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REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED! Hosted by Education for Racial Equity.
In the face of compounding historical and present-day traumas, environmental collapse, and chronic uncertainty, we know as a species that we need something radically different, yet, many of us feel the pain of not knowing where to begin. In nature, we find the ultimate creative force. Her powerful teachings serve our awakening towards something beyond the catastrophic urgencies of the now. This course will explore and exercise our creative muscle to strengthen our visionary selves. In this time of deep injustice and collapse on multiple social and ecological fronts, this course explores what is being asked of us, with all of our intersectional identities and diverse lived experiences. When we encounter and encourage the wild dance of the artist within, the imaginary self becomes part of the visionary collective needed for these times.
During our six months together, we will work with our bodies through what Alixa García calls Creativity Infused Somatic Practices to help move trauma through the body by consciously activating our relationship with nature and the creative force. The course explores intersectional equity through the lens of the imaginal and our interrelatedness with the Earth. We will sit with grief as ceremony; coax the artist within; exercise and play with our intuitive body so that we may readily access intuition and come to trust it; visit ancestral, present, and future selves; recenter the Earth and bring into focus our cosmic responsibility; activate enchantment in times of collapse. By centralizing art and creative writing as political and spiritual practices, we will reintegrate creativity as the means by which we commune.
“After decades of doing anti-racist work, Alixa's course showed me how to enter entirely new creative, imaginal dimensions of self, community, and spirit.” - 2022 participant
When we create with intention, our creations become the invocation, and the space inside and between us becomes the sanctuary. In the heart of the 6th mass extinction, how do we awaken the Imaginal within? Come, let us sit together in circles of wonder and creative devotion in this 3-month journey.
*This course engages in a Solidarity Economy model and cycles back 50% of tuition after production expenses to those on the frontlines doing crucial healing work with the Earth. Because of last year’s course, and with the incredible match by Education For Racial Equity’s distribution fund, we were able to send $45K to three incredible Indigenous women and youth-led organizations in the Ecuadorian Amazon and La Guajira, Colombia. Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuú (Colombia), Mujeres Amazónicas (Ecuador), Jovenes en Defensa de la Amazonia (Ecuador).
SESSIONS
Jan 13 | Session 1
An Invitation to Fail: Coaxing the Artist Within
Jan 14 | Session 2
The Imaginal: Making a Home For Intuition & Soul Commitments
Jan 28 | Session 3
Ancestral Tending I
Feb 11 | Session 4
Ancestral Tending II
Feb 25| Session 5
Trauma as the Doorway
March 10 | Session 6
Grief as Ceremony
March 17 | Session 7
Enchantment: The Chant Within
April 7 | Session 8
Trickster Trickster
April 21 | Session 9
Creating Spirit Cards I
May 5 | Session 10
Creating Spirit Cards II
May 19 | Session 11
Visionary Futures I
June 2 | Session 12
Visionary futures II
June 16| Session 13
The Unfolding