SGT Monthly Events
You are warmly invited to join any of our monthly events. As we go forth together in study and action, beauty-making and community connection, we would love to invite you into our community of Earth-tenders. We offer these events to feed body, mind, and soul.
Work that Reconnects Community of Practice
Somatic Practice and Support Group
Music As Medicine Community Sing
One-on-One
Thought Partnership Session with
Lydia Violet Harutoonian
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Work that Reconnects Practice Circle with Lydia Violet
With
Lydia Violet
Sun, July 20
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM PDT
ONLINE
$25
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The "Work That Reconnects" (WTR) is a framework and set of practices developed by Joanna Macy, a scholar, environmental activist, and Buddhist practitioner. It is a holistic approach to personal and collective transformation that aims to address the ecological and social challenges facing humanity.
The Work That Reconnects is rooted in the belief that in order to create meaningful change in the world, we must first acknowledge and confront the pain and despair that arise from our current environmental and social crises. It provides a safe and supportive space for individuals to explore and express their emotions about the state of the world, while also fostering a sense of connection and empowerment.
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Elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 12 years, learning how we can metabolize climate despair, eco-anxiety, and community traumas into energy for resilience, action, and community healing. She founded and runs School for The Great Turning, in dedication to the work of Joanna Macy, and to create access to an education that supports the societal shift from an Industrial Growth Society to a Life-Sustaining Society. For 4 years Lydia has also run the Music As Medicine Project, combining traditions of community singing with Macy's "Work That Reconnects." Lydia has lead hundreds of groups in this work internationally, as well as conducted facilitator trainings and offered keynote addresses at conferences and festivals. Lydia is also an accomplished Iranian-Armenian-American multi-instrumentalist weaving together American roots and Iranian folk music traditions. With her live band she combines fiddle, banjo, and luscious harmonies to offer a soul-folk revival experience, bringing in a fresh wave of protest music. In the past year she has collaborated with world-renowned artists Climbing PoeTree, Rising Appalachia, and Lyla June. ♬
Somatic Practice and Support Group
To be announced
Music as Medicine Community Sing
With
Te Martin
Sun, July 6
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM PDT
ONLINE
$25
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The Music As Medicine Sunday Community Sing is a morning of song & sanctuary hosted by SGT founder and music-maker Lydia Violet, and this Sunday, we have a special guest, songleader extraordinaire Te Martin!
For many millennia, music, and specifically music made together in community, has been a crucial way we bolster ourselves in hard times. Music can mend our bones and pour in the grace. It can transform our exhaustion and help us feel more held as a part of the choir.
Just as it feels good to act in the companionship of others on behalf of life, so too is the homecoming of singing together. -
Te Martin is a song-keeper and ritual artist. They were born on Ramaytush Ohlone land in San Francisco and have been shaped by Ocean, Redwoods, circus arts, and theater games. They facilitate oral tradition singing classes and workshops that focus on song as a tool for collective liberation, somatic regulation, and ancestral connection. Te served as co-organizer of Thrive Street Choir in the San Francisco bay area for six years, is a student of Gaelic song, and released their first professional music video and EP of original songs, "Water & Bones," in 2021.
All are welcome! No music experience necessary.
One-on-One
Thought Partnership Session with Lydia Violet
In these sessions, you can meet one-on-one with school founder Lydia Violet Harutoonian.
Feel free to bring in any questions you have about the "Work That Reconnects," projects you are working on, or anything else that feels relevant to seek thought partnership from Lydia about.
