Community Circle Workshop

Purpose: to provide a space for community building practices through self expression, play, and connection.

Reason: many people crave community but it is hard to find and build alone, many need practice creating authentic connections.

First, a community needs a shared experience. Something positive, something expected, and safe. Think of a concert, a class, work, grocery stores; these are collective experiences. The first week of this workshop will be a breathwork, sound circle, and guided visualization experience. There's plenty of research about how those things are good for your brain and body. This is not a workshop for why, it is a place to be held accountable in practicing it. This will give attendees breathing, chanting, and visualizing techniques they can use at home for their own benefit. Sharing this experience together will be the basis for the following weeks of community building

Second, communities sprout and bond when they face risk together. Think surviving any hardship, think corporate project, think starting a band, having kids at the same time. This workshop will invite the community to be challenged and face risks together through improv theater games. A class to get your brain thinking in new ways, use your body for new expressions, feel fear, face it, laugh, play pretend, be in joy. We will also incorporate some singing, to add to the vulnerability of it all. This vulnerability and support of each other helps communities bond. 

Finally, communities grow and root through connection, truth, and closure. The final day of this community circle will provide space for meaningful connections and in depth conversations. Building a sense of closeness like staying up all night around the fire while camping, like kids at a sleepover. This will be a night of sharing through thought prompts and conversation games, in partners and in a group. 

Through these practices attendees can walk away with a renewed sense of human connectivity.

Host or Publisher Brain and Body Music Studio