SOWING SOMATIC SEEDS:
AN EMBODIED EQUITY RETREAT
BENT BIRCH RETREAT CENTER, LEYDEN, MA
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
- SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2023
Are you on an self-healing and wellness journey and looking to deepen your exploration?
This three-day group retreat centers the healing of BIPOC artists and creatives. It combines intentional affinity space & embodied exercises in order to facilitate somatic awareness, openings and transformation for healing and liberation.
If you are ready to examine your embodied racialization and emerge ready to express yourself more fully, please join us.
Space IS LIMITED!
Sliding scale workshop series for Black, Brown, & Indigenous Creatives
Donations accepted to defray some costs
Applications due March 24th, 2023
Notifications: March 31st, 2023
Virtual Sessions
Orientation: April 14th, 4-6pm
Closing: April 28th, 4-6pm
Supported by
The Mayor of Boston’s Office of Arts & Culture
PAYMENT/DONATION
FACILITATOR
D. Farai Williams
D. Farai Williams is an embodied antiracist facilitator & cultural organizer, educator, creative activist and performing artist. Farai is the founder & lead embodied antiracist facilitator, educator and strategist for Dynamizing Equity™. With a deep curiosity in nervous system-responsive self care, Farai invites participants to create more mental, physical, spiritual, internal space while employing a variety of cultural, somatic and historical learning prompts, to de-mechanize the body by awakening their inner experiences and encouraging the positive release of stored information. Having developed a four part module system, Dyneq™, participants practice revealing, feeling, healing and dealing with internalized racialization and building capacity to embody their truth with dignity. Farai’s background in anti-racist cultural organizing and social equity work brings an understanding of power and privilege to her facilitation. Therapeutic in nature, she boldly holds authentic and compassionate space for people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. She also currently serves as Program Director for the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI). Nationally, she is a trainer with the People's Institute for Survival & Beyond (PISAB) and Center for Story-based Strategy (CSS) and has worked with leaders, educators, social workers on school and organizational transformation. Farai is a member-facilitator with Parcon Resilience and the School Reform Initiative (SRI) as well as, faculty-facilitator with the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Centers’, Racial Reconciliation & Healing Project.