Workshop : Ellen Furey – Lifting the Ceiling

Objective

Lifting the Ceiling (the proverbial one tacitly created to block out awareness of our vast skies) is a workshop designed to help us recognize latent dreamscapes for life, work and art making, as big and as good-feeling as we can muster; stretching to include the too big, too much, too ambitious, the too idealistic, the impractical.

I desire to create deeply affirming and positive collective experiences that validate who we really are as either spiritually or fantastically more than human, soul beings perhaps, allowing us space to explore outside of practicality and current conditions (personal, interpersonal, societal).

Content

The workshop rehearses imagining and believing the possible worlds we desire—not through a framework of reform, but through one of confident fantasy. What is (y)our desired future and present, and how can we rehearse it into life?

Drawing from my background in spiritual accompaniment, psychic development, and non-medical death care, I will delve into exploring alternatives to a mindset of precarity. Exercises will include adapted writing prompts, movement scores, work-outs, short meditations, structured sharings/discussions and paired reflections aimed at nurturing potential and courage.

𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: English – Questions in French and English

📷 Sasha Onyshchenko