Body Wisdom: Anchoring Change Through Physical Awareness

🌿 Body Wisdom: Anchoring Change Through Physical Awareness 🌿

Join us for a transformative session that explores the practice of mindfulness of the body. This workshop is designed to help you develop a deeper connection with your physical sensations and signals, fostering a sense of grounding and clarity crucial for effective activism and leadership.

Key Learning Points:

1. Tuning into Physical Sensations: Learn how to use mindfulness to become more aware of your body’s signals and cues.
2. Embodied Presence: Understand the importance of embodied presence and how it supports your leadership and activism.
3. Practical Exercises: Engage in practical exercises to cultivate mindfulness of the body, improving grounding and focus.

Why Mindfulness?

At an individual level, mindfulness fosters self-awareness, illuminating personal privileges, biases, and societal conditioning. Simultaneously, at the collective level, it fosters solidarity and community, creating bonds beyond tangible connections. Mindfulness becomes a conduit for open dialogue, paving the way for addressing challenging issues and nurturing lasting societal transformations.

While mainstream society often commodifies mindfulness, portraying it as a means to navigate stress within existing systems, this narrative neglects its potential as a transformative agent. The rise of ‘McMindfulness’—a commodified, surface-level approach—underscores the importance of redirecting mindfulness towards societal transformation rather than just individual well-being. The call for mindful social movements to move beyond ‘McMindfulness’ invites collaboration, innovative approaches, and collective efforts to infuse mindfulness into the very core of social change initiatives.

About the Series:

This workshop is part of our free 10-part "Mindfulness for Changemakers" series, hosted by the School of Social Impact’s Tiyana J. This series is designed to provide you with a comprehensive toolkit of mindfulness practices specifically tailored for changemakers, equipping you with the strategies and insights needed to make a sustained and impactful difference in your work. Learn more about the series here, and how it’s part of the Humanitarian Changemakers Network’s commitment to the Inner Development Goals Framework.