In this embodied and participatory session, we’ll use a simple relational practice to explore the capacity to feel, rather than rationalize, the impact of our harms and mistakes. We’ll explore ways to relate to and metabolize harm beyond the socially sanctioned and somatically conditioned impulses to fix, justify, shame, collapse, and isolate. We’ll wonder about what possibilities, however humble, might open with this capacity to be more deeply impacted by our impacts -- together.

BIO

Elias is a facilitator and guide for individuals, groups and organizations. His work is to empower embodied belonging through Truth, Healing, and Wholeness. Contact with wilderness saved his life as a younger man and inspired him to live and learn in communities ranging from traditional villages to contemporary Ecovillages in 11 different countries.

Elia is a Cofounder of Grieving Man (https://linktr.ee/grievingman), a cofounding teacher of Great Earth School (greatearthschool.com), and the founding director of Cascadian Men's Alliance. He has been working with men and masculinity throughout the US since 2018 with several organizations including MMankind Project, Sacred Sons, and Kinhood.

He currently lives close to the woods and waves on the Olympic peninsula in WA state, and can often be found singing, dancing or breaking bread wherever the village fire is burning bright. See more at EcoSomaBe.com.