Social field awareness is the only paddle or rudder available to the small boat [of our current situation] as it moves out… into the unknown.”
How do we return to the natural intelligence of our bodies to sense into the social field, in order to cultivate our relationships and our creativity to their true potential?
We are all social artists: every day, moment-to-moment, we co-create human society through our daily activities. In a world shaped by structural injustice, pandemic, climate change, and other symptoms of our current socioeconomic system, how can we uncover the brilliance of human wisdom, and be intentional about creating the future we want?
This month in the GAIA Journey, we focus our attention on practice. On March 4th, we will come together to learn with Arawana Hayashi, who originated Social Presencing Theater as a foundational practice of awareness-based systems change. Join us at 9:00am EST for a collective sensing experience, or at 12:00pm EST for a celebration of Arawana’s new book “Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move” and reflection on 15 years of practice.
Social Presencing Theater uses movement to elicit genuine insight into our own behavior, and into how groups shift from perpetuating stale relationship patterns toward becoming creative entities. It provokes reflection and learning. It makes visible the deeper patterns that support the cultivation of healthy social relations, sparking creative action in teams, organizations, and communities.
Session Two, 12 noon EST: Celebration and reflection with Practitioner Voices
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion and reflection on fifteen years of Social Presencing Theater to celebrate the launch of Arawana Hayashi’s new book, “Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a New Move” (PI Press, 2021). The discussion will feature practitioners Geovanny Guzman and Heather Huggins, who have been working with students at Queensborough CUNY, a community college in New York City; and Claudia Madrazo and Laura Pastorini, working with young people from the Mayan community of Izamal in Yucatán, Mexico, with the organization La Vaca Independiente.