Strozzi Institute For Somatics

Virtual programs sis provides the following virtual programs to educate the public about somatics, provide free and low-cost access to somatic training, and to help build community among our students and others interested in learning more about strozzi somatics. A.community dojo the community dojo is a free monthly online 1-hour session with experienced strozzi teachers. The online community dojo focuses on the fundamentals of the somatic method, and provides a welcoming community designed to accommodate all practice levels. In each session, strozzi teachers lead practices and introduce a new somatic application for participants' growth and development. To date, approximately 100 people have joined these sessions each month. We record each monthly session and make them available for free on our website. B.free online webinars every quarter, we offer free online webinars with speci?c topics such as how somatic practice can assist changemaker leaders to have more impact, harnessing somatics to overcome fear, and using somatics to navigate change and build resilience, among others. We offer selected webinars as recordings for free on our website. C.return to center: a weekly practice online subscription for graduates of our in-person courses, we offer a low-cost subscription to a weekly one-hour practice session, to support people in their arc of transformation. An additional bipoc-only practice session once a month is included. These sessions are led by experienced strozzi somatics teachers. We currently have 100 subscribers. D.self-paced learning online learning (evergreen) our website offers low-cost self-paced virtual learning, as modular courses and as shorter workshops, at low cost, to support greater access to strozzi somatics. E.embodying equity to support our commitment to sourcing from the transformative power of somatics to reckon with the wounds of systemic oppression, especially racism, patriarchy, and power-over we run an application based scholarship program for all our training classes, monthly race-based caucus spaces for staff and teachers, and integrate to our teacher training embodying power with and undoing the harm of systemic oppression. F.la (embodied leadership assessment) the ela-4 is a beta version of this, and is a unique, reliable and statistically-normed and calibrated instrument that measures embodied leadership ability. It gives users insight into their capabilities relative to peers, their leadership performance, the perception others have of them, and ways to take action immediately. The assessment and full report are completely free of charge.

Organization work and partnership trainings a.through somatics training agreements, sponsors interested in engaging sis to conduct a somatics training course internationally may do so. Sis provides the curriculum and qualified teachers, while the sponsor produces the training. B.through bespoke training agreements, sis may design bespoke curriculum and training classes to support organizations internally, using the same foundational methodology behind the public basic programs.