Workshop | Ellen Furey — Lifting the Ceiling

OBJECTIVE

Lifting the Ceiling is a workshop dedicated to recognizing latent dreamscapes for life, work and art making, as big and as good-feeling as we can; stretching to include the too big, too much, too ambitious, the idealistic, currently impractical. We’ll navigate building a deeply affirming experience for each other that might validate who we are as more than individual humans, allowing us space to explore possibilities in current conditions (personal, interpersonal, societal- i.e., collapse, genocide, division, overwhelm)

CONTENT

The workshop rehearses imagining and believing the possible worlds (or moments) we desire—not through a framework of reform, but through one of grounded fantasy, and a belief in dignity. What is our desired future and present, and how can we rehearse it into life right now? We will practice alternatives to a mindset of precarity. Exercises will include adapted writing prompts, movement scores, work-outs, short meditations, structured sharings/discussions and paired reflections aimed at nurturing potential and courage.