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Workshop 1
Transforming Anger
For many, anger is perceived as a negative emotion or something that isn’t allowed. At some point, someone may have diminished their expression of anger, or they might believe their anger has hurt someone, resulting in a distorted view of this emotion. Everyone has unique life experiences that shape how they deal with anger, so it’s valuable to understand your relationship with it and identify any patterns that could be changed for the better.
Anger can be a powerful catalyst for change when channeled and expressed healthily. Healthy anger can be expressed through assertive communication, setting boundaries, or taking constructive actions. It empowers you to make changes in a situation, allowing you to stand up for yourself and your values. This includes speaking up, respecting boundaries, and using many other forms of expression. Anger gets shit done.
In this workshop, we will utilize two MoveMeant Layers of the Amenti MoveMeant Method: the layer of Sensations (Water) and the Layer of Power (Fire).
Keywords for this workshop include:
– Right to feel and act
– Shame and guilt barriers
– Powerful and sharp movements
– Courage and expression
– Taking control
– Responsibility (response-ability)
– Ego work
– Setting and honoring boundaries
Workshop 2
Integrating through Symbols
At the heart of our human experience lies the profound ability to explore, connect, and comprehend our inner selves and the surrounding world through symbols.
Symbols serve as bridges that link disparate pieces of knowledge, thoughts, and emotions, and they are vital when it comes to integrating significant information we encounter in our lives.
Integration is a multifaceted process that entails absorbing new information and reflecting on and retaining it in a way that enriches our understanding. Symbols play a pivotal role in this journey by organizing and contextualizing our experiences, allowing us to grasp their significance in the integration process. They become the markers of our learning, helping us understand complex concepts and experiences.
In MoveMeant, we take this notion further by translating the essence of integration into a physical expression, transforming our bodies into symbols. By engaging in movement that
incorporates our entire being—body, mind, and spirit—we create a holistic framework for understanding. This embodiment allows us to connect the dots between what we know cognitively and what we experience physically, fostering deeper emotional and intuitive insights.
This dynamic interplay allows us to fully immerse ourselves in the present moment, cultivating wisdom through lived experiences.
The workshop emphasizes several key concepts, each of which plays a crucial role in our journey toward integration and understanding:
Key concepts of this workshop include:
– Symbolism
– Intuition
– Connectivity
– Play
– Visions
– Dreams
– Geometry
– Feminine vs. Masculine
Amenti MoveMeant is a community-based organization and a decolonial psyche-somatic MoveMeant medicine. The foundation of our Method and our way of working as a team lie in the pillars of the original hip-hop culture: peace, Love, Unity, Respect, Having Fun, and Self Knowledge.
Gil’ The Grid’ Gomes Leal, our organization’s founder and the Method we use, was a professional hip-hop dancer for years before developing our teachings. The Amenti MoveMeant Method is a way of becoming more self-aware through the use of the body. We see our human experience as a holistic system – consisting of the body, the mind, and the soul (or spirit). The Method comprises dance, (Jungian)psychology, somatic exercises, and shamanism. We combine knowledge from all corners of the world to give a complete understanding of life. We find harmony, agency, and self-acceptance when we understand our individual choices and their effect on our lives.
Community, the collective, is an innate and essential element in everything we do. To understand ourselves is to understand the other, and vice versa. Other people are our mirrors and teach us much about our choices, experiences, traumas, and joys. This is why everything we teach is taught in groups. Allowing others into our healing journey creates empathy and connection.
Amenti MoveMeant’s Method is a transformative method created by Gil Gomes Leal. It spreads awareness about the connection between the body and mind and gives tools for expanding self-expression and awareness. The Method consists of seven layers, each connecting to a specific life area.
Through our workshops and courses, you can learn from us, as well as our expertise in dance and understanding of the human mind and ego. We work with the body in connection to the mind because they are interconnected. Approaching our human experience holistically gives us agency over our lives and gets us in tune with all the subtle messages our body and mind give us daily.
Amenti Theatre Company
Immerse yourself in the world’s first Neo Mythical Dance Theatre Company – where old myths are transformed or restored, and new stories arise from the mind of Artistic Leader Gil ‘the Grid’ Gomes Leal.
Amenti Theatre Company (ATC) envisions worlds where the audience is taken on a trip through time and space. With dance as their primary medium of expression—and often combined with live music, acting, puppetry, and imaginative decors—ATC uses their urban background and decolonial thinking at the core of every performance.
ATC produces theatre productions and performances, such as its well-known improvisation concept, the Elemental Exchange. Its array of dancers from all backgrounds, each with their individual language in dance, ensures that each encounter with them is one to remember and cherish.
With a strive for radical change through art and a bold, young approach to the arts, theatre, and knowledge, Amenti Theatre Company is a company like no other – never scared to call out the truth and imagine a transformed future. A vehicle of dreams, a catalyst of change.
