 Okay, that's another mistake. It's like you say an ad and you say, like, nah, I'm hired. Okay, no, no, we're in it. You don't know what the result is. That's a 6-1-5. What did you say? 13. I didn't know yesterday. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. It's like a guy on the phone always talking to his girlfriend. It feels so good. But then you would have appreciated your next mission. Well, I'm still arguing about the best out of Cheetah. It was good for me. It's not going to tell us. It takes some pride in some ways. It's just keep going. Higher level. Everybody does it. Now, I think that whatever they put their soul into, actually, it's higher than 90 hours. And what do you say? Because they always give us names. Is it Black Star? Jewel? Jewel? Wait a minute. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Get there. Pun curve. Cut off the strings and do everything, whatever it's in the end, then they start to listen touses, but like what we are being創wed across the camera. is that you are divided and then you will have issues with what's important. Well, I see what's going on. We also have Dance NYC, and the partner was here, and they'll be sharing words, recorded from the World Bankies for sharing, and I hope it was informative for you. Let me see, yes, oh. Yeah, oh, yeah, so we do what we need. So that's great. And then we also have the field. So the field, Sean is excited about the continued sponsor that we have as well as partners, and appreciate all of their support. And so I want to invite from Dance NYC, Alejandra, so that she can share a few words with you, and then I'll come back and we'll really get the flow started. Cool? Yes. Yeah, I think I got to come back to you, too. Good evening, everyone, my name is Alejandra Lucas. He went this, and I am the programs manager at Dance NYC. She's celebrating and holding this space together. Something that we really value about this space is that because it's a yearly gathering, it gives us the opportunity to reflect, to think about the growth, think about everything. And should you need anything from us? We are here. Thank you. There are two women in this room that I love nearly, that are close friends of mine. And so they are the co-facilitators for the gathering this year, and they are backed by popular demands. Okay, so any time that we are going to get full, and we're going to get what we need to, and so if you don't know about them, you're going to find out today. Yeah. And then you're going to find out some more as you look them up on their website and everything, see all the powerful work that they're doing in communities and beyond. And Deira and to Camille Brown and Dancers, and all of you who are here and present with us, you made it through the cold, and I know some of y'all have tried, some of you are near, and you still made it here. And so I just thank you for your presence. I'm glad to meet you all. Today, we are going to spend some time thinking about self-care, which is a lot of it more hopefully. And really start to think about self-care as wellness, as self-worth. And we want to guide you all through a journey that hopefully will be self-reflective, but also then be a place to then reflect out into the world. You want to move forward in your own lives in 2018 and beyond. And together today, we're going to go around the room and have folks say who they are, their names, how they want to be identified, and that includes gender pronoun or other ways of identifying. And then answer this or respond to this prompt wellness is and fill in the blank phrase that introduces us to you and not to be referred to. And fill in the blank, wellness is. And we will go clockwise from the person who decides to start this introduction. And for the folks who are supporting behind the scenes, this includes you as well. We're all a community, so we would like to be referred to and or gender pronoun. And wellness is fill in the blank. Who'd like to go first? Oh, hey! Hi, my name is Valerie Rochon. Valerie Rochon is fine. Wellness is taking care of yourself, spiritually, mentally, physically, communally, to me that's, it's probably some others, but the rest of you will say them. Okay, and we're going to take you around this way. Okay. All right, we can start with being out of here. Oh, oh yeah, we're out of here. Well, I can't videotape myself unfortunately. Right. I'll do it. My name is Stoke. I'd be referred to as videographer. That sounds pretty cool. And can you repeat the last question? Wellness is. Wellness is ever flowing. My name is Rare. I'm an artist, photographer, singer, Margo Schild, and wellness is living in the. Indira, good wine like you drink. Wellness is the ability to say no. No, that's okay. That's okay. Come on, let's have a drink. Dick! She, her, hers, is being whole. Radegram, known usually as Mama Brown, she, wellness is contentment, peace, meditation, and sleeping good at night. I'm Natasha Lee. My pronoun is she, and wellness is Christ. My preferred gender pronouns are she, hers, or they, them. Wellness to me is having the space to care for things that are important to you. My name's Ashley. She, her, hers. Wellness is long, long baths in the middle of the day. Being okay with where you are. You would be next unless you are, I'm standing for participant. LeAmbi, LeAmbi Keys, choreographer, she, and wellness to me is survival. Say that again. Survival. Survival. Being able to perceive what your needs are and the. We have a foundation, and we're trying to bring the arts into central Pennsylvania, and we need to do that with ladies. And I thought this was a great opportunity for people to come and meet someone else's rights. Do you have a gender pronoun or another way you would like to be referred to in