Welcome / Bienvenus / Welkom I am very delighted that you are interested in the workshop Your Unique Green Life Choices that I offer in collaboration with Greenpeace. On this page I will explain a bit more about the workshop.
Workshop: Your Unique Green Life Choices Do you want to live a ‘green life’ in modern times and do you often feel squeezed between the two of them? You want to have a new smartphone because your old one is too slow. Or you want to make a weekend trip to Barcelona, because it is three times cheaper and two times faster than the train. You are very aware of the fact that your choices and actions leave an ecological footprint. You know about the environmental impact of new clothes, electronic devices and flying. And you feel that you could and want to do more to reduce your ecological footprint, but you feel confused where to start and you regularly feel you are not doing enough. Then I invite you to join me in this workshop.
What will we do?For this workshop you will define an environmental theme that matters to you and where you feel you can and want take actions in your personal life to reduce your ecological footprint. This could be reducing plastic in your life, or reducing the impact of your purchases of electronica, clothes or food. Or it could be that you want to minimize the CO2 footprint of your travels.
In the workshops you will explore the environmental theme that you selected and explore it from the perspective of your “Save the Planet” part. The part of you that gets very excited to live a more sustainable life. And we will see if there is a part of you that you feel is “Holding-You-Back” to take actions. You might identify it as your “Self Concerned” part or “My Contribution is Too Small Anyway” or something totally else might come up. You will bring alive these two parts of you through guided movement, drawing and writing exercises. For instance you will explore the way your “Save the Planet” part walks, his gestures and connect to his/her feelings, dreams, needs and fears. And we will do the same for the part that we feel is holding us back. You might discover that your “Save the Planet" is continuously demanding too far reached goals and ending up being chronically frustrated about him or herself. Or maybe you will see that the voice of your “Holding-You-Back” part is in fact linked with a strong need for taking care of your own needs. So we will creatively research these two parts in ourselves and make them dialogue with each other and with the group through movement, drawing and writing.
And at the end of the workshop you will create a personal dedication to reduce your footprint and define a concrete step that you would like to take. Intention behind the workshopThis workshop drives on the premise that our choices and actions, even the ones we make while we know they are less sustainable, are based on our underlying dreams, needs and fears. And that we can access these hidden dreams, needs and fears through somatic work and creative explorations. It is based on the belief that when we become more aware of our drives to live more sustainable and that what stops of from taking actions, we are capable of making better choices, instead of letting unconscious processes hijack our choices. And it is my personal belief that when we know our dreams, needs and fears, we can playfully and joyfully start to take concrete steps towards creating our unique way of green living that honors the planet and ourselves.
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Practical Details Workshop This workshop will be offered two times.
When : Weekend 15 & 16 June, Daily Schedule : Sa + Su 10:00 – 17:00 o’clock Location : Greenpeace Brussels, Haachtsesteenweg, 159, 1030 Brussel Price : Free Maximum : 8 participants per workshop Language : English, Français, Nederlands Inscription : e-mail me at dansecontactimprovisation[at]gmail.com Engagement & InscriptionEngagement means that you will be participating in one of the two weekend workshops. And that you also will do a preparatory exercise (at home – ca. 20-30 min.) to define the environmental theme you like to work on. And an integration exercise when you return home after the workshop (at home – ca. 20-30 min.).
You are kindly requested to inscribe yourself early, because places are limited and because you will be asked to do a preparatory exercise. Just take into account that the group is relatively small and that when you inscribe you engage yourself to join me and the group in one of the two weekend workshops. This workshop is offered for free in collaboration with Greenpeace. Deadline for inscription is 27 April. For inscription or any further questions about the workshop, please feel free to send me an e-mail on dansecontactimprovisation[at]gmail.com (je kunt me ook in het Nederlands schrijven ou écrire en français) About me and my Green Life ChoicesI am Liesbeth de Jong, and as a five-year-old I also cycled to school despite of heavy rain, because I had heard that the car was ‘bad for the environment’. Even if my parents brought my sister to school by car, I was insisting to take bike. As a student at Wageningen University I followed a course in environmental history, and I remember that I felt shocked by the way many environmental problems were (and are) being ignored. And now, when I myself am faced with choices, I catch myself on my own tendency to ignore the effect of my choices and think that there is still time.
I often feel guilty about the ecological footprint I leave on this planet. And I feel curious how to give this small ‘Save-the-Planet’ five-year-old kid a stronger voice again. So that is why I decided to create this workshop which marries my love for moving and my desire for humans to live more in integrity with the Planet. This workshop is an experiment like the rest of my life. Can't wait to get started?Here a link to calculate your hidden CO2 footprint to see where you can still reduce the most in French or in Dutch . this is a very simple and effective tool developed by Babette Porselijn
Or go to this website which is also including other aspects of our ecological footprint, like packaging. A tool developed by Ecological Footprint Network Inscription : send me an e-mail me at dansecontactimprovisation[at]gmail.com Frequently Asked questionsDo I need experience in dance?
The simple answer is: no, not at all! In this short video I share a movement exploration to give you a taste of the work. Just listen to my voice to guide you into the movement. What language will we speak ?
Th main language will be English, with punctual translation to French and Dutch. I say a bit more about it in this video. This workshop is part of my last year in Life / Art Process training and is developed in this context with my supervisors of Tamalpa Institute (France and USA).
Greenpeace is supporting me in the logistics of the workshop and is very kind to offer a space to work in. Greenpeace is in not involved in creating the content for this workshop. |