Culture, Context, and Binds: An Interactive Conversation Toward Decolonizing
Presented by:
Alyee Welch
Director, Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy
Description
This is not a top-down lecture; it is an invitation to come together and gently unpack and explore ingrained perspectives that cause harm to others and leave many behind; that thrive on exploitation and that force specific ways of being while denying the deeper truths of ourselves.
Topics to consider in advance of the event and for attendee discussion:
A conversation cannot be predicted. Attendees are invited to come having reflected on the following prompts and with a willingness to share:
• What is your cultural heritage, to what degree do you identify with it, and what conflicts do you carry around it?
• What role did people of your heritage play in imperialism, colonization, domination or oppression?
• What role did/does the government of the country in which you live play in imperialism? Colonization?
• What was happening in the world (not just your surroundings) from your prenatal time through age 6? How did these events affect your country, state, neighborhood, community, family/ parents?
• How does this contribute to your perspective of and interaction with social (political) hierarchies?
Learning Objectives:
To stimulate curiosity and care while moving towards:
- getting to know ourselves better in the context of unpacking whiteness, how and where it shows up, and it’s impact.
- inviting steps towards equity, inclusivity, and diversity which expands beyond man-made systems and into consideration of all of creation.
General Agenda
- Welcome
- USABP Announcements
- Facilitated exploration together
- Q & A
- Overtime discussion (after the event formally concludes)
About the Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy - Our Spotlight Event Partner
Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy is a part of the USABP's Educator Alliance. It offers a three-year training program which can be taken for both personal transformation and professional development. The program at SSBP incorporates the work of Wilhelm Reich and Core Energetics with contemporary therapies and Earth-based practices. With the understanding that pure life force emanates from the Core of every being and always remains intact, we study how to track the blocks that obscure it over time and through the life cycle. We learn techniques to free the expansive life energy in order to use it on behalf of our deeper life path and to reconnect with our joy. The result is as spiritual as it is psychological, opening our perception and that of those with whom we work, to the greater world around us as well as to our own unique offering. Read more
Your Instructor
Aylee Welch, LICSW is a master therapist and the Director of Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy. Her teaching and supervision emphasizes Core Energetics that incorporates contemporary neurobiology and trauma theory.
Course Curriculum
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