Carol Swann & Kristen Greco
CONVERSATION/MOVEMENT LAB : Movement for These Times
with Carol Swann & Kristen Greco
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In this experiential workshop, Kristen and Carol facilitate a dynamic practice blending movement and spoken word, where participants alternate between moving, witnessing, and reflecting on themes of disruption and renewal. Through heart-centered sharing and embodied exploration, we honor our bodies as vessels where movements traverse and transform us. Moving beyond binary constructs and the performative boundaries of culture, we’ll practice meeting the moment and allowing our bodies and voices to lead.
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Carol Swann is a group process and conflict facilitator whose work brings unique skills into community building and contributing toward a more socially just and connected world. She weaves her extensive studies in Process Work, Social Somatic’s (The Socially Conscious Body) Hakomi (body/mind psychotherapy) and (Somatic Experiencing Trauma Work, SE) into all of her work. She is Co-Founder (with Martha Eddy) and Director of Moving On Center School of Participatory Arts and Somatic Research, (Berkeley, CA) which bridges somatics and the performing arts for social change (1994-current). She has taught Somatics (movement re-patterning and psychology), the Alexander Technique (AmSAT), Authentic Movement, Voice Thru the Body, Contact Improvisation and Performance Improvisation for 40 years in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Israel, and Russia. She is a registered movement therapist (RSMT/RMT) which includes her extensive training in both Body Mind Centering and Laban/Bartenieff Studies with a private practice in Somatic Therapy. www.movingoncenter.org or carolswann.net (she is currently on leave from work as she deals with a serious illness and disabilities.)
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Kristen Greco she/they) is a cultural activator with a long time practice as a socially engaged somatics practitioner. Kristen integrates improvisation, neurophysiology, and trauma-informed work to support dancers, practitioners, developers, researchers, and leaders across sectors in cultivating an embodied awareness. She takes great delight in exploring suspension, release, and tone, as well as falling and flying off the vertical axis. Kristen is a bodyworker, improviser and performer with a love of making art in wild urban and rural spaces. She works with individuals and organizations locally and internationally from her base in Oakland, CA. You can learn more about her work here: www.kristengreco.com