This in-person, interactive course will build your capacity, embodiment and understanding of yourself inside of liberation movements in the US at this time. Participants will explore the role our bodies, the land, and our lineage(s) play in building a different future and world. Courses typically infuse a combination of neuroscience, physical movement, song, connection to nature as well as practical and theoretical grounding materials into a unique curriculum customized for changemakers.
This course is designed as a preview of a longer forthcoming course that will take place in Florida in 2026. We focus on foundational practices and concepts as well as relationship building between participants.
One-day courses are a great opportunity to gauge your interest in going deeper into more intensive courses.
One-day courses may include introductions to some of the following:
Deepening your embodied awareness, practice, and learnings from the body up
Bringing your body into action in your work and life
Creating communities of practice that will support you to keep exploring, letting your body reveal more depth, and unearthing your longings
Deepening and building your commitment to racial justice and understanding and confronting racial capitalism
No prior somatics experience is needed. Typical course size is 15-30 people.
As a part of an ongoing commitment to resourcing Black embodiment and organizing, we've redistributed $50,000 to Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) each year for the past four years and are now also supporting local Black and Indigenous organizing anywhere we hold trainings.
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Dara Silverman is an embodiment teacher and social change consultant whose work is based on their 25 plus years of community experience in environmental, social, and racial justice movements, 35 years of facilitation practice, and embodiment training at the Strozzi Institute and generative somatics.
Adaku Utah is a Senior Teacher and Coach with BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity), and a teacher and practitioner with Generative Somatics, supporting movements in their work to transform the conditions that shape our lives—by transforming the body, the collective, and our possibilities. She serves as the Director of Movement Building Programs at the Building Movement Project, where they work with movement-building organizations on both short-term rapid-response efforts and long-term power building ecosystem strategy.
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This course is offered on a sliding scale. The true cost per participant is $150.
Sustainer Rate - $250+: for those who have generational or inherited wealth.
Supporter Rate - $151-249: for those comfortably paying their rent or mortgage and those being sponsored by an organization with sufficient budget.
Grounded Rate - $101-150: for those who have a regular income and are paying their mortgage or rent.
Equity Rate - $50-100: for those who are challenged to make ends meet.
This infographic includes more about the sliding scale tiers for consideration.
All of this only works if everyone pays at the level they are able - not at a level lower than what they can pay. Together we can create financial balance when we each pay in alignment with our abilities.
Your registration fee pays facilitators a living wage, allows us to redistribute a minimum of 20% of funds to local Black and Indigenous groups as well as Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, and includes paying the ERJ Practice Manager for organizing and administrative fees associated with the course.
Donations and sponsorships to offset the course cost for other registrants are always welcome.