Biophilia, Value Formation, and the Art of Release with Amber McZeal
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Value Formation Sessions started with a question: so...what do you value, Self, and why? These questions emerged over the course of tending and deepening my own somatic liberation--undoing the myth of race embedded in my cells. Racialization is a value forming logic that has given shape and form to the robust North American capital project and beyond. This value forming logic is saturated with distortions to land, body, creative & life force. Fundamental to this distortion is the strategy of disconnection and rejection of interdependence.Value Formation Sessions are personal creative and embodied practices of transformation rooted in this notion of biophilia. Biophilia is an innate affinity for life and its living systems. And this affinity is based on a drive, a thrust that human beings possess to connect (merge) with All. Of. Life. An imperative or drive encoded in our biology/Body/Soma.This session explores biophilia through story, song, prose, and conversation.
Writer, vocalist, sacred scholar, and activist Amber McZeal utilizes sound therapy and guided somatic imagery to engage the knowledge of the body within an interactive and liberatory arts practice. Amber McZeal weaves together somatic practice with social justice and spirituality. Her approach centers imagination as foundational to movements to end oppression and create more humane social relationships. McZeal holds an MA degree in somatic depth psychology and is currently a doctoral candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
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