Slow Down Together is a six month, mutual support container for anti-capitalist visionaries to be in an embodied exploration of what becomes possible in our lives and work when we collectively slow down in pace and presence.

Over the course of six months, we will explore the themes of embodied urgency, where it comes from, and the deep transformation of our reactive impulses and default behaviors. We center that we are more powerful together than we are alone.

In these times, it can often feel like everything is urgent. The festering legacies of colonial and racialized violence on Turtle Island and around the globe encompass climate catastrophe, the swell of fascism, a still ongoing global pandemic, the fight for all people experiencing oppression and erasure to exist with dignity, conflict within our movements, communities, families, friendships, workplaces, and schools.

We know that ceasing the harm being enacted on all scales of society is necessary for true trauma healing and transformation to occur. If we know too that our well-being as a species is dependent upon the well-being of all life and land, we can easily find ourselves in a state of perpetual alarm as we witness and react to injustice and mounting attacks. While our bodies may indicate to us in a variety of ways that we need to slow down, we may be in the habit of ignoring or pushing past these cues. 

How do we meaningfully pause to notice, accept, and intentionally respond to our bodies’ signals around urgency and pacing? Some of us want to slow down, but feel like we can’t when responsibilities like work, school, or caregiving consume our time. What if we can’t access or remember how to slow our spinning, especially when we are under duress?

Incorporating somatics, mindfulness, and the creative toolkit of InterPlay, we will unpack our tendencies to rush, develop and strengthen skills to ground our nervous systems, share stories, and unlock the wisdom of our bodies with supportive witness. Participants will be given concepts, practices, and invitations to voluntarily engage with the material in the time between sessions.