Hello,

I hope this message finds you well.

I will be facilitating this CPD workshop on embodied privilege in November.

If you would like to book a place, please get in touch.

Feel free to pass onto to friends, colleagues, anyone who would be interested.

Many thanks

Sophia

SOPHIA ANSARI, MA. BWY dip, UKCP accredited.                      

Yoga therapy & somatic psychotherapeutic counselling.

www.sophiaansari.co.uk

Resilience & diversity training for mental health & caring professionals

www.beingwithdifference.co.uk

                           Embodied Privilege: How much space do I take?

Monday 5th November 2018, 10.00a.m- 5.00.p.m. Cardiff.

A CPD (7 hours) workshop for:
counsellors & psychotherapists,
counselling psychologists, psychiatrists & psychoanalysts
Drama, art, dance- movement & somatic therapists
mindfulness and yoga teachers
nurses, midwives, massage therapists, body workers, osteopaths & chiropractors

Privilege is a secure position, an acquisition of advantages and benefits that are bestowed systematically.

Understanding privilege can be challenging, privilege dynamics exist in a web of silence and invisibility. Revealing the intricacies and patterns that privilege norms and myths perpetuate can be deeply rewarding. Intimately knowing our position of privilege helps us to use it responsibly to generate empathy, healthier boundaries and reciprocal prosperity.

Our body is a resource for inquiry; awakening our body agency and strengths gives us the means to explore our personal material.

This workshop offers a brave space for professionals to explore what privilege means, what it feels like and how it moves us.
Using somatic methods: body mapping, mindful inquiry and movement exploration, participants can name and explore the shape, texture, weight and grip of their socialised influences and biases.

Drawing upon decolonising, embodied epistemologies, this exploration takes place through an awareness of power- within and power with. The day will be paced and spaced to support rest and digest, acceptance and self compassion as a means to work constructively with any arising shame, guilt, powerlessness or frustration.

Themes that will be explored during the workshop:

·         How can we use a social justice taxonomy to help us identify and understand what privilege means.

·         How do we move from defensiveness to curiosity; breaking the habit of by- standing and collusion to becoming an engaged witness

·         What stories or insights do my skin, bones, joints, organs, tissues and nerves hold?

·         How much space do I take up when I talk, walk, move, think, push, plan, pull or hold?

·         How can I reposition myself and step out of inherited scripts and identifications.

·         How can I use space to support pausing, listening, responsiveness, observation and reflection?

Spaces limited to 8
Price: £50.

Venue: The Crescent Centre, Meanwhile House, Curran embankment, Cardiff, CF10 5FX

To make a booking for this workshop
email Sophia on: [log in to unmask] 

Feedback from previous workshops:

"I am deeply appreciative to be introduced to this emotive and complex subject in such an intelligent and compassionate way, Sophia is a very talented facilitator with an embodied and relational ethic" T.F, core process psychotherapist

“ I have left this workshop with a big sense of realisation and calm, the activities helped me become aware, relaxed and confident to question”  feedback from Mary, 2nd year psychology student at Bristol University