Journaling as Resistance, Rest, and Remembering
Welcome to an in-person workshop weaving journaling and somatic practices, guided by the wisdom of Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Undrowned) and Audre Lorde (Uses of the Erotic), where we’ll practice listening “beyond the normative ability to hear.” In this session, we’ll explore our relationship with silence and our agency to speak, creating space to rest, breathe, remember, journal, and reclaim our voices. Through body–mind–centering practices—including breath as a vessel for aliveness, sounding and humming, and collective readings—we’ll deepen into embodied reflection and the courageous practice of voicing our truths. This trauma-informed workshop welcomes all bodies, by donation (all proceed will got to Palestinian Children Relief Fund and is facilitated by Amélie Gaulier.
This series of workshops builds on a previous collaboration with activist Em Taliana, who coined the term Journaling as Resistance. The practice has since evolved through two co-facilitations with Mylage Negga and one with Sy Lammer.
It began at STORM, a SWANA bookstore founded by Nour Sabbagh in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. After STORM’s physical location closed in June, the series continued at Sunview Luncheonette, hosted by Sy Lammer, and is now held at Held Space, a collective fostering creativity, community, and care in Greenpoint.
Amélie Gaulier (she/they) is a Body-Mind Centering® practitioner and somatic movement therapist, a member of ISMETA and The Embody Lab, and co-founder of SOMA SOMA with Emily Thulier.
Her 1:1 sessions invite the body as a site of wisdom, care, and possibility. She supports people in reconnecting with the language of sensation, cultivating presence, embodied awareness, and creative consciousness as pathways toward healing and transformation. As a group facilitator, Amélie engages emergent and relational pedagogies that nurture liberatory ways of being and becoming, grounded in mutual listening and shared learning. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, on unceded Canarsie land.
Visual: courtesy of the artist @ Yana Dimitrova
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