A 2 part somatic workshop for creatives exploring a new relationship to time, utilizing movement, visual art, writing, and dialogue.
Facilitated by Madison Mae Parker
THE WHATS:
We all live within a structure of time, both natural and human made. The sun and moon exist. There are seasons and weather shifts. Tides and oceans. And there is the clock, the calendar, both a mix of human construction and based off nature and stars.
As creatives, as humans, there is often a tension around our productivity::: When should we be working? How often? How long? How many pieces should I be making? When do I know when a piece is finished? Am I too old to start over as a creative? Am I too young to be taken seriously? I don't have enough time to pursue my creative imagings because X.
And so on, and so forth. I am sure we could all enter in our own questions, anxieties, and fears around this.
But what if we slowed down enough to explore our relationship to bodily time?
What might the body have to say about speed, energy, rest, and time?
This 2 part workshop will be a space to just begin to explore these questions. It will not be the end-all, be-all of these questions (nor should there ever be), but an open door to allow your own creative intuition to spring forth, and perhaps allow a new way of creating to make itself known to you.
This workshop will utilize some of the following:
personal mythology exploration
journaling + writing exercises
visual art making
guided movement and somatic explorations
creative prompts
readings
group conversations
with the potential for partner work
Sept 23rd :::
This session will be exploring our current relationship to time through the personal and collective.
Some of the questions we will be investigating::::
What societal language do we have around time/clocks? What is our relationship to age, to abilities and disabilites, to death and the dying? How is time tied into production, the American Myth, and capitalism? And how have all these things come to live inside of me?
How might I perpetuate them?
Sept 30th :::
This session will be exploring a new relationship to time - considering bodily time, land time, spirit time.
Allowing ourselves to be present to where we are and the histories (both our own, our culture and country, and ancesteral) that live within us, how might we move foward into new ways of inhabiting time? What can we learn from our own body? The collective body? What does nature and land have to teach us of time? What does spirit and ancestors have to share with us?
Week of October 12th :::
There will be an additional Show+Tell Scheduled with the cohort sometime the week of October 12th. This Show+Tell will be a space to honor what has emerged in us and allow for a guided conversation to continue beyond the space of the workshop itself.
This Show + Tell might be expressed through conversation, art, ritual, performance, something else entirely, or truly a show and tell! The cohort will decide, together, if this will be public (open to all people), private (only for the class), or semi-private (each participant invites 2-3 people to join our conversation).
ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
You will get an email a week before the event with details and more! There will be some loose homework assignments between week 1 and week 2 session, such as a short reading, some journal and creative prompts, and general musings to hold onto. You won't be checked or graded on this, but it will benefit not only your time, but the larger group conversation.
If you are unable to come to both sessions, please email madisonmaeparker@gmail.com and perhaps we can sort something out! :)