Writing Retreats & Workshops with Licia Sky
Welcome. Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, all workshops have become virtual.
The result has been increased accessibility and safe connection for participants.
The result has been increased accessibility and safe connection for participants.
LIMITED TO 40 PARTICIPANTS
How we experience our bodies impacts how we process sensations and memories, and also affects how we heal from traumatic events. Talk-oriented therapists may wonder how to introduce embodied awareness into work with clients. Join Licia Sky and learn to follow the rhythms—of breath, heartbeat, footsteps, vocal expression, gesture, and conversation—and come into synchrony—attunement, alignment, proximity, safety, engagement, meaning making, and play. Explore exercises that guide attention to nonverbal awareness of physical sensations, orientation, attraction, and our split-second impulses and unconscious choices about relevance and safety.
Our own body awareness is an important barometer to track the states of both our ourselves and the people we interact with. Explore the neurobiology of self-experience and how to develop a practice with these exercises. Based on the upcoming book, The Body Keeps the Score Workbook, this program offers an array of non-verbal, experiential exercises drawn from theater, guided focusing, dance, meditation, yoga, bodywork, and Embodied Voice.
Bessel van der Kolk joins the group in the morning for a discussion and overview of the neuroscience of embodied experience.
How we experience our bodies impacts how we process sensations and memories, and also affects how we heal from traumatic events. Talk-oriented therapists may wonder how to introduce embodied awareness into work with clients. Join Licia Sky and learn to follow the rhythms—of breath, heartbeat, footsteps, vocal expression, gesture, and conversation—and come into synchrony—attunement, alignment, proximity, safety, engagement, meaning making, and play. Explore exercises that guide attention to nonverbal awareness of physical sensations, orientation, attraction, and our split-second impulses and unconscious choices about relevance and safety.
Our own body awareness is an important barometer to track the states of both our ourselves and the people we interact with. Explore the neurobiology of self-experience and how to develop a practice with these exercises. Based on the upcoming book, The Body Keeps the Score Workbook, this program offers an array of non-verbal, experiential exercises drawn from theater, guided focusing, dance, meditation, yoga, bodywork, and Embodied Voice.
Bessel van der Kolk joins the group in the morning for a discussion and overview of the neuroscience of embodied experience.
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Experiential Psychodrama Workshop
with Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky |
In this intensive workshop we explore the capacity of psychodramatic experience to restructure people’s internal maps of their relationship to themselves and the world around them.
Using meditation, movement, and theatrical training techniques, we explore embodiment, physical synchrony and interpersonal rhythms, that will be used to assist participants to create “structures” to re-script their internal maps of themselves in relationship to the world around them. The technique is described in detail in Chapter 18 of The Body keeps the Score.
Using Psycho-dramatic Structures we create three-dimensional representations of past family constellations and create new possibilities and memories.
Using meditation, movement, and theatrical training techniques, we explore embodiment, physical synchrony and interpersonal rhythms, that will be used to assist participants to create “structures” to re-script their internal maps of themselves in relationship to the world around them. The technique is described in detail in Chapter 18 of The Body keeps the Score.
Using Psycho-dramatic Structures we create three-dimensional representations of past family constellations and create new possibilities and memories.
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Songwriting and Embodied Voice
"From Licia Sky, I learned how a free write becomes a song, and for a half-dozen people she made shaping lines, finding intent and emotional chords, look like kid's play. She is an elegant, expressive woman who plays like a child herself, with her art, and invites us to do so with ours. And she's sly and funny. Combined with her plain spoken honesty about abuse and self-empowerment, her presence compels us to reveal and revel, all at once." -- Student in the Embodied Voice Workshop at the Garrison Institute |
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Come explore with me.
Songwriting and Embodied Voice Explore your voice. Find your songs. --Songs for self-discovery and self-expression --Songs for connection and community --Songs for healing, songs for energizing --Songs for soothing, songs for work, and songs for play. |
Through play, speed-free-writing, meditation, singing, toning, and movement, we will find our way to meaningful words, melodies, and songs.
Bring your speaking voice and your curiosity. Musical instruments optional. |
In this two day workshop we will explore how to:
- Let curiosity guide your creative exploration
- Bypass inner critics and access the flow of free association of your subconscious mind
- Follow emotional sensations and identify how they affect your voice
- Identify biorhythms and how they affect connection and communication
- Follow biorhythms and the rhythm, phrasing, and prosody of your speaking voice
to find the music and melody within your writing - Find a “hook” from a free-write,
and use the rhythm of repetition to make a refrain - Explore how to sing your songs once you write them
Advice for Perfectionists
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Blog from a 2018
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