A space designed foR radical belonging, for Black & Queer folks only.

healing & togetherness with ourselves, others and the Land can only be birthed when we saturate our souls & spirits with the possibility of creation & imagination.

let's imagine, together, what it means for us to belong to ourselves and each other.

Program

Rage ceremony: releasing the rage inside

Grief ceremony: transmuting Grief into gratitude

hypno-poetic trance to connect deeper to our selves following the 4 elements: Fire, Air, Water & Earth

Time to connect & be Black and Queer together !

Logistics

When? Sunday, February 26th, 3-6pm

Where? Casakúa

Naunystrasse 72, 10997 Berlin

Price?11-33 euros

if you can't afford it but wish to come, please reach out

BLACK INTERIORITY

what does it mean to be Black beyond

& despite white supremacy?

how do we reclaim the spaces we’ve been stolen, starting with our bodies, emotional landscapes & psyches?

in a world committed to disappearing us, how do we create worlds in which we already belong?

SOMATIC MEMORY

we take the shape of what we practice most (we're always practicing something).

how do we take the shape of what we most care about in a society designed to terrorize us, while honoring the wisdom that blooms at the intersection of fear, rage & grief?

how do we, in the secret of our bodies,

re-member the abundance that we are?

QUEER INTIMACIES

creating new ways of being closer to ourselves & one another, in a society that thrives on our disconnection, is revolutionary.

because we are constantly trying to survive white supremacy, we often lack the time, energy and the resources to dive deep into the intricacies of being in relationship with each other.

if trauma happens in relationship, healing has to happen there too.

✨Join me on Sunday, 5.2 at Praise studio for my new workshop:

Transformative Justice embodied: the somatics of survival in conflicts

✨Transformative Justice (TJ) calls for our capacity to acknowledge & face conflict courageously. We can not be abolitionist AND conflict avoidant. For a lot of us however, conflicts activate our nervous system in ways that often feel dangerous and unsafe.

How can we practice making more space for conflict in the body, as well as witnessing & honoring the wisdom of our trauma & resilience responses, whatever they are?

✨Somatics (how trauma informs the body) teaches us that we take the shape of what we practice most. If what we practice most in our relationships to the people we claim we love is disposability, refusal to communicate, avoidance, how can we stop a carceral state? How can we abolish the police if we are not capable to hold conflict with the people we call our friends? 

✨By noticing our trauma responses to conflict, hold their wisdom and calm our nervous system, we become capable to hold the complexity we need to engage in generative conflict and repair. 

Register here.

Transformative Justice (TJ) workshop

Imagine a world where we choose to address and heal trauma, instead of avoiding or reenacting it.Where: @Queeres Jugendzentrum Lambda BB, Sonnenburger Str. 69, 10437 BerlinWhen: Tuesday 13/12/2022 & Wednesday 14/12/2022 3pm-6pmPrice: QTIBIPOC only, for FREEWhat to bring? Notebook and pens, water, masks and come tested if possible !IMPORTANT: There will be available free tests @Lambda for people to test before starting. Please make sure to wear a mask and be safe !No one is disposable, thank you !THE PLAN:Tuesday 13/12/2022 3-6pm: Introduction: what is TJ? Why TJ?Conflict & accountability: centered accountability in the face of conflict using the 4 elements (Fire, Air, Water, Earth)Wednesday 14/12/2022 3-6pm:"How to say sorry: a 3-hour workshop to craft and give apologies that bring us closer to ourselves and others”

TJ is a framework created by marginalized communities of survivors of violence who did not and could not rely on institutional forms of "Justice" (courts, police...).

This framework, unlike the systems of "Justice" we know, calls for radical healing as it cares to address the roots of violence to break generational cycles of harm, using accountability as a tool of agency and repair, as well as centering the voices & healing of survivors instead of the punishment of harm-doers.

TJ, in this way, is like a mycelium network:

mycelium (plural:mycelia) is a root-like structure of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like fungus that breaks down and absorbs surrounding organic matter into nutrients that can be absorbed and used as nourishment.

TJ seeks to break down violence and trauma into agency and accountability so that Care becomes an active and automatic response in each and every interaction.

Bring your pod, your squad, your loved ones, bring someone ! Tell every body !

Violence is hurting our community and we can not expect our governments to care for us. Let’s do that together.

Register here.

Build an ecosystem of Resilience, Healing & Care, the workshop

An ecosystem of Care allows us to create, maintain and sustain our healing process, even during the most challenging times.

It mirrors the one Nature has created to maintain Life.

Come create an ecosystem of Care alone or with friends !

A free zine will be provided !

When: Monday 12/12/2022

Where: @Queeres Jugendzentrum Lambda BB

Sonnenburger Str. 69, 10437 Berlin

Price: QTIBIPOC only, for FREE

What to bring? Notebook and pens, water, masks and come tested if possible !

