Growing our capacity to create community is one of the most pressing issues we face in our culture today. Engagement with the imaginative, somatic, and expressive dimensions of our selves is necessary if we are to develop our capacity for collaboration. This workshop uses the
Chormmunity (choreography + community) method to facilitate the participants in growing collaborative capacities — through movement inquiry, dialogue, drawing, collectively choreographing, and enacting a “movement text” (re-inhabiting the self-authored collective body). Together, we will be the playwrights, choreographers, directors, performers, and audience of our own soul’s unfolding.

In this experiential workshop, participants will have the opportunity to:



        • Experience the joy of artful, collective, and authentic expression
        • Discover Self and Other through symbolic and somatic modalities
        • Cultivate a field ripe for mutual leadership and transformative learning
        • Engage intrapersonally and interpersonally with difference
No dance or movement experience required; wear loose, comfortable clothes.

Program Leader:
Paul Loper, Ph.D. is an artist, an educator, a consultant, and a facilitator of expressive ways of knowing and communicating. He has over 20 years experience as an award-winning professional dancer and choreographer. Paul is the creator of Chormmunity — a methodology for exploring creative ritual within groups and communities. He has conducted Chormmunity in many diverse communities including holistic health and educational organizations, artistic venues, as well as business and activist settings. He is a designer of custom ritual/performative activities/events and is director of Have More Fun – Body, a creative organizational consultancy in Dublin, Ireland.

Program Information:
Continuing Education Information:
Date: Saturday, March 1, 2008 CE Hours: 6.0
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CE Fee: There is a $15 CEU Certificate Fee
Fee: $85

CE Approval:

MFT/LCSWs: This course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. (Provider number PCE1391)
Discounts: 15% discount for students and seniors with ID
Register: Call IIS at 707-765-1836 to register or register online by clicking here.
Location: IIS Downtown Campus
47 Sixth Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
Click here for directions
CE Registration: If you want continuing education units for this course, please pay the $15 CEU certificate fee at the time of registration.

Institute of Imaginal Studies
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area – 47 Sixth Street, Petaluma, CA 94952
Phone: (707) 765-1836 – Fax: (707) 765-2351
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