The Embodied Word Gathering

19th - 21st November 2021

The Gathering is a 3-day event based on the interrelation between body, mind and creative expression in the act of using language.

This gathering aims to make the connection between the body, the mind and artistic/creative expression with the use of language tangible.

Each talk, interview and workshop are grounded in embodied mindfulness and bring the body into the creative language experience.

The goal of this gathering is to showcase the role of our bodies in language acquisition and self-expression.

Unrestrained Creativity.

Bodily experience.

Meaning-making.

Words

Three days of bodyfulness, mindfulness and creative verbal experience.

The speakers

Your speakers and facilitators belong to different areas of expertise.

Who are they?

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CHESLINE PIERRE PAUL
Body as Poetry & Healing

Ches is Queer-E-O of their own private global digital transformation coaching & social impact consulting company. They work with world leaders, entrepreneurs, & global organizations, & empower them to be globally industry-making, era-defining, pace-setting, & innovationally relevant through anti-oppression as disruption, social transformation, internationalization of assets, & rebellious leadership. This is global thought leadership done differently across space, worlds, systems, & global communities.

CHRISTINE REN
Agency 

Christine Ren is a trauma-informed somatic coach and investor in human potential tirelessly dedicated to helping all beings live their truth and express their gifts by integrating trauma and liberating limiting stories.

Using a somatic coherence framework, Christine facilitates individuals through a type of both and intersectional work of healing of the mind’s story (meaning and context its made), and the body’s memory (somatic imprint/ physiology, that remains in the body and nervous system from various experiences, threats and woundings).

You can find more of Christine, her work & programs at http://somatic-coherence.com & IG @somaticcoherence.

CANDICE WU
Embodied Expression

Candice Wu is a Multidimensional Healing Facilitator and Intuitive Coach. She supports people in self love, embodiment, wholeness, and liberation. She holds an experiential and trauma-wise space for you to calibrate your body to your natural energetic signature and Source, enjoy a Life of Beauty, pleasure, navigate the Unknown and co-create with the Mystery of Life. She also offers experiences being in the presence of horses. Writing, nature, singing, dancing, sustainable living also bring her so much joy!  

As the host of The Embody Podcast, Candice offers personal healing experiences, multidimensional trauma healing and self-love practices, guest interviews, and meditations and experientials to support your innate inner wisdom and resources.

Learn more about Candice at www.candicewu.com

VIRGINIA JENKINS
Expressing Yourself Fully

Virginia is a mindfulness-based coach with a background in clinical psychology. She works as both a transformational life coach and an English language communication coach. In both of these practices, her focus is on supporting people to be fully in their lives, whether that is related to the way they approach personal development, career, relationships, or self-expression. She is particularly gifted in creating a space for clients to both identify the barriers that seem to get in the way of where people would like to be and to find personalized, creative, and nourishing ways to work with them.

SILVIA PERRONE
Words Alive

Silvia Perrone, writes stories and leads creative Italian workshops to help learners create connections + meanings + memories in Italian.

Find her in Instagram: @italearn 

JESSICA TEFENKGI RUELLE
Relearning Authenticity through language acquisition

Jessica Tefenkgi Ruelle is a language facilitator, mindset coach, meditation teacher and mindfulness practitioner. Raised in a pluricultural and multilingual environment, she overcame the trauma of adoption through voicing her thoughts and emotions in the languages she learnt. Today, she empowers others to discover and embrace their plurality, find their authentic self and express it through the languages they love to create a life filled with purpose and joy.

LINA VASQUEZ
Healing & Higher Consciousness through Holistic Language Learning

Lina Vasquez is a cross-cultural social media consultant, multilingual YouTuber, writer and speaker, whose mission is to revolutionise the education sector by fostering deep, holistic, human connection on a global level. She is the creator of LVL Holistic Learning and co-host of the Live Show “A Life OnPurpose” with the mission of impacting 1 million people globally by 2023 to live an enhanced life of true connection & meaning. With a multi-faceted skillset in legal & psychotherapeutic studies, entrepreneurship, personal development and coaching, Lina endeavours to empower and inspire all human beings to embrace their multifaceted, holistic nature and question the status quo around stereotypes and limiting paradigms; and does this, in seven languages. 

