Wednesdays, Sept 23 - Nov 18

6:00-8:00pm |

Friends Meeting House

Do you identify as someone committed to change in your community?

Are you a community organizer committed to social justice or liberatory movements?

Perhaps you long to be engaged in this work and don’t know how to begin? 

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The intensity of the political landscape is demanding more of us, individually and collectively. We are hearing from many people that they’re feeling powerless, overwhelmed, and confused. Many of us are feeling pulled in many directions trying to put out the quickly multiplying fires and are struggling to take skillful action. Our nervous systems are flooded with information daily and it's taking a toll. As the pressure builds, you might find yourself falling into similar patterns that keep you from living in alignment with your deepest values. 

If this feels true, you’re not alone.

It makes sense we feel powerless inside of all the rapid changes we are facing. We believe that one of the biggest lies told to us is that we are powerless. Somatics is a path of practice that supports us to reconnect to our own power and take skillful action. It deepens our awareness of our own reactive patterns and helps us learn how to keep moving toward what we care about even when we’re under pressure. We practice connecting with our own embodied agency and power because we have the potential to influence the conditions of our lives and this world. Somatic practice also invites us to claim our full aliveness even as the conditions of the world try to separate us from it. 

These times are calling for more of us to show up with courage and clarity about what we love. This 8-session coaching circle will be an introduction to politicized somatics for folks oriented toward political and culture change.

We will begin by clarifying our visions for the future we want to live in: What do you care deeply about? Who and what are you a fight for? What is your contribution in this moment? Using these insights as our guide, we'll use body-based practices to support better collaboration, deeper connection, and skillful disagreement.

Each session will include practical body-based practice paired with group discussion to integrate this learning.

By the end of our 8 sessions, you’ll have explored practices to support you to:

• Have increased awareness of embodiment: your emotions, sensations and behaviors

• Deepen your clarity and connection to your longings and what you care about 

• Ask for and receive support

• Coordinate more effectively with others

• Return to a connected, present state under pressure

• Intentionally nourish joy, connection, and wholeness

• Develop community for the sake of creating more belonging and visioning together

Where: Friends Meeting House, 206 S. Oak St, Traverse City, MI

When: Wednesdays, Sept 23 - Nov 18 from 6pm - 8pm (We will not meet the week of Nov 11)

8 weeks - We are asking people commit to all eight as we build on each week in the process.  

Cost: Low cost - $375    |    True cost - $425   |    Sustainer cost - $500

NOTE: We have two pay-what-you-can spots available. Please reach out via the contact form on this website if you’d like to attend with a “pay-what-you-can” contribution. Please register at the highest level accessible for you. The subsidized rate is supported by those in our community who are able to pay the actual cost or sustainer rate. No one is turned away from lack of funds

How do I decide what to pay? : You might use this tool to help you discern. 

Cancellation / Refund Policy: We will offer a full refund up to 2 weeks before the first session begins. If you cancel within two weeks of the first session we will offer 50% of your registration fee up to (90% if there’s a waitlist). After the first session begins there is no refund.

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Early bird discounts!

Register by Aug 19th and receive $25 off + a free 1:1 coaching session

Register by Sept 1st and receive $25 off

About the facilitators:

This workshop is co-facilitated by Lucy Waechter Webb and Tess Waechter Smith grounded in the Strozzi and generative somatics methodologies. Tess and Lucy are sisters, politicized healers + change makers who grew up in Michigan and after years of living away returned to the land and peoples who shaped them with a commitment and longing toward community care and racial justice. They approach somatics as a practice that offers personal and collective healing and change.

Learn more about Tess here at River’s Edge Somatics

Join us for a transformative small group coaching experience that brings organizers and change makers** together. Liberation comes when we struggle for it together. Politicized somatics helps us to practice the relational skills we need to embody the world we are dreaming into being.  Let’s find and support each other in this work together. 

Meaningful change requires practice. We say in somatics, we are always practicing something. What is that you want to be practicing in these times? 

**Note: We believe change work includes many forms of paid and unpaid work. This course is for you if you care about working toward liberation and are feeling stuck, overwhelmed or longing to build more connection and power as you work for change.