Gender Empathy Games

Ever wonder how living in another gender’s reality impacts how one thinks and sees the world? Even with good intentions, communications across gender often run up against frustrating brick walls. “He doesn’t understand?” “Does she care to know what I really think?” “Are they just trying to manipulate me?” Explore how your relationship to your own body, dress, and appearance – and judgments of those around you - impact communications in a wide variety of contexts. Step into another’s shoes (maybe even literally!) and crack open your awareness to find deep wells of empathy and understanding. What to Expect: This workshop is open to individuals, friends, couples and more, and welcoming to all genders. Working on our own, in pairs, and small groups we will explore the ways stereotypical masculine or feminine conventions impact our communications styles and abilities. Relaxing into our breath and bodies as a community we tap into self-healing capacity and return to those fundamentals throughout our practice. Prompts and props of conventional masculinity and femininity will be utilized to help us tap into millennia of expectations and trauma that serve to complicate our relationships to our own bodies and our communication styles. Exercises that help us step across the gender divide catalyze deeper understanding of both our selves and those around us. This will be a shoes-off cushion on the floor seated and moving event. Please dress appropriately. Please bring an object that represents a gender other than your own, whether it be clothing, tools, art, makeup - any physical object that you can touch, hold, or wear. 6:30pm doors open. Time to get settled in your mind and body, relax or stretch with some chill background music. 7:00pm doors close and workshop begins. Please be on time so as not to disrupt the container. RSVP required for location. Suggested donation $5-$25 at the door or venmo @Eli-Cohen-34