Questions of Consent with Molly Tipping
This event was held on Tuesday 21 November, 2023. Click on the View Event button below to access and purchase the recording.
In this ASTER conversation Molly Tipping, Feldenkrais practitioner and consent educator, considers the following questions:
How can we foster an alive, engaging and embodied consensual culture? How do we embody principles of consent, how do we develop language for consent, and how do we provide opportunities for conversation, communication and agency?
Molly’s work draws on practice-led and deeply thoughtful approaches to creating safety and engagement in movement-based practices and beyond.
Molly will shared some valuable frameworks, tools and practices for ‘doing consent’ in the somatic landscape. As well as considering how we can use consensual protocols in our teaching and practice, she reflected on what our somatic skills can bring to the conversation. Let’s build our collective capacity to engage with the complex questions of consent.
Lighting Up Living Connections
Connect . Nourish . Envision
Join ASTER in-person for an afternoon of guided somatic movement, voice and creative adventures. Craft and discover connections with ourselves, our practices, our earth and each other.
A time for community-making and mapping, dreaming and discussion through the generative richness of bodylife. Come to spark new ideas and connect with peers through touch, movement, play, imagination and more.
Curated for people working, playing and researching in the many fields of embodied practice, movement and somatics, this event aims to support you personally, as a practitioner, and as a vital part of a living connected community.
An ASTER Afternoon
26th August 2023
2:30pm - 6.30pm
at the Learning Centre, CERES Community Environment Park, Brunswick East VIC
2:30 - 5:30 Workshop & guided practices
5:30 - 6:30 Social time (by the fire if weather permits)
Light refreshments will be provided
$60 full / $40 concession
Space is limited to 25
IMAGINATION & SOMATICS - An ASTER Conversation exploring the dynamic & generative relationship between the imagination & somatics
What is the relationship between imagination and somatics? How does it function in your life and/or practice? Imagination is part of our embodied design and key to our capacity for novelty, creativity, problem solving and agility among many things. Let’s pool our lived experience and grow our collective understanding of this core life skill.
To get things rolling, the ASTER crew will begin with a discussion and experiential practice. Then it’s your turn in small groups to share your experience and ideas. Finally, we’ll dive into a collective conversation about the power and significance of imagination in your personal and professional practices.
Here are some of the ways we think about and play with imagination. Before we gather we wanted to offer these sparks/thoughts/prompts:
Imagination as pathway to intangible things inside & outside
Imagination for crafting embodied awareness
Imagination for experimentation
Imagination for activating & manifesting somatic experience
We look forward to having an ASTER Conversation with you on Zoom.
MAPPING PATHWAYS OF CONNECTION: Polyvagal Theory & somatic therapy practices
Past event: ASTER Conversation #2
Three experienced and deeply thoughtful somatically-oriented therapists help us unpack Polyvagal Theory through discussing their practices and insights. Come and join this timely Aster Conversation considering themes of danger, safety, bonding, trauma, agency, curiosity, embodiment and the complexities and wonder of being human.
Panelists:
Satu Palokangas (Finland)
www.satupalokangas.com
Sarah Rosenberg (Australia)
www.sarahrosenberg.com.au
Julie Teetsov, Ph.D. (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
www.julieteetsov.com
Aster Conversation with Heather Hill: “A space to be myself” - Supporting the personhood of people with dementia through dance
Past event: ASTER Conversation #1
For the first instalment in our ASTER Conversation Series, we speak with Dance Movement Therapist Heather Hill about her lifelong work engaging people with dementia.