PHANG
Philly Here-and-Now Group
monthly (see days/times below)*
West Philly (address given upon registration)

PHANG is a monthly, experimental, in-person “Here-and-Now” group in which we explore what’s emerging among us for two hours once a month. Anywhere between 3 and 12 people will gather to mindfully explore through discussion, emotional and somatic exploration, movement, journaling, and meditation. The group will most closely resemble Psychodynamic Group Therapy, but this group is not therapy and the intent is community building and experimentation. The structure will riff on and borrow from practices including Tavistock Group Relations, Process Work, Authentic Movement, Authentic Relating, Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems, and Circling. You need not be familiar with any of these to participate, nor does the group require any special preparation.
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​When? See days/times below
Where? West Philadelphia, PA near 50th st and Osage Ave, exact address a day or two before
What’s the cost? $5 to participate, + $15 if you want pizza. Send these by Venmo @Netta-Sadovsky or Paypal nettatea@gmail by the Friday before the event to secure your spot and your pizza
How do I sign up? Fill out the form below for the dates you’re interested in, and send your fee by Venmo @Netta-Sadovsky or Paypal nettatea@gmail. Sign up AND pay by 5pm on the Friday before to secure your spot. 

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UPCOMING PHANGS

PHANG: Circling Some More
Sunday, February 2, 4-6pm
West Philly, near Osage and 50th St
This fall and winter, PHANG has centered around organic circling. Circling is a practice of observing what is happening in the here-and-now of our group, with a focus on somatic and emotional awareness. The practice can be thought of as a social meditation, with the subject matter of “what is happening now”—both for each of us individually and for the group as a whole. More information on circling here. I’m excited to open up another circling PHANG session for early February, and I hope you can join. More details and sign-up information here: Sunday February 2, 4-6pm*
* please note: because of some plans I have that night to see Jungwoong Kim at Studio 34 I'm going to skip the pizza this time. Join me for Jungwoong?

PHANG: SPACESHIP
Saturday, March 1, 12-3pm
West Philly, near Osage and 50th St
With Guest Facilitator, Spaceship inventor Ilana Simmons coming to us from NYC!
Spaceship is a relational game that uses sentence stems to blast a group off into outer space (i.e. strange and mysterious zones of connection). The game begins with a simple sentence stem “I want ____” as we go around in a circle and each person speaks aloud this sentence filling in the blank of what they want. Very quickly more sentence stems are added and you are invited to go into personas or speak with “honesty” to anyone in the circle. Eventually we find ourselves in a social setting where the rules of connection afford radical creativity and authenticity.
Sign up - Saturday March 1, 12-3pm*
* please note: because this is afternoon, we will skip the pizza. Also because we have a guest facilitator who will travel for this event, the suggested donation is $20 instead of $5

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FACILITATOR

Netta Sadovsky, MFA, LSW (she/they) is an artist and therapist living in Philadelphia, PA, and the assistant director at The Deep Play Institute (DPI). They provide individual and relationship therapy specializing in Internal Family Systems (IFS), working with kink, polyamory, the hardships of artmaking, and healing from relational trauma at West Philly Therapy Center. They also provide Psychedelic Psychotherapy at Voyage Healing in Philadelphia, with a specialty in using IFS with Ketamine Assisted Therapy. Netta is level 1 trained in Internal Family Systems, small group consultancy trained in Tavistock Group Relations, and is a student of Relational Psychodynamic Therapy, Mindful Facilitation, Theater of the Oppressed, and Psychodrama. They make artwork that borrows from and experiments with these practices under the moniker Suso Phizer.