RESET / RECESS
August 6th-7th 2022 Philadelphia PA
|
Join The Deep Play Institute for a sensorial and relational weekend R*E*S*E*T. As we return to shared physical space, how are we leveraging the increased richness and interactivity of our environments and senses? What identities and relations are we bringing to our encounters? Could they be re-envisioned and improvised towards more playful, nourishing, and mutually liberating forms?
This weekend intensive is not the relaxing retreat of a lush spa day but an active re-calibration inside a soft blank matrix. We’ll come together in a giant empty container to experiment with ways we relate to space, sound, smell, touch, time, and sociality. We will engage in iterative exercises and games to help us question and reinvent our ways of being within and between our bodies. Our “interfaces” will be movement, emptiness, trust, caution, voice, story, sound, darkness, attention, focus. Our facilitators will draw on their experience in: Internal Family Systems, Contact Improvisation, Circling, Authentic Relating, Nonviolent Communication, Psychodrama, Theater of the Oppressed, Existential Games, Somatic Awareness, Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore and Pauline Oliveros's deep listening. Sample activities: exploring the space blindfolded, psychodrama vignettes, mapping parts of self, mythic imagining, napping, chanting, humming, collective dreaming, sharing weight very slowly, role play, chance procedures, grounding practices. |
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Dates: Saturday Aug 6th & Sunday Aug 7th.
Place: Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia PA (1400 N American St)
Price: Our program is tiered based on 3 income levels. Tier 1 $270. Tier 2 $185. Tier 3 $100. BIPOC Tier 3. Please see chart for more info.
Breaks & Meals: Meal breaks are scheduled into the day for both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday participants can find a local restaurant to get food for lunch or pack their own lunch. On Sunday we are asking participants to bring their own lunch as we will transition immediately from activities to a meditation and debrief over lunch.
Covid Policy: Participants will be required to take an at-home antigen test the morning of the event, and arrive to the workshop with a negative test. If any participant develops symptoms throughout the workshop they will need to re-test. Masks will be required for proximity-based activities, so participants are required to bring a mask that will be used for these sections of the event. Given Covid's constant ebb and flow these policies may change and we will update participants as to this change if it occurs.
Accessibility: The IceBox Project Space is a wheelchair accessible space with a ramp at the main entrance.
Max Number of Participants: Participation is limited to 18 so sign up soon if you are interested!
Dates: Saturday Aug 6th & Sunday Aug 7th.
Place: Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia PA (1400 N American St)
Price: Our program is tiered based on 3 income levels. Tier 1 $270. Tier 2 $185. Tier 3 $100. BIPOC Tier 3. Please see chart for more info.
Breaks & Meals: Meal breaks are scheduled into the day for both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday participants can find a local restaurant to get food for lunch or pack their own lunch. On Sunday we are asking participants to bring their own lunch as we will transition immediately from activities to a meditation and debrief over lunch.
Covid Policy: Participants will be required to take an at-home antigen test the morning of the event, and arrive to the workshop with a negative test. If any participant develops symptoms throughout the workshop they will need to re-test. Masks will be required for proximity-based activities, so participants are required to bring a mask that will be used for these sections of the event. Given Covid's constant ebb and flow these policies may change and we will update participants as to this change if it occurs.
Accessibility: The IceBox Project Space is a wheelchair accessible space with a ramp at the main entrance.
Max Number of Participants: Participation is limited to 18 so sign up soon if you are interested!
SCHEDULE
SATURDAY AUG 6TH
10:00am Arrival
10:30-1:30pm BLOCK 1
1:30am-3:00pm Lunch Break
3:00-6:00pm BLOCK 2
SUNDAY AUG 7TH
10:00am Arrival
10:30-1:30pm BLOCK 3
1:30-3:00pm lunch + meditation + debrief
SATURDAY AUG 6TH
10:00am Arrival
10:30-1:30pm BLOCK 1
1:30am-3:00pm Lunch Break
3:00-6:00pm BLOCK 2
SUNDAY AUG 7TH
10:00am Arrival
10:30-1:30pm BLOCK 3
1:30-3:00pm lunch + meditation + debrief
FACILITATORS
The Deep Play Institute's Team Members are deep play professionals responsible for curating innovative content and programming
|
Aaron Finbloom is a philosopher, artist and pedagogue. He is the co-founder of The School of Making Thinking (SMT) and the founder & director of The Deep Play Institute (DPI). His practice involves expanding transformative inquiry through games, performance art and structured play. With training in Circling, Authentic Relating, and Psychodrama, he also facilitates experimental individual and group sessions inspired by these practices. Finbloom has presented works internationally at venues which include: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Gallery 151 (New York), Maschinenhaus Kulturbrauerei (Berlin), UNAM (Mexico City), and MainLine Theatre (Montreal). He holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities & Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, and is currently teaching Philosophy at the City College of New York and The University of Portland. finblooming.com
|
|
Natalia Stroika (she/her +/-) is an Existential Game Maker/Destroyer. She is the creator of Ludic Liberation, a practice of collective play aimed at revealing & releasing our internalized limitations. You can read more about the Ludic Liberation philosophy at www.ludicliberation.com, join a monthly Ludic Liberation Lab to help R&D new liberatory game mechanics, read The Lab Report of past experimental results and existential game theory, or work with Natalia directly on tuning up or redesigning your Personal Existential Game (PEG). Natalia has a Doctorate in Learning Sciences and training in Transformational Social Therapy and the Warm Data Lab process. Natalia lives in so-called South Philadelphia and as mummer with the Vaudevillains New Years Brigade, she has been a hoagie, a tree, a rainbow, a butterfly, a feral cat mother, a fish, a planet, and a pterodactyl.
|
|
Netta Sadovsky, MFA, LSW (she or they) is an artist and therapist living in Philadelphia, PA. She provides group and individual counseling specializing in alternative sexualities and relationship structures at West Philly Therapy Center, and is a teaching artist at Center for Creative Works. Netta is a student of Internal Family Systems, Tavistock Group Relations, Relational Psychodynamic Therapy, Mindful Facilitation, Theater of the Oppressed, and Psychodrama, and makes artwork that borrows from and experiments with these practices under the moniker Suso Phizer.
|
|
Sarah Ledbetter is a dancing writer and a body-based psychotherapist whose work has been presented or published nationally and internationally at such cool spots and publications as the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Film, the Berlin Black Film Festival, Earthdance E|Merge Interdisciplinary Arts Residency, the Body Mind Centering Conference, floromancy, Fourth River, Right Hand Pointing, and R and R Literary Magazine. Her main interest is how the fiesta of being in a body flows reciprocally into creative, social, site-specific, and therapeutic process. She is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee and Skull Valley, Arizona where her body-based creative and psychotherapeutic practice is anchored and winged.
|