Form and Space, an Embodiment Event with Dr. Hillary L. McBride, PhD.
This event is open to the community, not just providers!
This event is about creating the space to step outside of the ways of being a body that are structured, familiar, and prescribed, to tune into our bodily voice, and practice moving in a way that feels authentic, giving unexplored or unexpressed places inside of us form through our movement and words. When what is inside of us moves into the space around us, we can begin to encounter the stillness that lives inside.
The two and a half hours will consist of free movement (ecstatic dance), writing, and group sharing. For those of you new to free-movement, the purpose of this is choice and bodily autonomy while engaging with movement to play, express, and experience your bodily wisdom. You get to choose how you want to move your body. If that means laying down and listening to the music, connecting to your wild self, or waltzing your inner critic back and forth, all of it is just as it should be. This is a space for you to practice moving how you want to move, and then have time to write and verbally integrate the experiences you have. If money is an issue let us know, we would love to find a way for you to come no matter what.
Please bring some water, your journal and a pen, and wear loose clothing to move in with layers to remove as you warm up. We will be moving with shoes off.
We are currently searching for a place to host this event. We WILL be in Asheville, NC and will post the location soon!
Date And Time
Friday April 25th, 2025
3:00PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Location
Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park
Appetites and Arousal: Understanding purity culture, (dis)embodiment, eating disorders, and healing
Although purity culture has impacted millions of North Americans since its widespread emergence in the 1990s, the long term effects of these cultural practices is emerging as something worth clinical consideration for a variety of mental health presentations, in particular diagnosis which organize around the body, including eating disorders. Dr. Hillary McBride and Dr. Sandra Noble will be presenting theoretical and research based information on the role of embodiment/disembodiment as mediating links between purity culture and disordered eating (and other mental health presentations), as well as the broader considerations of spiritual trauma. religious abuse, and the institutional and systemic dynamics and experiences which co-exist alongside purity culture. This workshop will include information about purity culture and embodiment, spiritual trauma and religious abuse, and how these relate to eating disorder development and treatment for those who have been a part of purity culture. The workshop will also include strategies and considerations for treatment when working with those who are still within purity culture and its supporting religious context, and those who have left or deidentified from purity culture.
Date And Time
Sat. April 26th, 2025
8:30AM - 4:00 PM EDT
Location
Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park