Circles Around Us: A Workshop for Duos

952 State Street,New Haven CT 06511

05 March, 2023

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Purchase one ticket per duo (two friends or two partners). Sliding scale based on need (Venmo @Raffa-Sin, or email [email protected] for questions). Financially Strapped Tier: $20 per duoLow Income Tier: $30 per duoAverage Income Tier: $40 per duoSupporter Tier: $50 per duo**** Please only reserve a spot for your duo on Eventbrite if you plan to venmo within 1 hour of ticket purchase or send a follow-up email to arrange compensation in another manner. No one is turned away for a lack of funds, please [email protected] if the cost of this workshop is an issue and we would be happy to accommodate your needs ****** Circles Around Us: New Horizons of Partnership & Friendship (a workshop for duos) What does it mean to meet someone you love with fresh eyes?How do our dynamics reflect our own histories?How do these histories interrelate and intertwine to construct the fabric & texture of our relationship?Informed by dance movement therapy, clinical psychology, meditation, and tantra, this unique workshop brings together duos across New Haven to explore the textures and horizons of companionship. Invite your (a) friend or (b) partner to a sensitive, somatic, and emotional evening at Gather East Rock. This workshop will use movement, breathwork, voice, & touch to pave new paths of togetherness. With guidance from two expert facilitators (Tula [she/they] & Raffaele [he/they]), duos will be venture into new styles of communication, physical attunement, co-regulation. Framework: For friends and/or partners (2 people)All relationship styles are welcome (queer, straight, monogamous, ENM, poly, friendship, hierarchical, non-heirarchy, etc.)Facilitators will create a space of non-judgement & curiosityAll exercises are propositions. We believe that each person is an expert of their own body, and thus our propositions can be accepted or changed to what a participant or a duo may need in a given moment. Facilitators will always allow for these changes and adjustments. Consensual interactions: All ways of engagement must be freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, specific. Facilitators: Tula & Raffa are partners who take great joy in co-creation & facilitation. They prioritise their capacities for softness and sensitivity all while being rooted in conviction and honesty. Tula (she/they) is a clinical psychologist, dance movement therapist (Moving Memory), and dance practicioner in Brussels, Belgium. They facilitate group therapy sessions, create dance pieces with sociocultural impoact, and maintain a private psychotherapy practice with systemic psychology, psychoanalytic, somatic & EMDR approaches. Find their website here. Raffa (he/they) is a meditation teacher at Yale University, where he facilitates group practices & discussions on love, compassion, Dharma, and climate-change. He is currently completing his Master’s degree in ecosystem conservation and environmental justice . Find his website here.