Friends Peace Teams invited Paul Linden and Bill Leicht to present a mini-workshop on including somatics as a part of peacemaking at PeaceQuest-2015, Richmond IN. Eleven activists participated. Paul and Bill demonstrated aikido briefly to distinguish the martial art then taught somatics as applied to nonviolence. In the last few minutes Bill showed the AVP Exercise, "Hand Pushing Demonstration," with a number of somatic variations that can help participants understand how physical, like verbal, nonviolence is also a dialog about affirmation, attention, trust and transformation. The workshop participants felt excited about the possibilities in approaching Transforming Power through the body.
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