The Whole Body Experience Conference 2023

Schedule

Sat Jan 14 2023 at 09:00 am to 05:00 pm

Location

Mod Bettie Portrait Boutique | Grand Rapids, MI

During this one day event we will join together in community!
We will begin the New Year with a body celebration and not a diet!
About this Event

Come move and be moved!

During this day long event we will be in EXPERIENCE!

You'll love hearing from our speakers and workshop leaders, but your body will love and make memory of the EXPERIENCE!

You'll have opportunities to connect with community but also with experts in the body love world! You'll be able to process through art making and movement!

Meet yourself where you are, give diet culture the ?and celebrate the body you live in - then really LIVE!

During our time together you'll experience speakers, workshops that acknowledge the day to day struggles of bodily living, art, movement, lunch, vendors and SO MUCH MORE!

This whole body experience will connect community and you'll hear this:

"I've been there too."

Follow along on this journey to body celebration and advocacy for social justice.


What's included?

  • FREE parking in the city!!!
  • lunch
  • swag bag
  • 2 workshops and a keynote address
  • experiences that will move you
  • community support and connection

Breakout sessions will be offered on topics:

Loving your body in photos! Learn how to pose!

Find the clothes that feel and fit right for your unique body.

The body and SEX!

Finding and using your VOICE!

Movement experiences and more!



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During this one of a kind co-speaking event you'll hear the stories that will move your heart and mind.

You'll witness a LIVE body painting experience and hear about the healing experiences that happen when the body is invited into the process.

Kristen Zamora is a professional face and body painter, healing facilitator, and social activist. Kristen has worked on several independent films, theater performances and has had her work published in 7 magazines with the most recent being Bare Bones Magazine. Kristen is well known for her world wide healing body painting project Embodied-Healing Through Body Art. Embodied won Time-Based Visitor award at ArtPrize 2022.

Kristen believes in empowering women through their stories, the importance of getting back into your body and removing stigmas through art. Kristen uses the power of vulnerability to have hard conversations where conversations are needed.

Learn more about Kristen and her work here!


Jen Monroe is the founder and creator of Rising Strong Wellness.

When the body can be given a voice to express the stories that it holds, healing comes rushing in! Jen knows and believes that by creating intentional opportunities to invite the body into healing, you will witness powerful results of walking into wholeness. Jen approaches working with the body through a trauma informed lens and finds deep joy as others reclaim their power!

Jen is a somatic healing coach that works with those who are surviving and overcoming trauma to move into healing and wholeness. Her deepest commitment is to empower, inspire and allow you a brave space for healing.

Jen utilizes trauma sensitive yoga, somatic experiencing, CBT, breathwork. EFT tapping and many other mind- body based practices. Jen believes strongly in this work as a practitioner, but also as a survivor herself. She is deeply inspired to walk with others through their healing journey.

Her specialities are body image, trauma, grief, anger and addiction.

Learn more about Jen and her work here!



We are so grateful to our location host ModBettie Portraits.

We can't wait for you to experience this amazing space!

Learn more about ModBettie here!


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Where is it happening?

Mod Bettie Portrait Boutique, 1111 Godfrey Avenue Southwest, Grand Rapids, United States
Tickets

USD 0.00 to USD 150.00

Rising Strong Wellness LLC

Host or Publisher Rising Strong Wellness LLC

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