“A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
We launch the we.Pod Program in March 2023
with the generous funding from The Mayor’s Office Cultural Affairs in Atlanta, Georgia. The convened families weekly under a diffrent theme each week centering everyone with art-based activities to explore each week’s theme. With community partnerships with the Little Five Points Center for Arts & Culture, and Gateway Performance Theatre Company more than 20-youth and familes were served. The program received a donaton of Ukuleles, and offered free Ukulele Lessons. Youth received lesson, learned to play Ukulele and gave a closing program performance.
Email WHOA to bring we.Pod to your community: whoahealingnow@gmail.com
We will gather & listen to the children and what they want to do in and support their dreams as parents, and community.
we.Pod Residency Program
we.Pod is an arts-based program that uses the fertile soil of the arts and healing to bring together youth, adults and elders, in both affinity and community spaces to plant seeds of goodness. The arts are the soil, and the seeds for healing and change reside within each of us human beings to create a better world. Together we create more peaceful communities in which to thrive in harmony. The “Individual” movement is entirely too small for the work of the “We” movement of these times.
Many individuals today are searching in illusive social media spaces for their WHY?, or their purpose in life. Many search externally for what ultimately resides within, a creative genius that awaits full expression. we.Pod focuses away from so much emphasis on the individual—”it’s all about me” and seeks to center the individual within the context of “community” through engagement in the creative and healing arts. The times are entirely too expansive for a total individualistic focus to the exclusion of others and the broader world or community. We must come together, we need we.Pod!
we.Pod Project is available to work with any community interested in seeding change through intergenerational collaboration. The initial meetings with the community is to establish mutual respect for the communities stated goals, identify key stakeholders, and work together to build an arts-based collaboration in service to the communities stated goals. The goals is to work with communities on winter, spring and summer breaks. Classes typically include: Drumming, Storytelling, Visual Art, InterPlay, Theatre, Singing, Movement, Yoga and meditation.
SELECTED TEACHING ARTIST lead we.Pod Projects based on community recommendations. Additionally, Carolyn Renée Morris, brings members of the WHOA teaching artists team to support.
For more information contact:
678-871-7313 or whoahealingnow@gmail.com
INTERPLAY
InterPlay is a practice of honoring the wisdom of the body through creative movement, vocal expression, and storytelling.
Through InterPlay, participants are able to foster authenticity, comfort, and ease within their bodies. The forms of InterPlay are highly accessible and meant for anybody and everybody, regardless of age, ability, and experience. Carolyn Renée invites diversity through play by engaging diverse communities to reclaim their “birthright practices” of song, movement, and storytelling. These simple practices are second nature and part of how we as human beings make sense of living, dying, celebrating, and building community connections. As an InterPlay Leader and Liaison to InterPlay Leaders of Color in the USA–she helps train future InterPlay Leaders and works in collaboration to explore how to use InterPlay to break down racial oppression and build better ways to co-exist.
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Sacred Goddess Temple Rites of Passage
Sacred Goddess Temple Rites of Passage was initiated over a decade ago by the Sacred Goddess Temple of Houston, Texas. There were women from satellite locations (Atlanta, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Canada, and the Philippines) that met with the group over this time. Those satellites are now creating Sacred Goddess Temples within their respective areas. Women are the keepers of life in the universe and we must condition ourselves accordingly to fulfill divine purpose in our day. Join us for the Sacred Goddess Temple Rites of Passage of Atlanta, GA for spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional development. The Sacred Goddess Temples include:
1 Per Hmt: Accessing the Divine Feminine
2 Per Bast: Care of the Life Force
3 Per Ht Hru: Spiritual Development
4 Per Net: Good Associations
5 Per Sekhmet: Health and Healing Arts
6 Per Maat: The 42 Laws
7 Per Ntrt: Initiation Rites
Renew your life through the regeneration of the body, the emotions, the mind, and the spirit. The foundation of the Sacred Goddess Temple Initiation is to assist you in developing a holistic way of living. Through the wisdom teachings of sacred texts, you will be encouraged to reach your highest self to achieve your greatest good.
Playwriting for Colored Girls Who Want to Self-Express
As a developed playmaker, Carolyn Renee shares tools from her decade and a half work with girls in the community, with women who want to dig into their personal narratives. Using the healing tools of InterPlay, Reiki, and a sprinkling of the Artist’s Way to write and play together.