April 2024: Anchor Workshop: Part 3 - The Edge of Your Desire + Your Imagination With Kai Cheng Thom
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Anchor Workshop: Part 3 - The Edge of Your Desire + Your Imagination With Kai Cheng Thom
Just below the surface of our collective consciousness lie the twin archetypes of Fear and Desire. The dominant colonial culture encourages - and often demands - the repression of desire, particularly for those of us with marginalized and oppressed identities. Yet desire is powerful and transformative, within desire lies our greatest potential. Black feminist, lesbian activist, and poet Audre Lorde wrote extensively on desire and the erotic as the key to revolutionary struggle. When we free our desires, our desires just might set us free.
In this third and final workshop in the Edge Play Series, we will use simple yet powerful creative and ritual practices to engage with visions of desire, pleasure, longing and liberation. Participants will be guided into an artistic and poetic process of tapping into and creating from the place of desire, followed by a practice of group creation and harvesting collective wisdom.
We will stay oriented to a framework of empowered choice, voice, and embodied consent as we explore this tender and evocative territory. Participants should come ready to receive invitations to explore their own desires as well to hear about the desires of others - this may include discussions of intimacy and sexuality, as well as other aspects of desire. The facilitators will encourage all participants to engage, set limits, and take breaks as needed.
When we make space to bring our desires together, who knows what we might create?
Kai Cheng Thom…is an author, community worker, somatic healer, lasagna lover, and wicked witch based in Toronto. She has spoken and published widely on the topics of trauma, transformative justice, and mental health. A former clinical social worker, Kai Cheng has also spent over a decade working in public sector mental health with LGBT youth and their families, an experience that continues to inform her work today. She is also the author of four award-winning books, including the Stonewall Award-winning essay collection I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE.
Kai Cheng Thom is an author, community worker, somatic healer, lasagna lover, and wicked witch based in Toronto. She has spoken and published widely on the topics of trauma, transformative justice, and mental health. A former clinical social worker, Kai Cheng has also spent over a decade working in public sector mental health with LGBT youth and their families, an experience that continues to inform her work today. She is also the author of four award-winning books, including the Stonewall Award-winning essay collection I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE.
