‘Gender & Joy’ with Kit Griffiths: a workshop for anyone with questions
Sunday 6th August, from 3.30 - 6.30pm @ Oast on Northdown Road
This 3-hour workshop centres self-care for all, with some focus on and discussion of genderqueer culture, using poetry, short film and interactive exercises. I strongly believe that we need non-judgemental shared spaces in order to empower ourselves and others to grow, so that’s what this is. Recommending LGBTQIA+ people to bring your straight friends!
The workshop has three main phases:
1. SELF CARE
Poetry and writing exercises around self care, because if you commit to filling
your own cup you will be less likely to feel affronted by others who are filling
theirs, and you will have more energy to offer when others ask you for change or
any other nourishing-yet-challenging work.
2. GENDER
Sharing our ‘Joy Pot’ which is a document that all workshop attendees are
invited to contribute to before attending (with a song, poem, quotation, film,
image that brings them joy) with observation of where gender ‘shows up’, and
then watching two contrasting gender-queer short films before opening the
floor for ‘Questions you think are too stupid to ask.’
3. AUTHENTIC PRESENCE
Active relating exercises in pairs, starting the work with bland, factual
statements to build authentic presence, and building up to authentic intimacy,
before an active relating group check-out.