Facilitated by Javiera Benavente and Alina Ortiz Salvatierra In this course, we will learn about various approaches and methods for facilitating group process, shared learning, and collaborative actions that effect and create change in the wider world. We will explore how group facilitation can be used as a tool for cultivating connections and relationships, building […]

Facilitated by Javiera Benavente and Alina Ortiz Salvatierra Storytelling Resonance workshop offered during RA training/ january orientation, asking students to reflect on their experiences entering or exiting a community and share with one another to deepen relational bonds.

led by Alumni Adisa Stewart This workshop will explore somatic (body-based) resilience in the face of an array of emotional responses to events that have impacted students of color in the Hampshire community. The workshop will use a methodology that has grown out of the work from Generative Somatics (GS), offering an approach that combines […]

Facilitated by Laura Greenfield, Andrea Johnson, Mei Ann Teo, Alina Ortiz Thursday, December 1, 7-9pm, Cultural Center Thursday November 17, 9:30-11:30am, Emily Dickinson Hall This workshop was a part of a series that SPARC did in order to better understand students specific challenges with communication and conflict on campus. We wanted to use the information […]

Facilitated by Cedar Landsman and Lucien Demaris This is a one day relational community building training for student leaders and changemakers. Using tools that cultivate resilient ways of being together and communicating with each other, we hope to support existing student cohorts build their relationships with one another and strengthen bonds. The training will facilitate […]

Facilitated by Jamila Jackson These 1.5 hour Embodied Leadership Project workshops use play, compassionate listening, and discussion to create a place to get support, find connection and community, develop your leadership skills, and engage with experiential and theoretical research of the full-bodied brain. We get to play, to theorize, and to inquire into ways of […]

A gathering to affirm and welcome in the energy of relational, embodied, and emotionally connected community. Including a dance party after with incredible DJ. Brought to you by The Embodied Leadership Project, Hampshire Dance Program, CYL, CBD, The JB Scholars Program, CPSC, and the Cultural Center.

Facilitated by alumni Alina Ortiz Salvatierra, Adisa Stewart, and Emmy Keppler. This workshop will use relational somatics, storytelling, and movement to begin to construct a culture of resilience and resistance at Hampshire College and beyond! We will use our personal experiences of wellness and healing as our tools to build collective capacities for transforming relationships, […]