Schedule of Events

About the Workshop

This workshop is designed for White identified people but is open to anyone for their learning.

In this workshop you will learn and practice politicized somatic mind/body methodology to bring awareness and antidotes to heal embodied White supremacy. Our relationship to our bodies mirrors our relationship to the world around us. When we dominate ourselves we are more likely to unconsciously dominate and enact supremacy on the people and the land around us.  This workshop will include theory, somatic practice as well as some time to debrief.

What Is Politized Somatics?

Politicized somatics builds embodied leadership, heals trauma and internalized oppression, and advances loving and rigorous relationships so that we possess the creativity, resilience, and liberatory power needed for collective transformation. Somatics moves us toward embodying new ways of being that align our values, longings, and actions. This workshop will include practices and methodology from the Generative Somatics lineage. It is a politicized somatic mind/body lineage that builds embodied leadership to align people’s personal and collective practices with their principles.

About the Workshop Leaders

Sue Kuyper is a bilingual politicized somatic healer, facilitator, and organizational consultant who has been working in crossroads of social movements, community-based organizations, and healing for the past 30 years primarily in the Mission District in San Francisco, Oakland, and Guatemala. During the years of 2001-2009, Sue worked with rural, urban, and Indigenous survivors of genocide and political repression in Guatemala. With a focus on working with change makers, organizers and community workers, Sue offers multicultural, international, and intergenerational perspectives with expertise in embodied Whiteness, movement burnout, transnational families, and immigration trauma. She is a single mother with co-parents of two multiracial young people who teach her to stay humble and committed to intergenerational healing every single day.  Sue lives and works on unceded Chochenyo and Muwekma Ohlone homeland also known as Oakland, California.

About the Panel

A lively and inspiring conversation with Rupa Marya and Charlene Eigen-Vasquez of Deep Medicine Circle about how to repair and strengthen our relationship with the land and our more-than-human kin, the impacts of colonization on our health, the importance of reconnecting with our own ancestral lineages, and creating holistic food systems through a farming as medicine model.

About the Panel Leaders

Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, writer, mother, and a composer. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. Her work sits at the nexus of climate, health, and racial justice. Dr. Marya founded the Deep Medicine Circle (DMC), an organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, and learning. Bringing together farmers, artists, land stewards, cooks, activists, and healthcare workers, the DMC is advancing a model of the food system based in care called Farming is Medicine. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as "Liberation Music." Together with Raj Patel, she co-authored the bestselling book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.

Charlene Eigen-Vasquez, J.D. is a descendant of both Ohlone and Mexican people. She serves as the Director of the Landback and the Cultural Stewardship Program for Deep Medicine Circle (DMC). She brings a lifelong dedication to land restoration and preservation, as well as environmental justice for all living beings. She stands by these initiatives because she has witnessed the direct impact they have on physical and mental health. As a mother and grandmother, she decided to complete a law degree so that she might become a stronger force serving Indigenous communities. Today her focus is on regenerative leadership strategies, leveraging her legal skills, and peacemaking skills to advocate for Indigenous interests, negotiate agreements and build relational bridges. As an acknowledged peacemaker, she works with Indigenous cohorts including Tribal Supreme Court Justices to train others as they resolve difficult problems. In addition to her work with DMC, Charlene is a former Ethnic Studies Professor and currently serves as Chairwoman of the Confederation of Ohlone People, Co-Chair of the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian Council, and Board Vice President for the Santa Clara Valley Indian Health Center.

About the Workshop

A transformative, participatory workshop focused on engaging with the voices of our Indigenous partners. How can we "stay with the trouble" when the distractions of modernity untether us from the realities of the planet? Explore four ways to begin to increase our capacities amidst global volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

About the Workshop Leader

inabel Uytiepo, CBMA, CCHT, CMT (they/isuna/siya) is a transdisciplinary healing arts practitioner of the ilocanx-chinese diaspora who facilitates journeys for individuals and organizations. inabel is an intuitive bodyworker, contemporary and ancestral maternal lineage holder of manual therapies for digestive and reproductive systems via neuromuscular, visceral, inter-dimensional, quantum, and energy presencing. inabel is a co-convener for Peoples Collective for Justice and Liberation. inabel is a siúman to 10 and 12 year olds with their partner, dog, and cat on the unceded coastal mountains of Uypi lands.

