Me Too Movement

Survivor's Sanctuary Community Workshop : Get Into Your Body a Qigong Workshop
2024-05-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join members of Survivor’s Sanctuary for the final installment of this season’s Survivor’s Sanctuary Community Workshop Series. ‘me too.’ has invited content experts to bring Survivor’s Sanctuary themes to life in interactive workshops. Members are invited to build community and deepen their healing journey as we collectively explore healing in action.
In June, we will culminate the series with joshua bee alafia, meditation and Qigong teacher. Wanting to bring Vipassana practice to the youth, he began teaching mindfulness practices to incarcerated, court-involved youth through New York’s Lineage Project. He is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leaders training program through Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and he is the founder of Liberation Center Worldwide and the South Side Liberation Center in Chicago. Joshua currently teaches Qigong and meditation at the Good Seed Foundation in Los Angeles.
Together, we will drop into our bodies for physical practice. Whether you are new to Qigong or a seasoned practitioner, explore this ancient healing art. This workshop will offer various modifications to meet your needs.
Interested in being a part of this workshop? Register today to hold your spot. Space is limited.
Registration Link: bit.ly/SSwrkshop_June
*ASL, Spanish Interpretation, and live closed captioning provided.

I Have a Right to Pleasure
2024-04-24 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join members of Survivor’s Sanctuary for the next installment in a series of bi-monthly workshops in April, and June. ‘me too.’ has invited content experts to bring Survivor’s Sanctuary themes to life in interactive workshops. Members are invited to build community and deepen their healing journey as we collectively explore healing in action.
This month, we will continue the series with Dr.Sami Schalk. Dr. Schalk is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a fat, Black, queer, disabled femme whose research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. Dr. Schalk is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction and Black Disability Politics. She is a pleasure activist and artist whose writing, modeling and self-photography works insists on pleasure both as a political issue and a source of power for marginalized people.
Together, we will explore the role of pleasure in our lives and how we can access it on purpose.
This workshop will center the experiences of survivors of the global majority.
Interested in being a part of the conversation? Register today to hold your spot. Space is limited.
Registration Link: https://bit.ly/SSwrkshp_Apr
*ASL, Spanish Interpretation, and live closed captioning provided.

Survivor’s Sanctuary Community Workshop Series: Healing As A Vehicle for Healing
2024-02-21 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join members of Survivor’s Sanctuary for the third installment of five bi-monthly workshops held in February, April, and June 2024. ‘me too.’ has invited content experts to bring Survivor’s Sanctuary themes to life in interactive workshops.
Members are invited to build community and deepen their healing journey as we collectively explore healing in action. In December, we had the privilege of learning from Healing Justice practitioner Erica Woodland about the lineage of healing justice, and how survivors can use this framework in our collective healing journey.
We will continue the series in February with a friend of the organization, Dr. Shena Young. Dr. Shena is a is a licensed body-centered psychologist–healer, artist, and Iyalorisa of Osun and Obatala in the Isese tradition of Ifa. She owns a private practice, embodied truth healing & psychological services, rooted in Los Angeles, CA where she offers mind–body–heart–spirit care in healing from sexual, racial, intergenerational, and ancestral traumas. Her book body rites: a holistic healing and embodiment workbook for Black survivors of sexual trauma.
Together we will explore how we use cultural tools and practices as a way to support and deepen our healing journeys. This workshop is open to BIPOC members of Survivor’s Sanctuary.
Are you interested in being a part of the conversation? Register today via Survivor’s Sanctaury dashboard, or via the link below, to hold your spot by February 19. Space is limited.
Registration link: https://bit.ly/SSwrkshp_feb

Meet & Greet with Tarana Burke
2023-10-25 15:00 - 18:00 UTC
Join members of Survivor’s Sanctuary for the first in a series of bi-monthly workshops in October, December, February, April, and June. ‘me too.’ has invited content experts to bring Survivor’s Sanctuary themes to life in interactive workshops. Members are invited to build community and deepen their healing journey as we collectively explore healing in action.
We will kick off the series with a special meet and greet with ‘me too.’ Founder and Chief Vision Officer, Tarana Burke. Hear from Tarana about the 6th anniversary of the #metoo; the difference between #metoo, me too. International, the me too. movement and what all of this has to do with survivor justice. Interested in being a part of the conversation? Register today to hold your spot. Space is limited.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpdu6urDgvGtHkFNgyT1FZ_tzXl_Ty7wqc
