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Social Room, Van Ness
East Apt. Complex.
2939 Van Ness St., NW
Fee: $10
May 12, 2005
7:00-9:30PM
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Violence is the ultimate expression of conflict. It
could also be described as the ultimate failure of the
imagination - the inability to imagine the
reality of another person, group, landscape, or
alternate options. This creative block comes in many
forms - emotional, psychological, systemic, and
environmental. Of all forms of violence that permeate
our lives, the most subtle and pernicious is our
sensory disconnection from the natural world,
from other people, and from our own alive and
sensing body. However, we can learn to use our
bodies to reconnect in dynamic and subliminal ways
that actually change our individual and collective
environments to create resonance and pre-empt
conflict before it inflicts harm. The body can sense
before the mind when an opening, a discovery, or an
agreement is about to occur. Part of our ancient
wisdom heritage, anthropologists call the experience
of collective resonance communitas.
It is from this place that we can creatively
ask, "What is possible now?" In this workshop, we
will look at the
impact of disconnection at the interpersonal and
cultural
levels. We will explore a path to
communitas
through direct experience of space, each other,
and
ourselves through movement, visual art, and
improvisational writing. Benefits include:
Strategies for gaining information from our
multiple intelligences
Heightened sensitivity to nonverbal
communication and hidden dynamics
A vocabulary for creating collective resonance in
groups
Physical and emotional restoration and stress
reduction
Dr. Juliet Bruce is a writer, director of the
Institute
for Transformation
Through the Arts, and Larson Fellow in
Spirituality
and Health at the Library
of Congress. She is there to research her book,
Embracing the Dark: A Creative
Approach to Violence in America. You can reach
Juliet at
www.arts-for-life.org.
Communitas sculpture
image (c)2003 by Peter Michel at
www.petermichel.com.
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