Me, Myself & I - Well Being Workshop Series

2424 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Street,Indianapolis IN 46208

05 December, 2021

Description

3 Series workshop exploring interpersonal relationships and how they connect w/our overall well-being. ME explores who we choose in our lives. In this workshop, we will discuss our partnership/companionship relationships and how they impact our lives. Rather than focus on the 'other half', we'll direct our attention at ourselves and the highs, lows, and lessons we gathered about ourselves in these relationships. Using the Black Light well-being, this workshop will use a few unique exercises that move both the mind and body towards finding information about self and learning how to use it to further our well-being. MYSELF explores how we came to be who we are, from inception. If you've ever heard "I'm your mother, not your friend", this workshop is for you. Black mothers and their Black daughters have long stood side by side in a complicated dance of love, misunderstanding, expectation, and oftentimes, trust issues. While every daughter hopes for a Claire Huxtable mom and every mom hopes for her own version of Superior Sandra, there's an unspoken line of mothers and daughters who are at each other's throats more often than not. What do these relationships teach us about ourselves? What do they teach us about befriending other women? In this workshop, we will talk about these complicated mother/daughter relationships and how they imparted wisdom (or lacktherof) for making and keeping friends, while seeing ourselves as an asset to others (or not). Again, using the Black Light workbook for Black well-being, we'll use unique exercises and dialogue to bond over self-discovery. AND I explores who we are when everyone has gone home. This is by far the most important workshop of the three as it explores our relationship with ourselves. If you've attended the other workshops, you've talked about companionship, friendship, and mothers. In this workshop, we'll talk about our relationship with ourselves. We'll create a map of ourselves that serves as a birds-eye snapshot for remembering who we are, what we've come from (and survived), and where we are going. Writer, Poet and small events curator.