Call off the Thought and Sing is a monthly event that integrates singing, music and movement with discussion on Zoom, 6-7.30pm UK time Sundays (10-11.30am Pacific), hosted by Briony Greenhill.
Are old social norms eroding? What is emerging in their place?
Briony says:
“My parents met at 22, married at 24, and are still together. Judeo-Christianity, the dominant moral framework in the West for about 2000 years until... recently... said ‘ideally, don't have sex at all, but if you must, do it with one person within marriage’. My intimate life, and those of many, many people I know, looks nothing like that.”
Is love evolving? If so, how? From shifts in gender templates and power balances, to communication styles, attachment styles, wounds and healing; from monogamy to non- monogamy and a plethora of new terms for gender, orientation and relationship structures; from the nuclear family (is it radioactive?) to community. Lots to talk about, and feel, and sing into. Let's come together.
With...
Rachel Rickards is the co-founder of Embodied Intimacy and an adventurous spirit in the realms of love, sex and relationship. She has great enthusiasm for the spiritual journey of finding your own relationship in relating with others and to yourself.
Ohad Pele is a lead faculty in the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) and has been teaching Kabbalah, Sacred Sexuality and Conscious Relating for more than 30 years. Originally a traditional Rabbi in Jerusalem, as well as an academic scholar and a community leader, Ohad is well known as one of the most influencing and radical spiritual teachers in Israel.
Sola Story brings an African perspective and a deep familiarity with Western culture. He is an international storyteller, facilitator and rites of passage leader, whose work draws on African Martial Arts, Nature engagement, Drumming, Storytelling, Creative Arts, Mindfulness and Visualisation. He just got married :)
Sasha Damjanovski is a filmmaker, a trainer and an intimacy coach with specialism in conscious kink, tantra, and open relationship.
Your host, Briony Greenhill, is a folk-soul improvisational artist and international teacher of CVI (collaborative vocal improvisation). She also has a 1st class degree in Political Science and worked in think tanks and social change organisations through her 20s. Her work is intimate and political, and in service to regenerative culture and paradigm shift.
How it works
We gather on zoom and settle in together. Please try to be on time. We'll listen to some music, the speakers will speak for about 5 mins each, then we'll all have an open conversation, facilitated by Briony. At various points we'll call off the thought and sing, using voice to digest the emotions raised by the conversation; we'll mostly be on mute, but hopefully some of you will come off mute somehow. From time to time we have a guest musician. Practicing plurality (holding space for divergent view points), communicating respectfully, making sense of our world together in a whole person way, in a held space.
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