the sense? Just me. Okay. And wellness is what to you? And wellness is the positive energy that we're trying to inject into our community. All right. Back to the front, yes. My name is Viper. I'm Viper, I'm a dancer and choreographer. She made it all appropriate. And wellness is what she's doing. I was on the nature of you as a choreographer, a singer, a songwriter, she, her, her. Wellness is what we're called like in winter, and maybe she would be shaped like that. Hi, my name is Martha. I'm a volunteer. I'm a choreographer. I'm a dancer. I'm a choreographer. I'm a choreographer. I'm a volunteer with Dancing Like State. My pronouns are her, she. I have to echo others who said that wellness is a positive energy. That's my name. That's my name. I want us to identify you. In this room full of all these old people. It's okay if you don't. Okay, it's a big question. I'm still trying to figure out what answers to some of you need to move on. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here. Okay. Giselle Mason, dancer and choreographer. She, her, hers. Wellness is spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional wholeness. I'm Jill Williams, director of Clark Center NYC. For me, wellness means trying to eliminate as much stress in life as possible. Ms. Kelly Thompson, she, her, hers. Wellness for me would be being willing to continually redefine yourself and to go on the healing journey over and over again in life. I'm Maria Daniels, she, her, hers. I'm gonna have to agree with the good night's sleep. My name is Remy Harris, she, her, hers. Wellness for me right now is taking care of myself before I take care of myself. My name is Brenda Dixon-Gott. I do everything I'm asked to do, like whether it's performing, or writing, or moderating, or consulting, or mentoring, or, and all of that somehow connected with the dance field. She, her, I'm just gonna say, is a wellspring. A wellspring of, as I was speaking, and for me, wellness is warmth. I'm Shalewa, I'm, I'm, I'm ready. I am a choreographer, performer, writer, and teacher. My pronouns are she, her, hers. Wellness is maintaining connection between my body and its processes and my community and my experience of the divine. Hello, I'm Carol Marie Wester. I am a dancer, performer, activist, researcher. I've heard, we've heard too, as she, her, hers. And for me, wellness is active. It is all that I do to affirm, honor, affirm, honor, and flourish in the best of who I can be in any given moment. Hello, my name is Katrina Reed. Gender pronouns she, her, and wellness is a practice of listening to your intuition. Kayla Hamilton, she, her, hers. Wellness is taking positives throughout the day. My name is Crystal Davis. She, her, hers. And wellness to me is about integration and balance of all different forms of care. I think the pronouns that she, her, wellness is self-love, I think it would be pretty creative, pronouns are she, her, hers. Wellness to me is gratitude, letting the imperfections of all us shine through, let those two be our true selves. So we can express our true selves to others. My name is Brittany, she, her, hers. And wellness is living my truth and making my own decisions and just giving as much love as I can about draining myself. My name is Ebony Noel Golden. Pronouns she, her, they. And wellness is living in my passion, living in joy, undeterred, and doing those things that I feel are most about my passion and my joy. And wellness is being present, wellness is tending to all of my needs, is saying no, wellness is finishing my sleep. Hi everybody, I'm Lucy, teaching artist, and wellness just touching and agreeing with what I was already going for in this space. Wellness is peace. Destiny D. Rock Young, dancer and artistic director. And wellness to me is acceptance, forgiveness, evaluation, power and healing of the mind, body. Hey everyone, I'm Marcia, performing and teaching artist. I identify as she, her. And wellness for me is just acknowledging, adjusting and believing. Hello, my culture keeper and creator. And wellness to me is ritual practices in love of self and others. Hi, I'm Vashon Sanders Ward and standing in my faith. I'm a program director, mother and advocate and she, her. And wellness is standing in your truth. Hey y'all, hey. Hey. Also, Rabanessa, she, her, hers. Wellness is being aware of the flow. All right, so thank you all for already a toolkit and a buffet of practices of wellness and resilience that we can use. If you've heard something that you court with you, hopefully you make a note of that and take that with you in strategy session. And it's the perfect time for it. We're living in a moment where, not unlike moments, previous moments to this moment as communities, as artists, are kind of the medicine that we need to take us through and to reveal wholehearted and human. This moment culturally, politically, economically has some folks living on the edge of what may seem like breakdown. But what we are sitting at this evening but also in just in our collective work and in individual work, what does it mean to not just survive but to thrive? What does it mean to center yourself individually and your community's collective, not just this generation, but generations to come? And so this is also a celebration of what we know to what we know, what we know for generations, what our families have known for generations as a relation beyond breakdown and survival. And that we've been talking about and I feel the encounters between the individual and the collective and where we're well-missed. We begin to think about a bridge between the individual and the collective. And so what does it mean to have these kind of toolkits, medicine bags, tools and strategies in them that have kept us here and for