In this workshop, we’ll use a wide variety of tools to first face the many types and levels of grief we’ve been living with and then (begin to) transmute that energy into a fuel that can be used to power action. This work can happen because we are joybody… because our essential nature is meant for something other than all the anger and anxiety we’ve been living with this year.
And though that joybody nature can feel very exhausted, very covered up, almost to the point of being gone, it’s still there. It just needs to be tended to — in a variety of ways.
We’ll be using: therapeutic joybody movement art (very guided and not at all what you think of as dance), visual arts (whichever is your favorite — drawing, painting, taking photos), writing, and ritual.
We’ll be doing all of this, of course, in community, a vital ingredient to the work.
WHEN (for full map of our time together, keep reading):
Starting Sunday, November 22nd.
And ending the week of Sunday, December 13th, which concludes with the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, or the great compassionate mother.
I’m offering this workshop with two tiers of pricing. You get full access to everything no matter which price you pay. First is $108 and second is $77. I’m hoping this helps.
Some Important Bits on Your End to PREPARE:
You will need either a large scarf or about 2 yards of dark fabric.
You’ll also want to gather writing and art materials (again, whichever medium you like so it might just be the camera on your phone!), candles, and anything that might be included on an altar (stones, pictures, flowers, symbols, whatever calls to you).
You must be connected to me on Facebook as we’ll use a closed and private group on there for a primary “classroom.”
You must be able to use Skype and you need to connect to me on there (you can find me and wave to me via my email — christineserfozo@gmail.com).
You need access to shared music lists. I’ll do these via both Spotify AND YouTube.
PLEASE PRACTICE YOUR TECHNOLOGY before the first Sunday evening get together: BE ABLE TO RUN BOTH SKYPE AND YOUR MUSIC AT THE SAME TIME. This is vital.
WHAT I HOPE FOR YOU:
This workshop is meant as a STARTING POINT for work that we all need to be doing into the new year. So you’ll have breakthroughs, surely, during our time together, but you’re meant to take the bits and pieces and techniques that really speak to you and continue using them for perhaps even the whole of 2021 if not a good month after we finish.
I want you to feel more hopeful than you’ve felt in a long time by the end of our time.
I want you to feel like you have energy for action.
I want you to have more clarity for next steps.
And again, I want you to have an arsenal of tools that you can continue to explore.
HOW OUR TIME WILL BE STRUCTURED:
Each Sunday evening (or on your own time) we’ll meet on Skype for 60 to 75 minutes starting at 5:30 PM (EASTERN TIME).
THESE SKYPE SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED BUT…. BUT!!!!! THE RECORDING ONLY STAYS AVAILABLE FOR THAT WEEK. So you can be with us live or you can catch up and watch when you can but WITHIN THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
Then throughout the week, I’ll be posting content regarding visual arts, writing prompts, and ritual building exercises. (This content will remain up for one month following the conclusion of the workshop.)
Again, I’m offering this workshop with two tiers of pricing. You get full access to everything no matter which price you pay. First is $108 and second is $77. I’m hoping this helps.