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Awakened Activism

Want to contribute, but don't want to add to the violence? Learn to source your actions from a deeply relaxed, awakened place of trust, courage, compassion, and interconnectedness. "Do what you're here to do" and enjoy the satisfaction of a meaningful life.

Sound Journeys

Using crystal singing bowls, toning and voice improv, frame drum, tongue drum, chimes, shakers, and more, I create unique sound scapes for groups. These sound journeys support deep relaxation, multi-dimensional resonance, and integration.

Group Facilitation

I offer facilitation services to help liberate group brilliance and catalyze collective emergence, creativity, & transformation. Using specifically-designed processes to illuminate and shift hidden dynamics, and to identify critical tensions and information, I assist your group to find creative solutions and clarify forward movement.

Ceremony

Creating an intentional, sacred space can support healing and celebration, and is a wonderful way to honor important events and thresholds. I help you imagine, design, plan, and facilitate beautiful ritual events for myriad occasions - beginnings, endings, seasons and cycles, etc.

Awakened Activism

Creativity Coaching

Do you have a specific project that you're aching to bring forth? Are you ready to take your creative life seriously? Personalized coaching can help you express your unique vision by supporting you through common setbacks in the creative process - from conception to completion. Let your dreams shine forth!

Transformative Life Coaching

Get to the root of it: transform yourself, transform your life. Depth coaching helps you evolve beyond the constrictions of old conditioning, and create a rich, multifaceted life congruent with the magnificent essence at the core of your being.

Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment Training
Embodied Equity Training

Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment is a powerful developmental model illuminating hidden social dynamics based on our conditioned habits of overvaluing and undervaluing groups of people with certain characteristics. This model, developed by Leticia Nieto, PsyD, and articulated in her book Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Model to Liberate Everyone, "offers a powerful analysis of the psychological dynamics of oppression and privilege, and shows readers how to develop the skills that can promote social justice for themselves and those around them."

Margit is a certified trainer of this work and offers the following Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment services:

One-to-One: Custom-led sessions tailored to help you deepen your understanding and application of the Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment model. Especially effective after you’ve participated in a group training or a Book-Study Course. $100 per hour.

Book-Study Course: $510 for individuals, or $330 per person if in a small group. A facilitated, virtual or in-person course consisting of six 90-minute meetings, either weekly or bi-monthly, to support a fuller learning of the Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment model. Includes Power, Status, Rank, ADDRESSING model, Agent and Target roles and skill development, practices to expand skill sets, homework and reading between sessions.

Group Training Workshops: $2000 for 6 hours, $1500 for 3 hours.

Keynotes: $1700 for 1 – 2 hours.

Training Overview

Our continuing value to society will increasingly depend on how well we learn to bridge between differences of all types – while honoring and celebrating diversity. It is an imposing challenge to generate a vision of any cultural change. This training is designed to facilitate communication and empowerment. The focus will be on clarifying the complexities of working across significant differences and on understanding the dynamics of oppression and liberation. The training often results in participants taking on action plans to bring about positive change.
Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment Certified trainers support you, your organization, or your community to develop a common language and analysis about oppression and liberation while deepening your commitment to social justice. Trainings provide participants with an in depth grasp of social dynamics at the levels of Status (interactional style), Rank (socialization and conditioning), and Power (transcendent), Pamela Hays’s ADDRESSING model and the nine areas of social inequality, including Agent and Target group member roles, and their corresponding developmental processes.
Group Training Workshop Participants will:

Explore playful and dynamic interactive activities with approaches to activism, conflict resolution, community building, and anti-oppression.
Improve abilities to effect change by playing with relationships to power structures using physical imagery and improvisational exercises.
Learn “otherizing” or distancing dynamics common to sexism, racism, ageism, xenophobia, homophobia, classism, and others.
Recognize the dynamics of unintentional prejudices and how they affect work in education, health, and human services.
Reduce tendencies to think and act in prejudicial ways, and effectively reduce prejudices in various situations.
Have a great deal of fun, come to value one another in a new way, and identify options for choosing vitality in life and work.

Content Areas to be Covered:

Social Diversity and Social Justice
Social Oppression and Liberation
Social Group Memberships: Agents and Targets
Social Identity Development Concepts
Diversity along the following:

– Age
– Disability
– Religious Culture
– Ethnicity
– Social Class
– Sexual Orientation
– Indigenous Background
– National Origin
– Gender
– Internalized Oppression

Privilege and Rights
Individual, Institutional, and Cultural Levels
Agent Role: Allyship
Target Role: Empowerment
Social and Individual Change
Action Planning

CREATIVITY
By creativity I don't just mean artistic expression, though it can certainly include that. Creativity involves being open to new ideas, unusual combinations, threads of curiosity that weave into a unique perspective or approach.

Your creative brilliance is a natural expression of your authenticity. There's no need to force yourself to be brilliant or creative - it emerges organically from following what makes you feel alive. It is part of your unique contribution to the flow of Life.

SENSITIVITY
Sensitivity is a doorway to deep attunement with subtle dimensions of your Being, and the origination point of your creative impulse. It is also a doorway to sensing the broader field of life, and being able to respond to and support the creative emergence in collective settings.

Your subtle sensing, attunement, and responsiveness are a much-needed counterpoint to the drivenness of our Western, logic- and control-oriented culture.

While there can be many challenges to being sensitively wired in a social environment that generally doesn't "get" it, we can learn to create a life that fits and allows us to contribute.

Delight in Your Creativity

Do you have a creative talent or dream that you've put on hold for too long?

Do you tend to sabotage your creative process by not getting started, not working consistently on your project, or not completing something?

All of us are naturally inventive beings, and as such, creativity is our birthright. As a species, we are intelligent, curious, and adaptive. Our amazing imagination keeps us moving forward towards an infinite horizon of possibilities.

When you watch children at play, you'll see this spontaneous creativity in action. Each child expresses it differently according to their abilities, interests, and temperament.

Somehow, most of us lose much of this imaginative interplay with each other and with our environment as we get older. We get stuck in habits and are weighed down by responsibilities and expectations.

Life becomes work. Time becomes crunched. We focus on efficiency, productivity, and taking care of business. Our creative dreams and impulses get relegated to the 'back burner.'

And one day, if we're lucky, we notice that the clock is ticking, that our soul is drying up, and that life has lost some color and feels more like shades of grey.

We become jealous of people who are living creative, colorful lives, and think to ourselves that "we should be more creative." We take an evening class in drawing or guitar.

This temporarily gives us a little life-juice, but we're still trying to add yet another "To Do" to our already overflowing list.

The problem is that we already ARE a vast fountain of creativity, and trying to make ourselves be more creative is a dead-end street. We'll exhaust ourselves trying.

Instead, we need to look closely at what prevents us from accessing and expressing our imagination, and living a creative life... including giving birth to and completing creative projects.

If we can recognize how we block our natural genius and creative impulses, then it becomes possible to liberate them!

As blocks soften, heal, and dissolve, you become more free to express your creativity in your favorite artistic medium(s).

But equally important, you become more free to live a creative life - spontaneously responding to events and situations in new ways, and opening to curiosity and play.

Creative flow becomes a way of life!

Many of us feel moved to respond to the suffering in the world, whether it is for the planet itself or for its various systems and/or inhabitants, including us humans.

However, in our urgency to make a difference, it can be easy to forego our own needs and rhythms, and end up wearing ourselves out. Other side-effects of over-zealous activism can include loss of joy, health problems, chronic frustration and resentment, and polarized relationships with mates, family, friends or colleagues.

Luckily, there other ways to relate to service that allow for a healthier and more effective outcome, for ourselves and for those we aim to serve.

I offer both group and one-on-one coaching to support people in relaxing into the core tensions at the heart of activist work, and allowing a healthier, more creative, and life-giving way of serving to evolve naturally from their compassionate hearts. In this way, I aim to support activism that is sustainable for the individual, as well as for the collective and for the planet.

For more information about this work, check my Awakened Activism website!

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