Speak Your Body Out Festival
Neurodiversities & Intimacy
with Almu, Cecile, Jenny & Michelle
What happens when we cannot "say what we feel"?
Do we even know how to listen to, and to name our own feelings, desires and needs?
In this three day festival, we will explore what our bodies say to ourselves and to others.
We will work with theoretical and practical tools, techniques and ideas to bring into awareness our personal and collective communication habits. We will play with embodied practices to develop an awareness of our nervous systems, how to regulate and communicate with others about them, articulating a specific language around boundaries, consent and intimacy.
We aim to create a trauma-informed container for vulnerabilities, shared experiences, expertise and knowledge.
Topics we wish to explore and tackle:
aware and compassionate listening to oneself and others, thoughts vs feelings, dealing with vulnerable states of self and others, emotional literacy / alexithymia, non-violent communication, miscommunication / mismatched needs, family & societal narratives, communication around sexualities…
It will be a place for collective research and celebration of *all* brains and bodies that exist!
People of *all* sexual orientations, genders and backgrounds are welcome!
Talks and workshops will mostly happen in English, maybe some in German.
They will be held separately from each other, so it will be possible to attend single sessions.
The programme of specific workshops, talks and topics will be announced in May!
Who are we?
The organizers of this event are very close friends from different backgrounds, socialized as women and identifying as queer - who actively question the communication patterns we grew up with. Our desire to communicate better with ourselves and friends, lovers and families about how our bodies respond to boundaries being non-consensually crossed and about the trauma responses these crossed boundaries prompt, brought us to imagine a new creative time & space to share and explore experiences, theories and practices on these important themes.
This weekend will take the form of a festival - we aim to address this topic in an empowering and playful way!
We held the CONSENT&FREEZE festival last year at IKSK - this festival will be held in a similar but different way :)
More infos TBA!
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