SESSION 9:
EMBODIMENT, TRAUMA, AND RESILIENCY
Note: breaks are not reflected in the schedule which follows.
SATURDAY, 24 JULY 2021
TIME ZONE CONVERTER
Session Evaluation
14:00 - 15:00 UTC
students & alumni Follow up Q&A: COMPASSION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: A CONVERSATION WITH ZEERAK AHMED, SONIA E BARRETT, ETO OTITIGBE, KONJIT SEYOU
15:00 - 20:00 UTC
Embodiment, Trauma, and Resiliency Day 1
The Biopsychosocial Model: How to center the body in processing individual and collective experience
A workshop with Margherita Tisato
SUNDAY, 25 July 2021
TIME ZONE CONVERTER
Session Evaluation
14:15 - 14:45 UTC
End of Year Group Meeting
15:00- 19:30 UTC
Embodiment, Trauma, and Resiliency Day 2
The Biopsychosocial Model: How to center the body in processing individual and collective experience
A workshop with Margherita Tisato
19:30 - 19:45 UTC
Break
19:45 - 20:00 UTC
Closure: Processing and Perspective
WORKSHOPS
Embodiment, Trauma, and Resiliency
The Biopsychosocial Model: How to center the body in processing individual and collective experience
with Margherita Tisato
Saturday + Sunday, 24-25 July 2021
15:00 - 20:00 UTC
Both trauma and resiliency live in the body, and they become manifest in our individual embodiment. The biopsychosocial model points to the complexity and interconnectedness of our experiences and is the foundation for the discussion of physiological subjects such as neuroplasticity and epigenetics and how they affect the discourse around trauma, as well as learning; it also highlights the importance of open and non-judgemental conversation around the social context we live in as the terrain that we must start our work from.
Beginning with the anatomy and physiology of trauma in the individual, and moving into transgenerational and collective experiences, we center the body as our main resource to create deeply affective work in any modality we choose to dialogue in, allowing language to arise out of the field of aware movement.
A mix of lecture, discussion, and yoga-based physical practices of somatic inquiry, this course focuses on the somatic aspect of trauma, using the body as a laboratory to explore life choices as patterns of somatic memory, and to create skills to build and exercise agency, intentionality and change-making.