generations? And what does it mean to build that? So we're here to talk about that. We're here to talk about how to sustain from that space, you know, to know what's, for me, it has become increasingly important relationships to center family because those are the things that I feel in my life are most under attack right now. And getting the way of all of the other things that I wanna do, there's no joy. So whenever there's an opportunity to be in a space to think deeply and create in this time and this moment with us to share, to hear, to deepen and to connect around resilience and struggle and strife. So I want us to, I would like for us to just continue to think about how that vibration and that side inward and what we wanna project to our broader community as it relates to filling up that resilience and that wellness toolkit. Am I making sense? Yeah, okay, all right. Set the, what do you call that? The container. Yeah. But this will pretty soon you will be, you know, doing some reflective work, a group work to continue this conversation. All right now, write a three page manifesto on wellness, go. All right, but maybe at the end that you find yourself in a comfortable place which could stretch your legs and find another place in the room. Maybe you wanna take a seat on the floor but I want you to find yourself in a comfortable place. Ready, set, boom, go. Finding what's the people that are here that you're coming and really excited to see but also connect with your breath and just take notice of where your breath is, is it? Just take notice of where your breath is and then I'm gonna end up breathing in through the nose, filling up your bellies and exhaling. If we're sitting up, having our feet flat on the floor that puts us connected to that breath, sometimes if we're on the floor we can actually feel our bellies fill with air. And as you continue to take these deep breaths we're just gonna start to bring our attention to different parts of our body and just notice where we are right now. And we're just gonna start from the bottom. Start at the soles of our feet and give some attention to our toes, our soles, our ankles, the tops of the feet, some shin splints, our calves tight. You wanna start to move or stretch if that feels right. Please give yourself permission to do so. If you wanna just continue to breathe and give attention to that area of the body, that's fine as well. And then we're just gonna bring some breath where we often hold a lot of attention, chairs often, and we don't get to do our hip flexor stretches like we like to. Just bring some breath and some ease there, letting go, banding your ribcage, the backs of the shoulders, in the shoulders, you might unintentionally be holding tension, it might even be all the way up by your ears and you don't even know, just let it go. Finding some space in the neck and then starting to bring some attention to your face. Is your tongue doing a weird thing right now? Let it go. Bring any tension in your face if you feel the difference. Relax your brows. And then bringing some attention to the top of your head and thinking about the space above. You're putting some energy down the arms, so the shoulders, down your biceps, down your triceps, back to the arm. Bring your attention. Rubbing and see some folks rubbing their hands together. Just give them some friction, so we can take that energy and just apply it to other places in your body. Mindful of your breath as you scan through your body. For yourself, I'd like for you to, I believe, I am worthy, I am worthy, I am worthy. You can feel it, that in for yourself, I'm worthy of connection. It's for yourself, an internal affirmation of self-worth. Continuing to be finding comfort in your sit or your imagining and visualizing with light, filling up your, expanding whatever needs to be, expanding where it needs to be, let go. What are you worthy of? We're gonna transition into some walking, walking in your work, from a space, you walk with your work, we will hold that. We ask that your meditation, your walking meditation is done silently and we will keep walking in our work. But this should be done with your eyes open. It doesn't walk with it straight ahead. You don't have to stay within the walk. You can stand and ponder your worth or you can walk the whole time. The things with you that someone may trip on, we ask that you do it so folks feel comfortable. So, walk, walk, so when you're ready, so that we can need to step out of the attention to the way you touch the floor, the thing that might be in the way, soft, soft faces walking in your work, with your work, down about 5% and see what comes up for you, is that internal affirmation of worth going, not worthy of love, not worthy of life, not worthy of peace, not worthy of passion, not worthy of travel, not worthy of journey. Whatever you add to your connecting palm of floor to connecting palm of foot to the floor, mindful or toes touching the floor. Mindfully and gratitude for this walk, this step in your work, and gratitude of wherever you are on that journey of self-worth. If your mind starts to go, you feel yourself coming out of the meditation, breathe and come back into it, please. This moment, walking in your work, in a moment to be president of your body, we wanna take this meditation to, so underneath each of your ceilings when you came in, there were some pieces of paper and a writing utensil. You can take your chair to a chair on your own time, those tools and the things that you started, what are those things that you need to affirm for yourself that you are worthy of for achieving them, for sustaining them, for creating them. What are your recipes for resilience? What is stirring right now? I'm gonna take a few more minutes. We'll go