Beginning to Remember: QTIBIPOC Embodiment Practice Series

A practical 3-part series for people who identify as QTIBIPOC, to introduce you to three embodiment practices, within a supportive community setting. Online on Zoom.

Week 1: Resourcing within our environment

Thursday 24^th April, 7pm – 8.20pm GMT

Week 2: PIE (Proprioception, Interoception, Exteroception)

Thursday 1^st May, 7pm – 8.20pm GMT

Week 3: Centering & Commitments

Thursday 8^th May, 7pm – 8.20pm GMT

You may enjoy this series if you:

• can access a sense of curiosity around sensations that arise in your body
• can be non-judgemental and compassionate towards thoughts and feelings as they emerge
• sense some nervousness around the idea of embodiment, and want to explore it at your own pace
• would like to access your felt sense and expand choice about how to respond within familiar situations
• want to explore embodiment within an intersectional space that honours your QTIBIPOC lived experience
• experience physical pain and/or identify as neurodivergent, and want simple practices that feel accessible
• enjoy the process of self-reflection and reflection with others
• feel able to be in choice about how you participate in the workshop

Please note, this is not a therapy space, and would not be suitable for you right now if you are experiencing mental health crisis or are looking for therapeutic support.

Structure for each session:

Intention - what we’ll practice together

Guided embodiment practice

Journal & reflect

Notice & name

Sharing insights and reflections as a group

Invitation into homeplay practice

Cost

This series is offered at a lower cost, £33 for the series, to honour the impact of systemic harm on people who identify as QTIBIPOC. If you would like to come along and this price is not accessible for you, please send me an email.

You might also like to know:

• QTIBIPOC-led and neurodivergent-led
• Designed to be accessible for neurodivergent people, and people who experience chronic pain in their body
• Maximum 10 participants
• Sessions take place on Zoom
  
• Closed captions are enabled
  
• To benefit from the community setting, you are encouraged to attend live if you can
• All 3 sessions will be recorded. Recordings will be sent out by email within 48 hours of the workshop
• Each part of the structure is optional - an invitation not an expectation
• No breakout rooms. Reflections and sharing will take place with the whole group
• A week before the first session, you will be emailed the Zoom link + a Workshop outline, which will contain the prompts for each session.

About the facilitator

dia (they/them), aka Everyday Writes, is an Embodied Transformation coach and writer, holding space at the intersection of somatic remembering, fugitivity, queerness, neurodivergence, disability & music on repeat.

The approach & lineage of this workshop

I came to intentional embodiment practice through physical pain, and seek to create embodiment offerings that feel accessible for all bodyminds. My approach to embodiment and to holding space is inspired by the lineages of generative somatics, Staci K Haines, The Embodiment Institute, Kai Cheng Thom, Lama Rod Owens, humanistic psychology, and ancestral wisdom.

Gathering Agreements

This is a co-created space to model the world we yearn to live in through practicing together. By participating in this series live or via replays, we agree to practice:

- Arriving and staying as our nuanced selves, being in choice throughout as to how/whether we participate

- Being with “what is here now” as it emerges

- Going gently, understanding that embodiment practice can be activating, and honouring our individual capacity and our edges

- Creating and allowing space & silence to feel into our bodies and process without urgency

- Inviting each other into consent, not making assumptions, and when sharing offering content warnings where necessary

- Relating to each other with respect, care, kindness and belonging, respecting confidentiality of each other’s shares and holding each other in our dignity

The ethos of Everyday Writes spaces

Everyday Writes spaces are anti-racist, anti-homophobic, QTIBIPOC-led, affirming of trans people and people of all genders, value the lived experience of all participants, and aim to be actively inclusive and accessible. Please only come along if you share these values.

Any questions before booking?

Email dia: info@everydaywrites.com

Join the waitlist

If the series is sold out and you would like to be added to the waiting list, please send me an email (info@everydaywrites.com), and I will let you know if a space becomes available and when the course runs again.