Initiate Connection

Day Workshop

Where: Motueka, Riverside Hall

When: Saturday 3 June 2023, 10am – 5pm

Facilitator: Sybille Biedert

Investment: $90 - 120

Signup: register

Description

Initiate Connection is a day workshop that encourages participants to step out of their comfort zone and aims to empower them with clarity and consent to dance with more authentic connection.

The workshop incorporates Possibility Management and Open Floor movement practice.

Throughout the day, we will move with conscious consent, learn how to communicate "yes" and "no" through movement, how to move into and out of dances, how to identify personal boundaries, and how to hold space for our own fear of connection. Participants will also learn how to become available for connection and how to initiate it.

To create a safe space for yourself beyond the workshop, we also open the space to bring working with feelings into day to day life, to be empowered to listen deeper.

The two intentions of this workshop are to practice availability through dance - becoming open to what life has to offer and creating connections with others.

The second goal is to create opportunities to participate in Contact Improvisation Dance or other movement spaces. In the past, due to a lack of confidence, fears of connection, being seen, feeling vulnerable, making mistakes, or being rejected, these opportunities may have been avoided.

Sybille will incorporate conscious anger work to bring centered, grounded, and clear possibilities from her experience as a Rage Club space holder, while Ben will share his expertise in somatic inquiry, movement meditation, and passion for contact improvisation dance and movement therapy.