Workshop: Making the Unconscious Conscious in anti-racism work with Jane Clapp

About our workshop with JaneBuilding up capacity in our nervous systems to sit with discomfort and activation is essential for the process of making the unconscious conscious. Through an allyship lens, Jane will present tools and resources to consider how we can use the intelligence of our bodies to wake up to the unconscious ways racism and oppression needs to be dismantled in each of us. This is an opportunity to take habitual trauma responses around freeze, collapse or flight and more skillfully embrace activation to mobilize our inner and outer resources for change. First, through a reclamation of embodied dignity as a basic human right and then building into the essential practice around making friends with embodied anger. When we learn to avoid toxic regulation and reflexive comfort seeking in our nervous systems, we can sit with activation long enough to have our unconscious material, as held in the body, speak to us and provide knowledge as to what our personal inner and outer work might become on this lifelong journey of making the unconscious using this moment in time as a gateway to waking up. About Jane Jane Clapp is a social justice warrior, ally in anti-racism work, and a mindful strength and movement coach, trauma-informed embodied resilience educator, and Jungian analyst in training. As an expert educator and mentor, internationally recognized speaker, author, and media consultant, Jane takes an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond mindfulness, to enmesh each client’s physical condition with the psychological and emotional aspects of their selves.After more than two decades in the health industry—and through extensive personal and professional exploration—Jane has shaped a multifaceted practice that weaves together a variety of movement and therapeutic paradigms into a fluid yet practical and effective methodology. Riffing off of a biopsychosocial model, Jane considers the body and movement as some of the most powerful alchemic tools for shaping the mind and believes that, with enough support and resourcing, each of us has the power to free ourselves from the shackles of past struggles, traumas and health issues that limit both our recovery process and our potential to lead happy and bountiful lives.With training and experience in a wide range of wellness modalities—including mindfulness-based stress reduction, master-level Reiki training, ELDOA Method, Tensegrity Touch Therapy, yoga, pre- and post-natal fitness and personal training, as well as Torture, Trauma Psychosocial Impact & Mental Health from the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture—Jane works to create safe spaces for people to show up, be seen and share their authentic, courageous selves in all their messy glory and complexity. Whether in person at her private studio in Toronto, Canada, in private Skype sessions, in one of the many webinars or workshops she hosts for clients around the world, or in her daily social media posts, Jane offers coaching, education and mentorship based in tried-and-true methodologies that are, at the same time, attuned to each person’s level of physical and emotional capabilities. Her goal: To help people cultivate a deeply felt sense of resilience and empowerment, so they can gain more freedom and joy in their lives.