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February 22, 2021
The Mind of Plants Symposium: Plant & Human Minds Panel / April 9
Check out more details on The Mind of Plants Symposium here.
I’ll be participating in a panel called Plant & Human Minds.
Friday April 9th
8:30am – 9:50am AEST / 3:30pm – 4:50pm PST
SHARING 1 ~ Plant & Human Minds
This sharing explores the interrelation between plant and human minds, including the multiple ways in which plants determine human mindsets featuring Joe Dumit, Juan Galeano, Luis Eduardo Luna, Janice Lee, Kristi Onzik, Laura Ruggles, Ivan Vargas Roncancio, Jonathon Miller Weisberger, Mauricio Tolosa and Monica Gagliano (moderator).
February 21, 2021
Rising Fire Community Healing Day / March 19
Join Rising Fire for an afternoon of Community Healing on Friday, March 19th, 2021!
This Community Healing Day includes:
20 minute private sessions held via zoom, with availability from 1:30 – 3pm PST.
An hour long workshop, led by Janice Lee (published writer, teacher, shamanic healer) will consist of a guided meditation, a freewriting session, and a communal ceremony. Workshop will begin at 2:30pm PST on zoom.
You may choose to register for both a private session and the workshop if you are called to.
These offerings are provided for FREE by Rising Fire’s Healers Training Program students. The Healers Training Program is a two year commitment where students hone their shamanic healing skills, learn depth psychology tools, and are guided through mentoring to step into their own unique calling. If you would like to continue the work, follow up hourly sessions are available at a discounted rate.
Reserve your private healing and register for the group event here.
Description of free (1-hour) workshop offered by Janice Lee:
THE DANDELIONS ARE PROPHESIZING: A WORKSHOP IN LETTING GO: Letting go isn’t about eliminating desire, ambition, or hope, but about unattaching ourselves from those hopes, about no longer clinging to a sense of control, about no longer seeing the world in a linear way. When we cling to the hope of a “better future,” we long for a sense of control that has never and will never exist. We only see what’s wrong now and wait for a future that is yet to come. We use all of our present energy waiting or trying to fix things because we are clinging to certain notions of justice or loss, but when we let go, we can live in the present moment, live with presence and awareness, have gratitude for everything that exists now, and imagine new futures that don’t depend on replicating the energies of the systems we seek to dismantle or the patterns we seek to heal from. Letting go means breathing, living with open arms, allowing for openness and vulnerability and possibility, and accepting what is while still creating the impossible. This workshop, led by Janice Lee (published writer, teacher, shamanic healer) will consist of a guided meditation, a freewriting session, and a communal ceremony (that will be finished on your own). Please bring a small object that represents what you need to let go of, or a small stone, that will be buried in the ground after the workshop.
December 3, 2020
Second Sunday Conversations: Teresa Carmody & Janice Lee / January 31 (Rescheduled)
Join Teresa Carmody on the second Sunday of each month as she hosts conversations about writing, art, spirituality, divination, feminism, and magic with a diverse group of visionaries working across disciplines and in a variety of modes.
4-5PM (Mountain Time) / 3-4PM (Pacific Time) Sunday, January 10, 2021
RESCHEDULED for January 31, 2021
For more information and to register, click here.
Second Sunday Conversations: Teresa Carmody & Janice Lee / January 10
Join Teresa Carmody on the second Sunday of each month as she hosts conversations about writing, art, spirituality, divination, feminism, and magic with a diverse group of visionaries working across disciplines and in a variety of modes.
4-5PM (Mountain Time) / 3-4PM (Pacific Time) Sunday, January 10, 2021
October 5, 2020
Corporeal Writing ONLINE Workshop: Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma / Nov 22 – Dec 19
Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma
4-Week Online Workshop starting July 12th, 2020
When: Nov 22 – Dec 19 (4 weeks)
Workshop Leader: Janice Lee
Where: Online
Cost: $350
Limited sliding scale registrations ($150-$300) for BIPOC available. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info.
More details and to register – see Corporeal Writing page
“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James
“How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn
On han: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one’s guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined.” –Suh Nam-dong
How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to be affected? How do we reconcile personal experience with historical fact? How do we reconcile history with memory? How do we reconcile truths with other truths? How does writing open up space while processing trauma or grief?
This four-week online workshop will begin with the unique emotional identity and Korean concept of han and its relationship to concepts of inherited trauma, looking closely at the relationship of cultural history & identity and aesthetics & narrative and exploring how the presence of unresolved corporeal history and the impossibility of articulation or expression leads to new encounters in language and narrative.
Through this generative and healing-focused workshop, we will use writing prompts, guided meditations, intuition exercises, personal medicine work, shamanic practices, divination, mapping, unbinding wounds & trauma, communing with plant and animal beings, and ceremony to explore the articulation of experience and trauma (lived and inherited). We will explore texts from all genres and work directly on developing a personal healing and writing practice while exploring lived/embodied experience, the body as both a compromised site and as a site for resistance, and connections to thinking about healing from other lineages, including plant & animal medicine, Buddhism, and different lineages of shamanism.
