WINTER 2021 SKILL SET SCHEDULE
We're continuing to add workshops as times get confirmed with facilitators.
Friday January 8th, 2020
6PM-7PM Opening Ceremonies: Retreat kick off with an orientation on how the weekend will run and the platforms we are using, as well as time for introductions
7:00-9:00PM Workshop Slot 1: "Values Alignment & Learning in Public" with Genevieve Smith
-WHERE DO YOUR VALUES SHOW UP? We’ll explore where and how these values show up in all aspects of your lives—from walking down the street to how you shop to who you hire and what investments you make. What’s an example of when you made a decision rooted in values?
-WHERE ARE YOUR VALUES MISSING? Where in your life are your values missing from your activities? Why? In what ways? What’s an example of when you made a decision and it wasn’t rooted in values? How did that feel?
-HOW CAN YOU COME INTO ALIGNMENT? We’ll come up with an action plan to bring your activities in line with your values.
9PM Check-In: Each night you will have the opportunity to talk about your day/life with a smaller random group of participants. This group will stay the same throughout.
Late Night Hang: Unstructured time/space to connect with other participants.
Saturday January 9th, 2020
10AM-12:30PM Workshop Slot 2:
After Check-Ins: Late Night Hang
Sunday January 10th, 2020
10AM-1PM Workshop Slot 5: "Connecting to Self through the Body and Relationships: Embodied Awareness Practices" with Michelle Huber
Goals” with Robin Cornell
After Check-Ins: Late Night Hang
Monday January 11th, 2020
6PM-8PM Workshop Slot 7: "Free Your Voice" with Marisa Hope Benson
6PM-7PM Opening Ceremonies: Retreat kick off with an orientation on how the weekend will run and the platforms we are using, as well as time for introductions
7:00-9:00PM Workshop Slot 1: "Values Alignment & Learning in Public" with Genevieve Smith
- Workshop description: 2020 tested, inspired, and changed many of our values systems. What are those values? How do they show up in a concrete way? We tend to throw lofty, shiny words around to signal our values—but what do they mean? How do they show up (or not) in our everyday lives? Every interaction we have has the potential for impact—whether helpful or harmful. In other words, nothing is neutral. Our values show up in everything we do. If we’re not intentional, our values may be missing from our behavior. What’s more, someone else’s values—values that we’re not aligned with—may show up. Do your private and public conversations match? We’ll explore:
-WHERE DO YOUR VALUES SHOW UP? We’ll explore where and how these values show up in all aspects of your lives—from walking down the street to how you shop to who you hire and what investments you make. What’s an example of when you made a decision rooted in values?
-WHERE ARE YOUR VALUES MISSING? Where in your life are your values missing from your activities? Why? In what ways? What’s an example of when you made a decision and it wasn’t rooted in values? How did that feel?
-HOW CAN YOU COME INTO ALIGNMENT? We’ll come up with an action plan to bring your activities in line with your values.
9PM Check-In: Each night you will have the opportunity to talk about your day/life with a smaller random group of participants. This group will stay the same throughout.
Late Night Hang: Unstructured time/space to connect with other participants.
Saturday January 9th, 2020
10AM-12:30PM Workshop Slot 2:
- "Writing as Ritual: Cultivating Creativity in Chaotic Times" with Arya Samuelson
- Workshop description: “Make art in the face of f*ck” – Lidia Yuknavitch
How can we learn to trust our intuition as artists? How do we build a relationship with our creative practice as if it were a beloved (if wildly eccentric) friend? In the first part of this workshop, we will write through various “portals” (as an alternative to prompts) that will help you drop in your sensory and embodied self and unearth new stories. In the second part, we will discuss daily practices to integrate and sustain a creative practice, antidotes to challenges that may come up around creativity, and why art is a critical ally of activism. No previous writing or artistic experience is necessary.
- Workshop description: “Make art in the face of f*ck” – Lidia Yuknavitch
- "Self Offense: The Best Defense Is a Good Offense!" with Zelda Gay
- Workshop description: Design your Personal Protection Practice to keep you safe & sound in any situation. From the mundane to the sinister, in 3 hours you will gain the tools to come to your own rescue. Find out how to heighten your spatial and situational awareness, harness your natural protective instincts, create and recognize strong boundaries, discover your own personal protection superpower, and unleash your inner badass. Learn more about this workshop and the amazing people behind it at www.self-offense.com.
- Workshop description: I don’t think it’s controversial to say the world is f*cked up. But the question is, what do we do about it? This workshop is a space for us to seriously engage with what it would take to radically change the world, look at revolutions past and present, think about our material ties to the social order, and examine our resistances & fears. Let’s talk about the possibilities and power of collective action and get on the same page about building a new world!
After Check-Ins: Late Night Hang
Sunday January 10th, 2020
10AM-1PM Workshop Slot 5: "Connecting to Self through the Body and Relationships: Embodied Awareness Practices" with Michelle Huber
- Workshop description: In this two part workshop, Michelle will guide participants through extended practices to increase self connection, self-awareness and offer tools to take home to stay connected to yourself. The first part of the workshop will involve open time for writing, followed by a guided Awareness Through Movement ® Feldenkrais lesson. No experience necessary. The lesson will offer you the opportunity to slow down, feel yourself, notice your habits and you may feel a shift in whole being. The second part of the workshop will introduce participants to Circling practice. We will practice communicating what is happening in the present moment in a social context, attending to the connection with others and honoring our own individual processes. Again, no experience is necessary to join in these practices.
Goals” with Robin Cornell
- Workshop description: Does talking about money feel like opening a can of worms? Do you notice how spending is easy and saving is hard? This workshop is for you. We will discuss some basic money psychology and how to conceptualize financial goals. The first part of the workshop will consist of brief personal assessments and discussions on why talking about money is often so difficult, especially with family. The workshop is intended to demystify financial literacy while making money a less taboo subject. The second half will be focused on hard skills and understanding basic financial tools such as credit scores, compound interest and investing. This workshop is intended to offer an understanding of mainstream financial concepts while remaining critical of how money moves through our capitalist system. Ethics and personal values will be the lens through which we address and discuss these concepts. By the end of the workshop, you will have a stronger understanding of your relationship to money and specific skills you can use to make and reach financial goals.
After Check-Ins: Late Night Hang
Monday January 11th, 2020
6PM-8PM Workshop Slot 7: "Free Your Voice" with Marisa Hope Benson
- Workshop description: When was the last time you growled. Yes, GROWLED deep from your belly. When was the last time you let yourself moan, sing, pour sound into your life? Today? Yesterday? 6 months? 10 years ago? Never?! Do you know that when we shut our voices down, that energy gets trapped inside our bodies? Maybe you do know. But I’ve forgotten. A million times. So I’m telling you now. Telling myself. That your voice, is POWERFUL. It can transmute, transform, and translate the aliveness of your being straight into reality. Your voice is an instrument for wildness. For awakening. For change. And yet so many of us lay silent. Our voices buried beneath a pile of shoulds and only ifs. I say f*ck it. I will sing. I will yell. I will pour my voice out into the world because we need it. Join me as we explore the power of sound and song. We will be tapping into our voices as instruments of healing and transmitters of the divine. We will get into our bodies, explore emotions, welcome play and laughter, jump and sing and dance. If you are feeling overwhelmed, stuck in your head or just need some good fun join us! Our voices are so needed right now. Your voice is needed.