Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Cultural Leadership Program
Supporting Cultural Leaders to Create and Sustain Social Change.
Banff Centre Leadership programs integrate the power of the arts, the wisdom of Indigenous practice, and the extraordinary beauty of Banff National Park to prepare and empower the next generation of leaders.
Integrating an Embodied Approach to Transformational Change
As part of a dynamic faculty ensemble, I contribute a thread of embodied learning to the leadership development process. Embodiment integrates felt-sense experience, emotion and thinking as the basis by which we understand self, others and the world we are embedded in.
At Banff Centre, I facilitate embodied practices that cultivate attention, awareness, resilience, empathy and collaboration. These practices are designed to support processes of self-reflection, relational engagement, and co-creation. Embodied practice helps us challenge default ways of being no longer aligned with our values, making room for new possibilities to emerge.
Open your gaze and see everything at once.
Cast your eyes onto the long horizon.
Lift your cheekbones.
Connect to a sense of joy and expansiveness.
Breathe deeply.
