Description
Instinct #20 | Beyond Overwhelm | Somatic tools for shifting from individual struggle to a collective one
Workshop with Lo Höckner
Beyond Overwhelm relates to embodied learning circles with clear links to social change, aiming to practice together and empower their members to gain agency and take action. This workshop deliberately addresses the body and practicing together as a collective political practice, accessing the collective wisdom of a group.
In this workshop, we are going to explore how working cultures under capitalism are creating a sense of overwhelm in our nervous systems, and furthermore, how we can cultivate embodied resistance. The session offers tools for coming out of overwhelm as a foundation for building relational strategies and counteracting individualization; exploring why this is necessary for political agency while refraiming activism.
Through body-based practices, collective inquiry and imagination, this workshop gives space to explore the participant’s lived environment and how practices of connection, care and existing otherwise could be brought into it.
Lo Höckner (they/them) is a choreographer, performer, and somatic practitioner interested in the body’s transformative potential through new relations. They initiated the Embodied Social Justice Learning Circle and work with Somatic Experiencing® and Pantarei. Their practice spans expanded choreography, community-building through dance, somatic as well as artificial intelligences, site-specific explorations, and connecting art, healing practices and activism.General Information:
Language: This event will take place in English depending of the need of the group
Registration: This event has limited spots available. Registration through our website is therefore required.
Cost: Free with registration.
** The workshop is part of the exhibition Instinct #20. Full program: www.instinct.berlin.
**This event is part of our queer connect program, supported by Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin.
