*** CANCELED ***

We are so sorry to have to shift at the last moment, but due to unexpected circumstances we have to cancel tonight's session. Thank you for your understanding.

Relational Session

In this session, we will build relationships by practicing together, implementing what we learned at the previous session to cultivate embodied self-empathy and empathy.

About Beloved Community Well

Beloved Community Well is a weekly practice space to build skills and connections for people committed to justice, healing and wholeness. Each week we will rotate between workshop sessions where facilitators will offer content on topics relevant to nonviolent movement work and relational sessions where people can give and receive support. This project is a collaboration between East Point Peace Academy and the Necessary Trouble Collective.

We welcome everyone from around the world to participate in this weekly space and we have an intention to address the reality that BIPOC folx often feel isolated and alone in nonviolent movement spaces, so we will have affinity spaces each month where we hold separate break out groups for BIPOC identified folx and white identified folx. We hope you will join us in this experiment!!

Facilitators
 

laura ann coelho (she/they) identifies as queer, kid of immigrants from India and the Philippines, born a settler on stolen Ohlone land with class privilege. laura brings 10 years of experience in the fields of public health and community mental health, working with community-based nonprofits, grassroots organizations, and government agencies on program and evaluation design and implementation, facilitation and coaching, and fundraising. after experiencing a personal health scare in 2013, laura began consciously studying embodiment and healing arts. as an embodiment practitioner today, laura is committed to politicized healing with intergenerational immigrant and BIPOC communities. laura’s greatest joy these days is laughing with their two niblings.

Sarah Bunting (she/her) - is a white settler living on the lands of the Tiwa peoples in Albuquerque, NM. She’s studied communication, mediation, conflict transformation, restorative justice, nonviolence, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, and somatics. She believes in the wisdom of systems (whether of an individual or a group) to heal and transform, and that curiosity and presence support access to this inherent capacity. She’s in the process of becoming a therapist.

THIS EVENT IS OFFERED ON A GIFT ECONOMY BASIS. NO FEE IS REQUESTED, BUT DONATIONS TO EAST POINT PEACE ACADEMY IN SUPPORT OF OUR FACILITATORS ARE INVITED.

This event will happen virtually using the Zoom online conferencing platform. If you are not familiar with this platform, click here for instructions.