Facilitated by alumni Alina Ortiz Salvatierra, Adisa Stewart, and Emmy Keppler This workshop will use relational somatics, storytelling, and movement as decolonial processes for subverting the cultures of isolation and separation that feed systemic oppression. We will use our personal experiences with community organizing and activism as our tools to build our frameworks for transformative […]

Facilitated by Javiera Benavente, Safire DeJong, and Alina Ortiz Salvatierra This workshop introduces students to relational storytelling as a practice for community building and strengthening bonds within groups.

Facilitated by Alina Ortiz Salvatierra and Jishava Patel, UACT Facilitator Ricardo Levins Morales, an artist and activist for social change movements across the country, describes resilience as not an individual trait or skill, but as the capacity of one’s community members to support each other in the face of oppression. Through our class, our hope […]

facilitated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha In response to many recent suicides of femme artists, organizers, and community leaders, this emotional safety planning workshop is a space for femmes (people who id as femme or feminine and queer and/or non binary and/or trans) who want to learn and share about suicidality in our lives, as well […]

Facilitated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha In this workshop, we will talk about the (often feminized and undervalued) work of care, with a specific focus on how sick and disabled folks can create care webs for ourselves. We’ll map what we need and what we have to give and what allows us to ask for and […]

Facilitated by Javiera Benavente and Chris Tinson, Professor of Africana Studies in CSI This interactive workshop presentation will create a faculty & staff centered space to share stories and strategies of engagement in these difficult social and political times. We want to allow space for faculty and staff to discuss some of the tough issues […]

What does it mean to be in community with people who do not share our opinions, views, or values? Often, it means that there are problems, disagreements, and conflict. Working through those issues in a way that protects community and all of its members can be challenging. Positive Powerful Communication offers a set of tools […]

a workshop for staff and faculty with Jamila Jackson This workshop for will explore the power of the body in creating a real and felt sense of connection between individuals; explore the power that connection has to: allow us to feel much deeper levels of support, to feel truly seen and heard, expand our capacity […]

Facilitated by Olivia Espinoza and Kristie Herman, UACT facilitators In this 5-part workshop series, students will engaged in the process of understanding who they are as facilitators, what roles facilitators can play, deepening their understanding of facilitated space, developing tools and skillsets to navigate those spaces, and grounding themselves in the transformative power of empathic […]

Dread Scott is an acclaimed American artist whose work has garnered significant public and scholarly attention and has been widely exhibited in the US and abroad. Scott describes his work–which powerfully addresses such topics as American imperialism, symbols of nationalism, police brutality and police murders of African Americans, the history and legacies of slavery, and […]

Facilitators: Teal Van Dyck and Alina Ortiz Salvatierra Relational Storytelling and Resonance workshop to introduce student  to these relational tools for community building and deepening bonds within groups.  

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, […]

The Culture of Radical Engagement framework supports participants to lead a shift in culture toward empathy, an essential and often elusive arena of social transformation. Cedar Landsman 99F and Lucien Demaris, lead trainers at The Relational Center, will collaborate with students, staff, faculty, administrators, and community partners in a week-long residency offering a nuanced, relational […]

Facilitated by Teal Van Dyck, and Liza Neal (Director of Spiritual Life, Hampshire College) Spiritual Life and the Ethics and the Common Good Project come together to consider the historical and current connections between contemplative practice and ethical life. What is the link between awareness and action? How have the world’s great changemakers used contemplative […]