Social Presencing Theatre

This workshop explores embodied presence and its application to specific leadership or social challenges. Embodied presence is the interplay between attention, body and environment. Participants practice four forms – the Twenty Minute Dance, the Village, Duet, and Field Dance to heighten sensitivity to current experience, to become more attentive to shifts in the social or contextual field, and to prototype seeds of the future.

Some of the practices will be done outside, allowing nature to open our perceptions and inform our choices.

INSTRUCTOR:

Arawana Hayashi brings her extensive background in the   performing arts and in contemplative practice into leadership training in the arena of organizational and social change. She is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher trained in both Japanese and Western art forms. She is also an Acharya (a senior teacher of meditation) in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage. From her career’s inception, her work as an artist and meditation practitioner has been intertwined with innovations in community building and education.  She has taught workshops on embodiment, creative process and Shambhala art at ALIA Institute, Naropa University, and at educational institutions, organizations, and meditation centers internationally. Her work is currently taught in the context of Theory U and the Presencing Institute, of which she is one of the co-founders with C. Otto Scharmer. She leads efforts in the creation of a Social Presencing Theater within the Presencing Institute.

Read more about Arawana and her workshops here.

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