Workshop Structure:
In order to accommodate both synchronous and asynchronous modes, the majority of the work will be asynchronous and can be self-paced for each week (ie. readings, writing prompts, exercises, discussions). There will be 4 synchronous meetings (via Zoom). The 4 sessions will be Mondays from 11AM-12:30 PM PST: 11/23, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14). Though attendance at these meetings is highly encouraged, it is not mandatory. All meetings will be recorded and posted the next day, for those who are unable to make part or all of the meeting times, with guided instructions on any activities/exercises covered during the meetings to be posted as well. As well, all participants will have the opportunity to have one 1-on-1 conference with Janice during the 4-week period.
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Limited sliding scale registrations ($150-$300) for BIPOC available. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info.
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July 4, 2020
Liminal Lab: POLYPHONIC INTERSUBJECTIVITIES: MYCELIAL ASSEMBLAGE BEYOND THE CAPITALOCENE – a 6-wk online workshop w/ Janice Lee & Elæ / July 23 – August 27
Join co-facilitators Janice Lee and
Elæ for a six-week workshop interrogating the speculative potentialities
of post-capital futures, imagined through the lens of assemblage: an
introduction to a processual worldview that positions the possible
within a nonlinear density of dialogue across human and non-human
species, intelligences, and stories. Utilizing shared interdisciplinary
practices and healing methodologies, and drawing from a wide range of
media, our co-facilitators will lead participants through
embodied/somatic, co-creative/generative, and investigatory exercises in
the service of a making that not only envisions but lays the groundwork
for personal and structural change.
Weekly on Zoom, Thursdays 7:30 EST
Six Sessions, Beginning July 23
July 3, 2020
Lost in the Letters Reading / July 16
Thursday, July 16
6:30-7:30 EDT
Janice Lee, Diana Marie Delgado, and Meghan Lamb!
Zoom registration ::: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fcEhgpaeSaeW3RDWGM_QZg
June 27, 2020
Business as Usual: Protracted Tribulation – A Discussion w/ Will Alexander, Dorothy Wang, Janice Lee / June 30
Beyond Baroque Poet-in-Residence Will Alexander is joined in discussion by writer/professors Janice Lee and Dorothy Wang.
Together, these writers and thinkers will explore the tension between the pull of the past and the power that is gathering from the future.
(an online event)
Sponsored by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles
May 13, 2020
The Antifascist Artist / May 21
Thu, May 21 from 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Hosted by Literary Arts.
Click on this link to register in advance for this webinar
Cari Luna, Samiya Bashir, Maryam Gabriel-Imam, Janice Lee, Sophia Shalmiyev, Leni Zumas
Free: registration required
The Antifascist Artist:
How can writers fight against right-wing extremism in the United States?
In recent years right-wing extremist groups have specifically
targeted Portland as a place to rally, recruit, and radicalize. How do
communities fight back against hate on the local, national, and global
level? And what role can art—in particular the written and spoken
word—play in that fight?
Portland authors Cari Luna, Samiya Bashir, Maryam Gabriel-Imam,
Janice Lee, Sophia Shalmiyev, and Leni Zumas will read from their work
and then tackle this question in a panel discussion.
This event is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, through a project grant in support of Cari Luna’s ongoing research and writing about fascism.
More info at Literary Arts website.
March 16, 2020
Corporeal Writing ONLINE Workshop: Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma / July 12-August 8
Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma
4-Week Online Workshop starting July 12th, 2020
Workshop Leader: Janice Lee
When: July 12 – August 8 (4 weeks)
Where: Online
Cost: $350
Limited sliding scale registrations ($150-$300) for BIPOC available. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info.
More details and to register – see Corporeal Writing page
“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James
“How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn
On han: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one’s guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined.” –Suh Nam-dong
How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to be affected? How do we reconcile personal experience with historical fact? How do we reconcile history with memory? How do we reconcile truths with other truths? How does writing open up space while processing trauma or grief?
This four-week online workshop will begin with the unique emotional identity and Korean concept of han and its relationship to concepts of inherited trauma, looking closely at the relationship of cultural history & identity and aesthetics & narrative and exploring how the presence of unresolved corporeal history and the impossibility of articulation or expression leads to new encounters in language and narrative.
Through this generative and healing-focused workshop, we will use writing prompts, guided meditations, intuition exercises, personal medicine work, shamanic practices, divination, mapping, unbinding wounds & trauma, communing with plant and animal beings, and ceremony to explore the articulation of experience and trauma (lived and inherited). We will explore texts from all genres and work directly on developing a personal healing and writing practice while exploring lived/embodied experience, the body as both a compromised site and as a site for resistance, and connections to thinking about healing from other lineages, including plant & animal medicine, Buddhism, and different lineages of shamanism.