to the next activity now with a good time before we transition. If you're done, time being introspective, considering our work, a little time built in to bridge between our introspective personal work and the work that we're about to do in group. So, wanted to just ask during walking meditation, visualization, what's going on? What's present for you right now? But where I am personally is that I am, I mentioned earlier that moments is living in my truth in that for the last few years, as far as my art and my career, not so much personally. So what came up for me is knowing that I'm worthy of support and consistency from people with a lot of respect. But I have to start that with myself because although I can say I'm doing one thing, I need to actually do it. Or doing that across the board. No front, no, anyone else? I think it was the prompt was like 5% slower. At first I was like, I don't know about that. Walking very slow felt like there's a conflict between like my worthy walk and a slow walk. And so what that came to in my writing was I'm worthy of leisure. What's that? Worthy of leisure. Leisure. Leisure. Leisure. I think about this that I didn't really realize. In Asia, I wrote down I am worthy of having things that are my own. Because a lot of times it says women, mothers, whatever. We're still give it. We're always give it. We're always give it. Really young. My family has always had foster children. And preaches, we're on our last one ever. But I was always having a child young. So I had to give to that. And now that she's older and I'm on my own, it's almost like you feel guilty about having things for yourself. To have a time to have a thing for my own, including materialistic things, but also my own time and my own space. Some of the work that I'm reading right now, there is a connection between guilt and work. So I mean, yes, I'm not going to go deep into it, but I will just say I find in my own experience that there is a connection. Guilt does nothing but, you know, like tax my view system and just, you know, I break out and all kinds of crazy shit happens when I'm living in guilt. It's bad for me. And so like dealing with guilt and shame and imposter syndrome. All right. I said I wasn't going to go deep into it, because, you know, it is like, I keep using this word medicine because medicine for me is not just pills you take, but when you are, when I'm able to unearth and get to my truth, then some of the other stuff, there's no pills that can cure guilt. And all of the other things, imposter syndrome, jealousy, envy, worse and wellness. For me, there is like a journey that I'm on that is not like just one destination forward when it's like back, forward, side to side, like a coyote. But trying to get to the wellness world, just trying to get there and just touch it. That's been helpful for me. We have time for other folks. Thank you. Thank you for those who shared. Anyone else? What's coming up for you? Yes, please. I did not celebrate being busy, but I'm doing it. I'm still busy, but I'm not chasing the busy in the way that I was. So not celebrating. All right. That seems to resonate with other folks. Anyone else want to just coast on? We will not chase busy. I've always been here to my heart, my identity. And my job is in a place where they're like, no, you can't do that now. You have to take care of your passion and your interest. Your job? Your time. All right. Now, I have to keep practicing. To reframe, you don't have to be that busy. You don't have to do that. You can learn and explore something different than if you decide it's not for you. So I'm trying to frame up, stepping away from it as not being selfish and not losing my identity, but really living into, do you remember that passion for research that you had? That when you went to undergrad? Yeah, somebody's a good opportunity to do that. You can step into that, and that's been hard. Not to frame it up as, they don't want me to help my community. Let's go. To let that come. So that's busy. Starting a new job, and I also have my own film that I'm working on, and there are always new things on the list, but knowing that they'll get done, even if I don't do them right this second, have been trying to practice them more. Taskless to do less, all of this, lifeless, okay, it can sit for a minute. It can sit for a day or two, you know. It will be fine. Right next, right next, but we don't want to hear from you, and then we, yes. But just to take onto that, also I'm carrying my progress to another class, where we see X, Y, and Z level, and then you just take, not all your own college, all that stuff that you can do in your class, like we do. That's all right, that's all right. Good for them. You doing their too. Right. Right. Are you being to be here, or is that right? Yes. Okay. As I'm listening to everybody, I'm still looking at mine, what I have down is mine worth. That is a comparison, but I'm thinking about what I wrote. It resonates through what I wrote, which is just as I am. I am worthy, just as I am. I am worthy, just as I am. I am worthy, just as I am. I am worthy, just as I am. Right now, I am not trying to become worthy, being in my worthiness, not trying to become my worthiness. All right. So here you were talking about how all of these things come together, and actually even speaks to this, I can feel, I'm getting sick like as we speak. And it's interesting to walk and think of worthiness as I get sick. You know, because it is. I should have done that before, but still wherever you are in that space, I am worthy right where I am, just as I am. And this is where I am right now. And just because things aren't at 100, I'm still worthy. This whole thing about just as I am, it's just like, you know, having the present