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"Without needing to work at it, you will be holding space differently"
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Dear Reader This is our last set of videos from the presenters at this year's Process Work Community Conference and goodness, they're incredible! Meredith Elton is a movement facilitator of many kinds, with a deep love for the natural world and collective expression - plus several decades of Process Work learning. As she cooks up her conference session, Moving the Field - Embodied Systems Transformation, Meredith shares, very personally, what movement can tell us about ourselves and our relationship with nature, what drew her to present at the conference, and a bit about what to expect from her session - fascinating watching! A few quotable moments: One of the key ways we might identify our cultural trouble is by how far away we push our feeling, our sensing, and our body experience. Inviting that experience into a more central position can be scary.
There are so many places in our lives that are verbal, and rational. Here’s an opportunity to show up and invite other ways of being with ourselves and others.
What an incredible opportunity to come together and be curious about moving and listening through our bodies into this moment that we’re all on earth together.
Without needing to work at it, you will be holding space differently for you, and therefore the people you go home to, the people you work with, and the people you love. In that spaciousness, that different quality of space or place or home in yourself, and then the home and holding you can extend and offer others without working at it, just by being you: it’s in that being, that a different way of being alive together can exist. That’s where the new world is!
Watch the videos and read all about Meredith's work (including a link to a video of one of her works, Lines in the Sand: (re)making contact, a creative and cultural grappling with what it means to be at home on Aboriginal land (Festival 2018 Commonwealth Games Cultural Program)), plus all the conference info here. warmly ANZPOP |
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