Somatics: Resilience, Healing, and Connection
Mon, May 9, 2022, 2:00 PM – Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 4:00 PM
Registration for this event will include access to all 5 workshops. RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/somatics-resilience-healing-and-connection-tickets-330292081507
In-person locations will be shared through email.
May 9th, 2pm-4pm - In Person
May 16th, 2pm-4pm - Zoom
May 23rd, 2pm-4pm - In Person
May 30th - NO SESSION due to Memorial Day
June 6th, 2pm-4pm - Zoom
June 13th, 2pm-4pm - In Person
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As we all process the experiences of the past several years and begin re-emerging into collective spaces in familiar and different ways, COO is excited to partner with Devon de Leña and Katelyn Song to offer a six-week series on Somatics as a methodology to account for and work through the impact of trauma and oppression in our bodies.
Goals:
Revitalize practices of resilience that support us to face the ongoing challenges of our collective world
Focus on how to recover from burnout and build skills toward sustainable healing practices
Bear witness to a group of peers in their own healing and transformation
Cultivate body-centered practices for deepening into mutual connection, deep emotions, resilience
Devon and Katelyn frame institutional and structural oppression (including racism, sexism, homophobia, classism and ableism) as forms of trauma. Their practice acknowledges the deep historical impacts of colonization, slavery, and continued systemic inequity on brown and black bodies, as well as other marginalized communities. They use somatics as a body-based healing methodology to help us transform trauma and oppression through our bodies to help us re-cultivate safety, dignity and connection.
We'll be building practices around our individual and collective leadership to help sustain and embolden our lives and work together and tools to help us take sustained action towards systemic transformation. Because this is a body-based methodology, there are some activities that involve making physical contact with one another. While we encourage your full participation, we are committed to everyone having full choice and consent within this workshop and will offer non-contact alternatives.
To honor the safety of the community that is built - we also ask that participants commit to attending the entire 6-week series (the week of Memorial Day will be skipped).
Presenters
Devon de Leña
Devon de Leña has worked with over 20+ organizations in the PNW providing facilitation, team building and organizational coaching since 2010. She found her home in youth-development, activism and organizing among the vibrant social justice community in Seattle. With lifelong roots in the Pacific Northwest, devon is committed to fierce organizations fighting for racial, gender and youth justice. As a mixed-raced woman of color, devon values the importance of intersectionality and honoring complexity within our stories and movements. She believes in building power through healing, creativity and cultural work. devon's facilitation highly interactive and inclusive of various learning styles. Her commitment is to have participants feel engaged, creative and leave with tangible skills.
Katelyn Song
Katelyn Song has been a somatic healer and youth worker in Seattle since 2008. "I have been working in the Seattle area as a youth worker for more than a decade and received my Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington School of Social Work. Through a relational approach and body-based, Somatic Therapy, I partner with clients to identify what deeply matters to them and cultivate more aliveness and new skills to align their actions and values. I identify as a woman of color, Korean transnational adoptee, mother and someone who is committed to my own path of healing and transformation."