March 2024: Anchor Workshop: Part 2 - Expanding our Window of Transformation With Kai Cheng Thom

Anchor Workshop: Part 2 - Expanding our Window of Transformation With Kai Cheng Thom

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What hidden treasures gleam at the edge of our embodied comfort zones? What strengths, talents, and wisdoms can we come to know by dancing with our shadow selves? In this second workshop in the Edge Play Series, we will explore somatic movement and dramatic play as portals that can allow us to enter our personal edges and make contact with repressed or forgotten aspects of ourselves.  Together, we will cultivate a loving and supportive environment where imperfection and failure become our friends in the journey towards growth and the care-filled expansion of our somatic “Window of Transformation.”

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‍Participants will be invited to try out a range of playful exercises involving movement, imagination, and roleplay. All exercises will be optional and there will be a range of engagement opportunities that allow for  a wide range of comfort levels, including personal experimentation without any witnesses, small group practices, and performance in front of the whole group. We are encouraging an environment of empowered choice, where any activity can be experimented with, declined, started and stopped at any time.

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‍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.