PANEL DISCUSSION_ facilitators: Sarah J.Locke and Amelie Gaulier
Panelists: E.E Balcos, Nicole Bindler, Marta Eddy, Roxlyn Moret, Wendy Hambidge
In this conversation, panelists will share how they integrate BMC and social justice practices. Some questions to sit with: How do we experience and engage with concepts of “rejoining the circle” and “somatic agency” – as the BMC community, and as individuals with varying intersectional identities? Everyone has positionality and social location that influence how we see/hear and are seen/heard. How can we hold accountability, individually and collectively, for actively decentering whiteness, heteronormativity, ableism, and other ways we disconnect from our full humanity? The invitation is to engage with decolonial practices: noticing and questioning internalized assumptions, embodied stories, experiences of belonging and not-belonging. Can we inhabit different truths and inquire collectively about what kinds of social transformation we want to nurture? Let’s notice who sits in our circles and who isn’t present, in order to co-create a BMC culture that includes all who wish to engage.
Denison University
Granville, Ohio
June 22-26, 2022
Host: Gil Miller
REGISTRATION OPENS
February 15, 2022
June 22-26, Annual BMC® Conference
35th Annual Body-Mind Centering® Conference
Rejoining the Circle: Somatic Agency & Social Justice
IN PERSON & ON LINE
June 22-26, 2022, Denison University
95 presenters: workshops, performances, panels, presentations
Featured Presenters: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Bebe Miller