Join Madelanne Rust-D’Eye to explore what it means to transform power at the deepest level in our group cultures. Learn practical, embodied tools to engage with power, not as something ‘out there,’ but as a flow of aliveness we can organise and channel intentionally in our minds, bodies, and relationships. Understand why it is essential, as we shift towards a power-with paradigm in our organisations and groups, that we also attend to this unspoken, intimate domain of power — to release dynamics of inequality we carry within us, to heal the wounds of the past, and to potentiate a more just, joyful, and interconnected world.
Cost: £45 - £65
Pre-registration required via Eventbrite.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:
A conversation introducing an embodied, relational way of understanding power — one that differs from how power is typically framed in Western culture
Madelanne sharing the life experiences and personal journey that have shaped her perspective on power
Experiential activities that open a deeper, embodied engagement with power as an embodied and relational flow
An introduction to integration and inequality as two key organising patterns power moves through in groups
Open space for questions, conversation, and debate
Core somatic practices
The workshop centers on experiential engagement with a few key practices, and on observing their impact on group process:
Grounding
Witnessing sensation
Staying with sensation
Speaking from sensation
Working with the group field
Experiential engagement with the nervous system as the ground from which group dynamics arise (some prior understanding is helpful, though not required)
Exploring the somatic roots of the Drama Triangle, and how it anchors inequality in our embodied group process
Practicing attunement as the basis for relationship — to self, to other, and to what's emergent between us
New metaphors and concepts for power-with, to anchor patterns of integration in our embodied group process
Shared Inquiry
Space for participants to speak from their own life experience — personal and/or professional — to enrich our collective understanding of power as an embodied and relational flow
PARTICIPANTS WILL COME AWAY WITH:
A practical understanding of how to bring embodied experience into group processes more actively, safely, and respectfully
A new understanding of power — and how to work with it more consciously in the embodied, relational domain
A real-time encounter with the non-verbal, connective reality we carry within and between ourselves
Greater self-awareness of the wounds of connection we carry individually and collectively, along with strategies for addressing them
A renewed sense of possibility — and new leverage points for change — in your own group systems
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
Openness
Some previous experience with somatic practice is helpful, but not required
A willingness to listen deeply and receive new perspectives
A willingness to move your body and use your voice
To Bring
Loose, comfortable clothing you can move in
A notebook, water bottle, and snacks
DIRECTIONS AND PARKING:
Caddaford Barns Studio is a 5 minute drive from the A38 Devon Expressway, between Exeter and Plymouth, just off the A384 Buckfastleigh to Totnes road.
Directions from London /Bristol/ Exeter: Take A38 direction Plymouth. After about 25 miles from M5/ Exeter, turn off at the Dartbridge exit for Buckfastleigh/ Totnes, see also brown signs for South Devon Steam Railway and Butterfly Farm. Turn left off slip road onto A384 direction Totnes. Take 2nd left, signposted Caddaford (about 1 mile from A38). Follow lane for about 1/4 mile, you will pass some polytunnels and 2 cottages on your right - they have the same postcode as us but don't stop there! Carry on another few hundred yards up the lane and you will arrive at Caddaford Farm, you will see a white house on your left set back from the lane.
From Totnes: Take A384 towards Buckfastleigh. Cross Riverford Bridge with traffic lights, then take 2nd right (next one after Charlie’s Cross & Ben’s Farm Shop), signposted to Riverford Field Kitchen, Landscove and Wolston Green. Turn off the main road, go about a quarter of a mile and take 1st left, before the road bends to the right and goes downhill. Follow this lane along then down a steep hill, Caddaford Barns are at the bottom of the hill on your right. There is a sign on the wall.
From Plymouth: Follow A38 for approx. 20 miles, take Dartbridge exit, signposted for Buckfastleigh, Buckfast, Totnes. Turn right off slip road towards Totnes. Follow directions as per above.
From Buckfastleigh: Cross over A38 to join A384 towards Totnes, follow directions as per above.
Parking & access to the studio: IMPORTANT: Please park EITHER on the concrete yard opposite the farmhouse OR on the lane, but not in the courtyard which is reserved for parking for the tenants of the studio flat and the holiday accommodation. Upon parking, cross the lane and walk up the farmhouse driveway. The entrance to the studio is just inside the passageway on your right. The glass entrance door to the studio is immediately on your left.