IMPORTANT: There will be available free tests @Lambda for people to test before starting. Please make sure to wear a mask and be safe !

No one is disposable, thank you !

Who: Elia diane Fushi Bekene (they/them/theirs), or Care, is a light-skinned Black trans non binary trauma-informed Care practitioner and artist who works on re-membering experiences of awe, miracles, connection & Care. Their work blooms at the intersection of Black interiority, somatic memory & queer intimacies.

They have been particularly tender about biomimicry for a while now, especially applied to practices of Care & healing.

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*an experimental workshop for Queer people to explore, discuss & reshape the ways in which we relate to ourselves & each other, despite trauma

*somatic exercises

**alone reflective time

***group discussions

What if we loved our selves so radically, such as the other feels free (to do the same)?

What if true wealth started with returning to the miraculous nature of each other?

What if we felt, deeply in our somas, how needed we are to each other?

What if we realised how much we long for belonging, safety and dignity, how much we yearn to return to each other?

Harm is a wound to our wholeness,

it convinces us that in this abundant world,

emotional and material scarcity are our lot.

We are born in each other's hands, that means we were made to hold and be held.

In the miracle of connection and belonging, can we walk each other home again?

When: Aug. 25th 2022, 6pm (2 hours)

Where: Haus der Statistik, Otto-Braun-Straße 70-72, 10178 Berlin

Suggested donation: 22-44euros

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This workshop is donation based, no one will be turned down because of a lack of funds. Pay Black femmes however !

You can also pay forward for someone who can not afford it at this time.

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In this hypno-poetic trance you will be asked to be present with an inner conflict that has been present, that you have been putting off or simply fearing. Maybe it’s this thing you think of at night or the first thing you think about in the morning that, someway, somehow, just like the tides, always comes back. 

Drawing from hypnosis, reiki and other meditation technics, you will be guided to stay with the conflict without trying to solve it. Before we succomb to the rush to change, fix, apologize, bargain or self-blame, what about we just listened, without trying to change or fix? Sometimes, focusing on being “solution driven” or the “problem solver” keeps us from actively listening to our inner conflict, blocking ourselves from receiving its innate wisdom. 

Like anything else, chances are your internal conflict just wants to be heard, seen, acknowledged.

Note that this is not a workshop for you to find the perfect solution to your conflict. While this can very much happen, my practices are not looking for “immediate, perfect results” but rather focus on an iterative, non linear process of witnessing. As I often realise with my clients, witnessing is scared work. Healing starts with noticing. But healing is messy, and our pain can not be framed as a “problem” that needs fixing or one solution.

What we need however is to reconcile with pain through ceremony. This is one of them, I hope, for you and for me.

Exchange is 22 euros. You can register here.

!Note that this workshop is part of a bundle (🥀Moving thru conflict🥀 + 💌Forgiving our selves workshop💌, happening on Saturday 23th April 7pm CET and Sunday 24th April 7pm CET for 33€ instead of 44€)

You can purchase the 2 for 33€, instead of 44€. For the bundle, please click here.

To know more about the values that inform my work and my terms & conditions, please click here.

When conflict arises and we feel wronged, we are often asked to “forgive and forget”. However this doesn’t allow us to listen to our emotions and keeps us from their wisdom, stopping the natural process of resolution as within, so without. It can also be shame inducing  (If you do not forget then you must be doing something wrong). It also completely overlooks our body’s wisdom: our bodies keep us from forgetting to prevent further pain. This technology is not a proof of lack of intelligence but rather, ancestral somatic wisdom.

In this workshop, you will not be asked to “forgive and forget” but rather be invited to forgive your selves and reframe: over time, the pains we’ve experienced look different IF acknowledged & taken care of…

In this workshop, you will be guided in a hypno poetic trance to:

🐞Reconnect with the parts of you that have been hurt, let down, overlooked 

🐞allow you to give yourselves the grace you often give others 

🐞make more room for a new story to emerge 

🐞alleviate feelings of guilt, shame & 

🐞stop being led by fear and instead lead with curiosity 

🐞Slowly start the process of reconciling with your pain (vs suppressing or avoiding it)

!Note that this workshop is part of a bundle (Moving thru conflict + Forgiving our selves workshop, happening on Saturday 23th April 7pm CET and Sunday 24th April 7pm CET for 33euros instead of 44euros)

You can purchase the 2 for 33euros, instead of 44euros, here

To know more about the values that inform my work and my terms & conditions, please click here.

a weekend of healing, y’all.

Making space for the uncomfortable is where the real healing starts.

In this bundle, you get to attend both workshops:

🥀Moving thru conflict🥀 / Saturday 23rd April 7pm CET (22euros)

💌Forgiving our selves workshop💌 / Sunday 24th April 7pm CET(22euros)

FOR ONLY 33 EUROS instead of 44 EUROS.

To register, please click here.

To know more about the values that inform my work and my terms & conditions, please click here.