Playshops

Embodied Integrity Playshops

Playshop Series: Three (3) Friday Evenings
January 17, February 21, March 20
(3rd Friday of each Month)

6:30-8:30pm

When you are grounded in the ongoing movement of coming home within yourself regardless of your circumstances, you feel plugged in, resourced, and capable even when facing difficult situations in your personal life, work, or in the world around you. In today's world, (re)aligning in this way and connecting with others who are doing the same is increasingly fundamental to the your well-being and the well-being of our precious environment.

Whether you are a facilitator, healer, therapist, coach, activist, or simply want to bring your whole and best self into your personal relationships, this series will support you to refine your presence and capacities to be and do in alignment with your purpose.

The Embodied Integrity Playshop Series grounds you in embodied presence, which is the foundation for authenticity, resonant listening, taking responsibility and participating creatively in your life.

Playshop One (1)

Embodied Presence: a Gateway to Insight and Empowerment

Embodied presence is a tangible quality that we can feel, which creates space to relax, open, and connect. Presence is a coming home to inhabit our bodies, hearts, and breath vs. something we do only with our minds. When we are present, we strengthen our ability to receive insights, and tap into our inner wisdom. When we are present in our body-minds and valuing our presence, we are empowered, as our bodies, breath and nervous systems cohesively reflect our true experience.

Enjoy whole-body presencing practices such as:

Breathing to connect with yourself and increase self-acceptance
How to embody specific qualities through your breathing and gentle movement, i.e. grounding, softening, energizing, expanding, etc.
Integrating feelings and thoughts within your whole-body awareness
How turning toward your embodied experience supports trauma resolution
Circulating your attention to connect and relate with others
Being of service by radiating your presence, wherever you are

Playshop Two (2)

Authentic Expression & Resonant Listening: Connecting Essence to Essence

Authenticity brings who and how we are into relationship, creating congruence between our experience and our expression, which strengthens impact. Listening resonantly allows us to receive another person’s authentic expression. The practices of authenticity and resonant listening dissolve communication blocks and create a resonant field of shared presence, connection and play more and more into our daily lives.

Enjoy whole-body practices such as:

Deepening your cohesiveness with experience and expressing
Connecting with the state of your nervous system as you express
Bad Listening Theater & Whole Body Listening
The connection between intention and listening
Authenticity and your Spirituality

Playshop Three (3)

Empowering Yourself & Claiming Your Ability to Respond: Responsibility

Responsibility is about presence and embodiment in *this* moment, allowing yourself to meet the moment from which you can discover your authentic response. Blocks to responsibility include: confusing it with blame or burden, fear which is often unconscious, and overwhelm. Healthy responsibility is learned through modeling. Given the widespread misunderstanding of what it is, there is no wonder we are surrounded today by many examples of avoidance and over- and under- responsibility.

Enjoy whole-body practices such as:

Refining your whole body recognition of blame states vs. embodied presence and responsibility, as well as how to shift gears
Speaking to what you notice, even in difficult situations, in ways that generate connection
Befriending and shifting conditioned reactivity
Expanding appreciation and capacity to be with the unknown
Deepening understanding of personal responsibility within the collective culture
Connecting responsibility with creativity and joy

Embodied integrity practices:

Include stillness and movement, allowing us to explore and discover in multiple ways.
Support us to inhabit our bodies, learn about our patterns and expand our possibilities.
Expand our capacity to participate and engage more fully personally, relationally, and culturally.

Embodied Integrity practices include:

Mindfulness
Emotional literacy
Internal discernment
Responsibility
Authentic communication
Resonant listening
Clear agreements
Openness to discovery
Living in appreciation
Movement play
Expanding creativity

Registration

Join this powerful and fun series and bring your whole self out to learn, explore and play!

Three 2-hour Meetings: January 17, February 21, and March 20
from 6:30-8:30pm

Location: St. Louis Wellness Center in Webster, Missouri

Sliding Scale Tuition for the Series
(Beginning Jan 1, 2020)
$75 Budget; $90 Sustainable; $108 Contributing

Registration includes:
* all three playshops;
* handouts for each session; and
* a minimum of 2 detailed emails or recordings for each session.

Come in comfortable clothes, and willing to breathe, connect, and explore through simple meditation and movement practices, as well as journaling and listening pairs so you can
connect with how your experience holistically, in and through your body. 

How Embodied Integrity Practices Differ From
Other Coaching Methods
here

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle