Sacred Well Studio offers bold, creative leadership forums where we can co-imagine and co-create a new future beyond our societal divides. We offer contemplative social arts-based gatherings and workshops to transform our personal, organizational or societal challenges into collective well-being and resilience. In other words, we immerse into the “Sacred Well” — a metaphor for our inner source of collective wisdom, healing, resilience and well-being.
Embodied Social Poetry:
Art of transforming our wounds into work of art: An emerging art form that blends poetry, Social Presencing Theatre, contemplative sketching and dialogue to uncover the healing message hidden within our bodies. These are open gatherings co-hosted with local communities or online where we gather to deeply sense and transcend our collective struggles. We have hosted over 20 poetry circles since 2019 on themes of healing intimate relationships & gender divides, cultivating resilience in the face of pandemic etc. Learn more about our exploration: Can Poetry Heal Collective Trauma?
Our ongoing & upcoming poetry circles include:
- POETea circles: In-person (in Pune) and online (starting soon) gatherings to attend to deep, unspoken matters of our heart over a cup of tea and poetry. Pls, follow us on social media for more information.
- Pathways to Resilience (restarting in 2024): An online creative journey based on poetic reflections & contemplative practices from the award-winning book “Midnight Journey of a Seed”. The book harvests lessons from the pandemic and offers pathways to transform any crisis into a resilient future.
Social Arts Studio for Societal Healing
We invite diverse leaders and changemakers for a 3-4 days gathering focussed on a particular sustainability challenge or collective trauma. We engage in Social Arts based creative processes to collectively witness our shared brokenness and longing to heal and transform the same. This unlocks the collective aspiration of the social field, and, harvest new insights, innovation ideas and deep collaborations. We share these stories of new future possibilities with more leaders in the field to enable larger shift.
These Social Arts Studios are designed in partnership with purpose-driven organisations and networks in various fields like Law & Justice (Agami), Anti-Trafficking (Kamonohashi & STCI), Grassroots women empowerment (SSP India), Children homes (Ashiyana), Youth development (UN Cambodia), Mental Wellbeing (Social Workers in Kerela) etc…
Previous workshops:
Pls write to us if you want to co-host any of these (or similar) embodied poetry gatherings or workshops in your community or organisation (sacredwell.in@gmail.com)
Pathways to Resilience: Over four 90 mins session, Manish Srivastava & Sonali Gera will take you through a creative & participative journey. You can join any number of sessions. We will use poetic reflections & contemplative practices from the book “Midnight Journey of a Seed”. The book harvests lessons from the pandemic and offers pathways to transform any crisis into a resilient future. Register at https://tinyurl.com/pathwaystoresilience
Deeper Dimensions of Diversity: We offer in-person and online workshops to explore– How we fully embrace the holistic feminine and masculine energies and empower feminine leadership at workplaces? This workshop is based on Sonali Gera‘s rich experience as an international facilitator of Diversity and Inclusion as well as embodied poetic insights from Manish’s first book (Trading Armour for a Flower: Rise of new masculine). The in-person workshop has been appreciated by D&I heads and experts working across business, social enterprise and defence sectors. Online version of the same has been offered across Latin America and Taiwan.
Field Beyond Right & Wrong: Healing collective wounds through contemplative social art. In this online workshop, we will unlock the embodied wisdom of our social body to explore the field beyond our pressing societal divides. Earlier workshops were hosted in the context of the Indian Migrant Crisis, Conflict Transformation Summit, etc.
Dignity of Labour: An action-learning dialogue to support COVID relief, as well as systems change work to transform the societal divide built on the apathy and exploitation of the poor working class (labour)
Social Art of Leadership & Systems Transformation:
(A Social Presencing Theatre in-person foundation workshop)
Social Presencing Theater (SPT) is a social art form that integrates systems thinking, mindfulness and contemplative arts to help a social system make visible its deep patterns of stuckness and tap into its source of inspiration and creativity. This method has been co-developed by experts at MIT & Presencing Institute, USA. It has been applied successfully in international governments, UN, MNC and civil society organizations worldwide.
Upcoming Workshop: Date to be announced
In the 3 days workshop we will learn SPT practices and apply them to generate new creative insights for our personal, organizational and societal challenges. Read more here- https://sacredwell.in/socialarts-spt/
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