hanafubuki. Facilitating a texture of belonging
This workshop will be in English, but we can organise bilingual Dutch English. Let us know if you prefer that.
A workshop for trainers, teachers, team coaches, group facilitators, social activists, artists, social workers, agilists, workshop facilitators, community builders...
How to describe the space in which we live as a community? How to ensure safe space? How to provide for the conditions on which brave space can emerge?
Blood and vessels and the heartbeat of space cannot be copy/pasted. Every moment and every place is a cooperative act of re-imagination and re-invention.
This workshop is inspired by kata - a concept with roots in Japanese monastic tradition and martial arts. By repeating a certain movement methodically and consistently, a pattern of routine slowly emerges. It becomes engrained in muscle memory until it happens by reflex - freed from any cognitive dissonance or other forms of disharmony. Kata are a way of doing things, applying patterns of thought and spirit and mind and body and soul.
Kata can not be copied. Kata can only be nurtured.
How do we facilitate a community into embracing organic growth of routines in its identity and its processes? How can routines or patterns be of help to change our community or organization into an autonomous, strong, healthy, and studious learning organization? How do kata sustain a constant drive of inquiry, curiosity, keenness to explore the unknown?
This workshop combines conversations, play, outsider art, choreography, embodiment, and teachings taken a/o from Shintoism, Taoism, martial art, and the teachings of the actor, playwright, aesthetician, and Zen Master Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清) - but also from Mike Rother's Toyota Kata (2010), Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed (1979), and many other sources.
The impossibility of being close during pandemic times strongly enhanced our belief in the importance of relationships and the need for safe spaces, or better, brave spaces. So, over the last year, we went inward and focused on teamwork, personal development, and coaching. We dived deep into learning dynamics and discovered the importance of de-learning. The goal was to be ready, together with the opening of the building, to share our knowledge. But the further we went, the better we knew: there is a lot more to learn. Along our journey, we met the most inspiring people. Amongst them the people behind Beyond Borders. So we collaborated and created an open workshop series to share with you. - Team Timelab
We are proud and excited to invite you to HANAFUBUKI, our first series of 3 workshops on facilitating a texture of belonging. On becoming an invisible facilitator, on routines and the art of kindness. These workshop series is part of the Brave Space project that is part of our topic of Redefining Cultural Space.
Fee
You can subscribe to one or go for the complete triple workshop. We ask you to pick the contribution fee that fits you best. Standard fee covers our costs. As a non-profit organisation, we use the support contribution to keep our program and building open and flexible.
*Hana is Japanese for cherry blossom and fubuki means snow storm. We associate the cherry blossom with beauty and peace and heaven and bliss, while we associate the snowstorm with cold and discontent and resistance. Literally it is a snowstorm of cherry blossoms. Hanafubuki means using the force of the snowstorm to create an environment of beauty and bliss. A metaphor for a blossoming and powerful community.
More about the trainer : Francis Laleman, Resourceful exformation, 2020, available at Timelab bookshop (20 eu)