TRAININGS & RETREATS

We are excited to offer Intro to Politicized Somatics - an immersive four day training to support community builders in gaining nervous system regulation and skills.

We are hosting an INFO CALL for interested participants (not required to apply for the training) for you to meet us, your teachers and mentors, to share about this training and answer any of your questions on Saturday June 28th from 12pm-130pm PST.

This training is designed to support individuals engaged in frontline and change work and those with marginalized backgrounds/identities who want to take the healing practices back into their own communities to support collective nervous system healing. 

This is a beginner's course to somatic nervous system regulation practices.  No previous somatic or therapeutic training required to attend. In the future our collective will be offering more specialized trainings and this intro will be a requirement to attend some of our future offerings. It is a great way to step into the world of Politicized Somatics as well as find community that is engaged in similar work.

This four day training will provide a safe container for embodied somatic practice, to support expanding your capacity towards regulation and embodiment with the intention that these skills carry with you into your life, your families and your communities. We will be offering practices to teach you one-to-one somatically informed therapeutic techniques, how to hold space for trauma and an intro in working with the collective nervous system of groups.

This teaching will be under the framework of our four cornerstones: Resource, Resiliency, Capacity, and Sustainability. There will be time for learning, practice, demo’s and rest built into this time together.

• What might it look like to expand your thresholds for conflict, discomfort, and struggle?

• What might it look like to learn how to lean into pleasure and rest in a way that is radical in this era of dysregulation and institutionalized harm?

• What might it feel like to do the work you do in a way that is resourced, resilient, and sustainable, and offer that to others around you?

We are excited to bring this immersive four day training to support you in all of the work you do in the world.

We intend to hold a space where individuals regardless of identity and background feel safe, seen and heard. This of course, is nuanced and doesn't mean we will all agree on various things. We do acknowledge that the majority of the facilitation team is white-bodied. Part of the intention of this training is to shift that balance and make these skills more accessible to non-white folks so that others can become teachers, facilitators, and healers within this lineage and/or take these skills to their own communities.

We expect all participants to be committed to non-violent engagement, direct communication & care regarding disagreement. Homophobia, racism, transphobia, and discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. Our community agreements within the retreat will center open dialogue.

This training will run from approximately 9am-6pm over the course of four days with optional evening workshops from 730-9pm. Participants will be responsible for their own housing and for meals other than lunch. Lunch will be catered and provided on site.

The space we will be meeting is off Tanque Verde Road. It is a beautiful large and comfortable ranch home that has been generously offered for our training by folks in community. It is ADA accessible, offers a kitchen and several bathrooms, indoor and outdoor meeting space as well as a salt water pool participants are welcome to utilize. This space is located on the far east side of Tucson and will be mostly accessible via car, there is public transportation in Tucson although it will require about 30 minutes of walking in addition to public transit.

For folks coming in from out of town for this training, our coordination team will be happy to connect you to the local participants to help support you as you seek housing and ride shares for this training. If you are a local participant and you have a spare bedroom or couch to offer, please let us know if you would like to help house or offer rides to/from the trainings.

This will be a space for our mind and bodies to not only learn and grow but to decompress and feel in broader community.

The application is now live. If you have any questions before filling out an application, please feel free to contact us directly. Applications due August 1st and we will let you know of your acceptance or waitlisting by August 15th. There is space for up to 30 participants in this cohort.

Cost for this four day training is sliding scale $400-$2000. We are offering an expansive sliding scale as to make this accessible to all. Trainings of similar style typically cost the high end of our sliding scale and we recognize that that may be inaccessible to most folks. We encourage you to pay what you can in order to value this training, the skillset, the facilitators and also yourself.

Limited full and partial scholarships available for those that find the low end of the sliding scale inaccessible financially.  In an attempt towards transparency and equity in a time and culture that has gate kept and appropriated healing practices, folks indigenous to the lands of the Sonoran Desert and Black folks and then qt/BIPOC folks will be first considered for scholarship.

Any funds made from this retreat after costs are covered will be dispersed equitably to our facilitation team, as well as grow our scholarship fund for future offerings. We prioritize full transparency within our collective. Let us know if you have questions about how this money is being spent!

If you were not able to make our info call live for this training, you can watch a video found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f-HYDpvMFPjUWog-LzccfEjAFShTJley/view?usp=share_link