This two-day, 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 organizers, coaches, healers and more.
In this session, we focus on foundational practices and concepts as well as relationship building between participants.
Two-day courses are a great opportunity to gauge your interest in going deeper into more intensive courses.
Two-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, community, and life
Building resilience and resourcing practices to sustain through these turbulent times
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.
This course includes two nights of housing and meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch.
As a part of an ongoing commitment to resourcing Black embodiment and organizing, we've redistributed funds to Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) each year for the past five 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.
Bhav Nancherla mostly moves in this world as a somatic practitioner, facilitator, and parent - held and shaped especially by generative somatics and Training for Change. They've moved in a range of roles and spaces over the last 2 decades: non-profit operations, anti-violence & sexuality rights movements, radical childcare collective organizing, full-spectrum doula support, and peer sex health education, to name a few.
These days, they feel very lucky to be deepening relationship with spirit for both the day-to-day and collective scale, and as parent - humbled and moved by the practice of unconditional love. Bhav longs to be of service in ways that reestablish the dignity and resourced flow of care, and especially for revitalizing channels for our grief.
Bhav lives on unceded Lenape land, also known as Brooklyn, NYC, and have relentless gratitude for the generous beauty offered by the waterways and life of nearby Prospect Park.
Rachel Berliner Plattus is a somatic practitioner, organizer, and popular educator living in intergenerational community on Massachusett and Pawtucket land. Rachel has worked for decades at the intersection of social movements, community learning, and democratic change. She is co-creator of Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation, a global storytelling project highlighting community-led approaches to building just and sustainable systems. Rachel comes from people who gather people, who know that no problem is too big for a kitchen table, who find meaning in wild places and wild times and shape change on the side of life in the face of cultures of death. She is a founding member of the Bent Birch retreat center stewardship team.
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This course is offered on a sliding scale. The true cost per participant is $800.
Sustainer Rate - $1,200-2,000+: for those who have generational or inherited wealth.
Supporter Rate - $800-1,999: for those comfortably paying their rent or mortgage and those being sponsored by an organization with sufficient budget.
Grounded Rate - $600-799: for those who have a regular income and are paying their mortgage or rent.
Equity Rate - $400-599: 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 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.