KATE WINDER
The Creative Process

Kate has been teaching English online for many years and is currently training to become a creativity coach. She is very interested in the field of personal development and mental health and wants to go deeper with clients in order to help them overcome whatever is stopping them from pursuing their passions. She believes that everyone has the ability to unlock their creative potential in different ways, even if they feel like they are ‘not creative.’ She also encourages clients to use their intuition and build their self-awareness in order to be their best selves. Kate currently lives in the USA with her son and two dogs. 

DEBBY IXCHEL
Yoga

Debby Ixchel is a linguist, Hispanist and yogi teaching Spanish connecting the heart with the brain. She is a podcast host, book author, and full-time single mother to a biracial girl. Debby combines her knowledge in the field of yoga, culture, and linguistics. Through her highly connective work she invites language learners to open up and connect with others, so they can not only learn to accept otherness, but even more so, learn self-acceptance. Originally from a rural small town in the Netherlands, her search for identity lead to her living in Spain at the age of 18, shedding a light on her cultural belief system. After finishing her Hispanic Studies, she lived in Central America where her love for spirituality, culture, language, and sacred sites all merged together.

LEANDRA ROSE
Somatic Honesty

Leandra Rose holds a BA in Behavioral Science and Human Development and was an early childhood educator for over 15 years. Now a transformational coach and founder of The Radiant Rebellion, she specializes in empowering awakening women to release the fears, limiting beliefs, and familial and cultural imprinting that blocks them from living their most authentic & fulfilling lives.

Leandra started her transformational work in 2008 after healing her anxiety and panic attacks with meditation. This set her off on a journey to become a master teacher in breathwork, meditation, embodiment, energetics & mindset. Leandra has transformed her own traumas into the powerful healing presence and process she brings to her sessions and workshops. It’s also her extensive background in psychology, somatic experiencing & mindfulness that creates a unique, empowering and safe space for her clients to unlock their highest potential.

From teaching meditation to billion dollar corporations to leading small, intimate retreats for awakening women, Leandra holds an exquisite space that allows her clients to have profound breakthroughs in life, health, heart & purpose.

Find her:

Leandrarose.com
Instagram: @theradiantrebellion 

The program.

There will be three, 20-minute experiential sessions around embodiment, mindfulness and creative expression per day.

Every workshop will be preceded by a 10 min chat with every facilitator so you can get a flavour of the person before you engage in their workshop.

Once you sign up you will receive the program and be updated with new additions to the line-up.

3 days

BODYFULNESS / EMBODIMENT

MINDFULNESS / NLP

CREATIVE / ARTISTIC EXPRESSION

“…there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false.”
― George Lakoff

About the Gathering

The event is multilingual (in English and any other language/-es that the speaker wants to use).

Each day includes a talk or workshop related to the body, a talk/workshop around the mind/mindfulness and a talk/workshop about the use of words in a creative manner or artistic expression.

The gathering is free and online. If you can’t attend all the talks, workshops and interviews, don’t fret! Sign up and you’ll get lifetime access to the entire gathering.

I want my body to express my soul;

For every cell to be impregnated with the meaning I came here to carry into the world.

For every tendon, every sinew to be holding the vibrant song that only I can sing,

For each movement to bring forth the longing from deep within to play in the world.

I want to live from my core, from that space in my belly that holds the infinite. 

I want to live boldly from that place, unleashed, wild, 

Burning all there is inside me into smoke.

Unashamed, uncensored, unrestrained, uncompromising – 

I want to set myself on fire.

– Stephanie Lisa Kelly

Your body is in a perpetual dance with the body of the land you inhabit,
the land that nurses you.

Two bodies co-creating experiences
that form thoughts
that forms words.

Remember,
without your body in mind,
your mind becomes a hollow soundproof room.
Your words,
vacuous,
senseless,
purposeless.

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