PRISM: Exploring relational edges through language, movement, and touch

Who do you become in relationship with different people? Let's take small yet meaningful risks for the purpose of growth and learning.
About this Event

You are light. As you move through others, what colors are revealed?
You are a prism. In what ways do you refract the light of others?

PRISM is a workshop for playing, moving, and exploring how our interactions with each other land in the nervous system. We’ll begin with an embodied warm-up, then move into touch and word-prompt exercises to notice how the body responds (or reacts) to the people around us. From there, we’ll build toward a game called “fooling,” in which each participant uses body and voice to engage with the room and report back on what they observe arising. We’ll create space to notice habitual responses, take interpersonal risks, and get curious about the many dimensions of ourselves that emerge when we allow ourselves to experiment beyond the familiar.

This workshop is for you if you’re curious about:
+ Who you become in relationship with different people
+ What your body knows before you have words for it
+ Trying on potent language that you don’t get to express in everyday life
+ How to move beyond familiar relational habits
+ Taking small yet meaningful risks for the purpose of growth and learning
+ Exploring touch, movement, language, and play as ways of relating

FACILITATORS:

is a psychologist in NYC. With PhDs in both literature and psychology, she has taught literature and writing at New York University and The New School. She is the founder of Radical Parts Work, a somatic group therapy that uses tools from improv acting and drama therapy to invite risk taking in relational intimacy. She is the author of A Life of One’s Own: A Guide to Better Living through the Work and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf (Penguin) and is trained in Ketamine Assisted therapy, Radical Aliveness, and Voice Dialogue, a form of parts work. Licensed in NY, CA and NM.
 is a NYC-based artist, educator, and Bessie Award–winning choreographer whose work explores absurdity, humor, vulnerability, and empathy. A Contact Improvisation practitioner and teacher for over 20 years, she specializes in touch and relational awareness. She is the creator of Restorative Contact, a mindful touch and movement practice, and co-authored “The Therapeutic Applications of Contact Improvisation,” published in Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 (Oxford University Press, 2024). She holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College and a Certificate in Restorative Justice Facilitation from the University of San Diego.