GRCGED and OPIRG Guelph invite you to the fourth workshop of the 2016 Summer Institute!
Thursday July 14, 5:30-8:30pm
University Centre (UC) 103, U of G campus
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Conflict is a fact of life. However, how can we better manage when we come into contact with opposing ideas and views? In traveling inward, participants will explore the role of self-awareness, meditation, liminal spaces and seeing conflict as opportunity for growth and expansion. Participants will be guided through exercises that enhance the ability to be aware of mental and emotional processes, while also understanding our inner conflict/balance is reflected in the external experience.
Facilitator: Sharrae Lyon
Sharrae Lyon is a transdisciplinary artist, film-maker, healer and facilitator who believes that science-fiction is a tool that can be utilized to project ourselves into new alternative futures that create opportunities to heal traumas of the past and present. She has facilitated workshops across Canada and the United States, including Detroit’s Allied Media Conference’s track “Liberation Technologies: Sci-Fi for World Building and Survival in the Post-Apocalyptic World. She is a healer who is interested in indigenous healing modalities including yoga, qi-gong, meditation and the chakra system in understanding how we can heal ourselves, our lives, minds and bodies outside of institutional medical practices that have been built and constructed by colonial systems. Through analyzing intellectually, emotionally and spirituality the impacts of colonization and slavery on the lives of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour, Sharrae is interested in how we can overturn history in the present moment by creating spaces and moments of healing and transformation that can be sustained and passed forward to future generations. Through indigenous wisdom traditions, which are grounded in the concept of interconnectedness, Sharrae believes we can realign with purpose, the Earth and Cosmo. Her work is an experiment to reclaim and ground knowledges that have been interwoven in her own bloodline and bone memory of African, South Asian and Carib descendent people.
** Please bring paper and a pen!
The Summer Institute is a series of workshops for the social justice and community-minded activist. This is our 10th year! Workshops will run from June 8 to July 20 and will focus on anti-oppression, allyship, self-care, conflict resolution, solidarity, and movement building.
Accessibility information:
– this workshop is FREE!
– The space is wheelchair accessible.
– There will be access to an accessible and gender-neutral washroom.
– Vegan and gluten-free snacks (but not a meal) will be provided – feel free to bring additional food for your break if you’d like. NOTE: There is no food available for purchase on campus at that time.
– Child care is available upon request with 48 hours notice. Babies are welcome in the workshop.
– Handouts can be made available in alternative formats with advance notice.
– Bus tickets will be available at the workshop.
– Unfortunately we cannot offer ASL interpretation but please get in touch to talk about how we can make the workshop accessible to you in other ways.
* Please help us to ensure a scent-reduced space. Perfumes, fragrances, scented products and cigarette smoke can be barriers for facilitators and participants. For more information on how to eliminate and reduce scents please see http://eastbaymeditation.
For information about the rest of this year’s Summer Institute please go to our Facebook page, email us at guelphsi@gmail.com or call GRCGED at 519.824.4120 x58559.