trust to sell, chill, passing by a magazine, feeling, making my worth, my decision. It speaks to what, I don't know, several, I'll just mention a couple to be better. Just as I am is, just as I am is loving. Just as I am is forgiving with several others. Some folks in my community have love languages, which is a thing. It's a thing, like a book, you know. I feel like in my, but not exclusively, one of the main, so, I'm not doing it. Doing, doing, doing, even when you are like, your reserve is depleted. Even when you do it with a, so I could do this, even if it makes me, even if I don't want to do it. In my community, that is not helpful to any of us of worthlessness, feelings of worthlessness, and feelings of dis-ease, and feelings of being of my community. And so, there's been some tweaking, because at one point, I think I would have said my major love language was acts of service. And what I've been saying recently is my great-grandmother did enough acts of service so I can, hey, don't have to do all of this. Everything, everything, everything. And so, I do think the love of self-worth in some parts of my community would be seen as obscene. It's girlish Sunday night. It's something else to do. We ought to be well. And so, you know, but it is, it's an act of resilience in my community to focus very deeply, like root and ground and go as deep as we can into thinking about being well. And caring for ourselves. Reclaiming our time. Reclaiming our time. Reclaiming our rituals for wellness. Reclaiming what has been in our lives today. Really important, really important. So we're going to now do some more work around these ideas. Yes. I feel like on top. Can I ask you a few words about yourself in small circles? I will give you your next step. So we're moving. We're going to put a little swiftness in our room and five, six, four, five, no card around our room. Your resilience in your wellness. What are some barriers to that? Subscribe in some way. What you need for a breakthrough so that you can sustain your resilience in your... On the other side of your breakthroughs. What you need for your breakthroughs? Breakthroughs and barriers. You can draw it. You can write it. You're going to, in your circle, take one to two minutes for each person to share out your barriers and your breakthroughs. Yes. Something just came to me. Yes. Listen. You know what barrier we're for. Amen. So, suggestion. When you give your barrier, if there are breakthroughs that you have for, if someone else has any breakthroughs for this barrier, just make a note of them. They might be helpful. They may change your life in one minute. Okay. So, yes. Yes. You share your barriers and your breakthroughs. Yes. Okay. All right. Each person. So, first person, get ready. This is going to be a communal time. Keep it open. You got two minutes. First person, eight. It's 8.18. I will. Okay. I will start playing cards. I will play cards. This is my barrier. And I want to get some gorillas.이나요, Thatch a day or two, you can get five. You can get five. So, one person gets seven mıs. It'sfive mıs. Go on stage. Okay. So, you use that. And then three person and Fort. Let's move on. IE is the bonus eljam. I try to think that I can help. But with my art, this will be something that I can just keep voicing. The great things I can have are pretty existing planning ahead. I make small goals, there's something I can do. I have a little bit of a choice that I can do. I would be a sadist for any of you. I'm a teacher. I'm a writer. I have a good story, so... I'm going to turn on my phone right now. I'll get that. This is my favorite turn of the year. Oh, look at that. It's amazing how our art, the art. It's my new play, I'm reading it. One more minute? Alright, so we have the last break proofs to share with that person, and then we're going to turn it off. One more minute. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. One more minute. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Since we're at registration, we didn't get to write it on the big paper. Our professional ass looks like sleep. We have the same passion as you do. Remind myself of my story. Tell your story to others. Practice kindness to others. Everyone has real media is not the truth. Just as we are. To let it go. To let it go. And... So, Sydney, you were tracking some things you'd like to share? Yeah, I would like to share. For me, I think that this space is... These questions are right and will be fully supported. The last time you did something for the first time, and you took two hours to be self-reflective, introspective, and in the space of self-healing. The pieces that you've generated and that you've exchanged with each other and to keep moving forward with them. We can heal ourselves. We have a lot in our system that our mothers have taught us and our aunties and our grandmothers. And I invite you all to keep moving forward in your own way. So, just a few housekeeping things. There are surveys and I get to share them as well. If you take the time to complete that, you might be having there's an opening in February and for the gaps of music you can send off. So, if you are interested in that, you know, you're able to do that and now you're going to be telling you about that. And then, I hope you're not being too hard on this. If you sit down and have to share it with the space to do, thank you dear for all the stuff that you do for me and for thinking to dance in my city and the field, thank you to my mom. So, care was something that I wanted to do for this gathering. So, if there are other, you can write in the survey if there are other themes that you want us to bring to the table. Please, this is for us. For us. One live streaming watching. We appreciate you all.