THEY ARE QUEER, NON-BINARY, AND FEMME. BROOKE LIVES WITH INVISIBLE ILLNESS. THEY BENEFIT FROM THIN PRIVILEGE.
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*Participation in this group does not establish a therapeutic relationship with Brooke

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LIMITED SPACE: ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS UNTIL DECEMBER 24TH, 2020

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