Between Worlds Group
An in-person expressive arts and somatic movement processing group for adults in California who identify with the experience of immigration or displacement and feel like they’re living between multiple worlds or cultures.
Group Information
Do your people have histories of forced displacement and migration? Are you looking for an intentional space to bridge between yourself and the gifts of your ancestors? When you think of your ancestors, how does your body feel? These are a few themes we will be considering as we engage together in community to better understand our physical selves in space and by extension our spiritual selves that we might feel called to explore at this time.
This group offers an in-person expressive arts and somatic movement based therapy experience for those who identify with the experience of immigration or displacement who are curious to explore identity, intersectionality, collective experiences, and a sense of belonging. The group will hold an anti-racist lens.
Schedule:
Four consecutive Fridays: April 4,11,18, and 25 from 5:30-7pm, in person in the East Bay (participants must sign up for all 4 sessions)
Structure:
The group is limited to 5 people with a shared intention that each member commits to showing up consistently for the duration of the 4 scheduled group meetings. The meetings will be in an intimate, small-group setting, with opportunities to discuss and share lived experiences with each other through various art medium and movement practices. Recommended to dress in loose fitting and comfortable clothing.
Accessibility:
Covid testing the day-of may be requested if any member of the group asks for it, although masks will not be required. The building is wheelchair accessible with no stairs. Somatic exercises will be offered in a way that is accessible to those with limited movement.
Fees:
Sliding-Scale, $50-$150/week, paid via credit card. Payments for all 4 sessions will be made at the start of the group, unless a payment plan is agreed upon ahead of time with the facilitators due to financial need.
(If the fee range above is prohibitive to your participation, we will reach out if a reduced fee spot becomes available.)
About the facilitators:
The group will be facilitated by Martha Yesenia Juarez, LPCC and Alicia Sanchez Sanz, Registered Associate MFT
Alicia immigrated to California from Spain in 2014. She is a psychotherapist that brings her intersectional and multicultural background as a base of her practice. Alicia is passionate about supporting anyone that relates to the immigrant community, also supporting first generations. Alicia believes in the importance of expression as the key of the healing journey. She holds somatic movement and art expressive interventions as allies in her practice and life.
Martha is born and raised in the Central Valley of California, between open skies and mysterious nights. It is in this backdrop that imagination, connection to land, and intimate immensity shaped her creative process in various mediums. Primarily practicing as a psychotherapist, she is largely influenced in her work by the unknown and the creative process of making meaning. Martha is also shaped by her Mexican heritage that often can feel like being in between worlds.