About the Workshop

For this Prayer/Talking Circle, RaheNi will ceremonially open the directions and create a sacred container for people to share vulnerably and be held & witnessed by the community.

The climate crisis, in addition to being a cataclysmic event for life as we know it, is a profound opportunity to bring about a future grounded in our sacred interdependence with all life. Connecting to the sacred is not only an act of revitalization and capacity building, it is a birthright that has been lost to us in the modern world. This space is to return to the sacred for the sake of regenerating our social and ecological ecosystems.

About the Workshop Leader

RaheNi Gonzalez is a Two Spirit Afro-Boricua Taino Ceremonialist, Sacred Artist, Culture Bearer, and Cultural Organizer. RaheNi is deeply committed to the work of healing our collective wounds of colonization, modernization & industrialization. They are passionate about creating sacred space and are blessed to have been walking on the Red Road for almost three decades. RaheNi is a facilitator for Spirit Root Medicine People, a wellness project for the 2SQ BIPOC Community. They are also a core member of the Healing Clinic Collective, which, for ten years, has strived and succeeded at planting seeds for a return to the sacred. Additionally, RaheNi teaches workshops on plant medicine making, healing, and self care rooted in Indigenous medicine ways and Ancestral remembrance.

About the Workshop

This workshop will offer an introduction to Global Social Witnessing as a practice to support environmental justice activism. We will create a safe and emergent space, noticing our inner experience as we turn towards the challenges of climate crisis and injustice. By valuing and including the facets of our inner experience that we often leave out, and with the support of an intentional group space, we begin to build a more sustainable and grounded base from which to do our work in the world.

About the Workshop Leaders

Manda, Robert, and Rhonda are passionate about and working to make the innovative social technology Global Social Witnessing (GSW) more widely available in the world.

Manda and Robert began developing GSW practice in 2017 and co-founded the Pocket Project’s GSW Competence Centre. They created and regularly co-teach the GSW Webinar series: "Witnessing the World in Me/And Me in the World", and "The Art of Witnessing". Manda and Robert co-founded World Witnessing and worked with Rhonda to create the website World Witnessing.

Manda facilitates groups of business executives in leadership development and works as a trauma-informed coach and somatic therapist. She has studied with Thomas Hübl since 2015, and is a member of his core group and a graduate of the Pocket Project’s "Restoration of Collective and Intergenerational Trauma" training.

Robert is a trauma-informed certified coach, social activist and former executive leader of large-scale public and private organizations. He has studied with Thomas Hübl since 2015, is a graduate of Thomas Hübl’s Timeless Wisdom and Pocket Project trainings, and is a member of Thomas’ Core Group and of his Assistant Team.

About the Workshop

We are in a new era of climate solutions and most people do not realize it. Last year, the Biden Administration passed three policies - the Inflation Reduction Act, Justice40, and 30x30 initatives - that create powerful legal support and billions, possibly trillions, of dollars for climate solutions and climate justice. They open pathways to transform our economy and our relationship to nature at a huge scale- but they require people in every town and city in the US to mobilize and use the new laws to create the change. Most people do not realize this new reality and the media does not tell the story well. For the first time, the solutions to climate change are in our hands. Come hear about this new future and how you can get involved in making it happen.

About the Workshop Leader

Will is the co-creator of Pachamama Alliance's Community Action Training program, which develops grassroots leaders in 15 countries. He has 30 years experience leading social change in communities, government policy, and education. His life and work are guided by regeneration and spirituality.