In April I am excited to be working with the Center for Refugees and Immigrants of Tennessee for their after-school program R.I.S.E. (Refugee and Immigrant Students Empowered). Over the course of a week I’ll introduce middle school refugee students to dance and choreographic composition fundamentals, we will reflect on our personal and communal identities, explore writing identity poems, and then create a short dance and spoken word piece expressing individual and community characteristics. This process mirrors a longer process I am undertaking in a social justice dance/narrative project on immigration. Many thanks to the Metro Arts Commission for helping make these residencies possible.

Two-hour to full-day creative process, personal growth workshops can be designed for your organization as a public or private offering. I am also available to integrate workshops into yoga or other spiritual or therapeutic retreats. Movement, creative writing and visual play is a powerful combination for actively reflecting upon, uncovering and embodying personal truths, and creating a vision to move forward. Participants are gently guided through a process of reflection, sharing, journaling and movement exploration in these workshops. Topics may include balance and centering, boundaries, re-igniting creative and professional drive, or one which we collaboratively design to fit your organization’s needs. Please contact me for pricing.

I recently offered a workshop at The Estuary and am a regular teacher at Art & Soul Studio. I have always felt that my personal growth workshops should not be limited to only those who can afford to pay. This winter I am offering “Shifting Sands, Divining Balance” for members of Gilda’s Club Nashville at no charge, and have plans to offer a similar workshop for a woman’s shelter, Mending Hearts.