Outside the Wire: Building Community After War
The Heart Warrior Project
Invites Military Veterans, their Families & Civilians
To envision “a village stronger than war”
The Heart Warrior Project
Invites Military Veterans, their Families & Civilians
To envision “a village stronger than war”
Community Workshop — Open to All — No Cost — Attend All or Some
By invitation from Concrete Couch & the Community Built Association, we have travelled from Ashland Oregon to Colorado Springs to facilitate community conversations and Creative Communication Workshops with veterans, their families and civilians.
Workshops are open to all, no artistic experience required, all perspectives and experiences are respected. Performance art practices will be used to facilitate honest dialogue & heart to heart communication between veterans, their families & civilians about their experiences of & visions for community – including the effect of untended trauma on community wholeness.
The process includes open dialogue, personal journaling, mindfulness, visualization, & physical-truth exercises that interface with creative freedom writing, dancing, drawing & painting.
We explore the stories that emerge as we ask our- selves questions about, community, personal healing, & how we stand up for each other.
Together we create a safe & playful space, to honor all stages of grief & growth as we envision & creatively communicate the life our hearts know is possible.
*Please wear clothing that supports freedom of movement.
Workshops are open to all, no artistic experience required, all perspectives and experiences are respected. Performance art practices will be used to facilitate honest dialogue & heart to heart communication between veterans, their families & civilians about their experiences of & visions for community – including the effect of untended trauma on community wholeness.
The process includes open dialogue, personal journaling, mindfulness, visualization, & physical-truth exercises that interface with creative freedom writing, dancing, drawing & painting.
We explore the stories that emerge as we ask our- selves questions about, community, personal healing, & how we stand up for each other.
Together we create a safe & playful space, to honor all stages of grief & growth as we envision & creatively communicate the life our hearts know is possible.
*Please wear clothing that supports freedom of movement.
*Following a series of 2 hour introductory workshops (attend all or just one of these), participants will dive deeper into the creative process on Saturday April 30, 11-4 for the main, full day, workshop that weaves the truths that have emerged from each participant into a community performance art piece. (Participation in the performance is optional. The important part of this workshop is the process - the communication with self & community, freeing your voice to share your truths in the name of strengthening the fabric of community.)
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Introductory Workshops - *to prepare for Saturday April 30th full day workshop. Please attend as many of these as possible.
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LOCATION950 E. Cimarron St,
Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Please arrive on time but don't let being late stop you from coming. We look forward to seeing you and welcome you even if all you want to do is listen and watch. You are welcome to join us. See you soon!
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ABOUT THE PROCESS - why performance art?
The practice of Performance Art is the practice of embodying our truths in the full spectrum of our experience. It helps us communicate with our deeper Self & one another in a way that traditional modes of communication do not.
THE GOAL
To become present with our collective healing journey; to explore the parts that often go unseen; to reveal our collective vision for creating communities stronger than war. The Heart Warrior Project’s central question (inspired by a poem from USMC Vietnam Veteran, Jack McLean): How will we create a village stronger than war?
ABOUT THE HEART WARRIOR PROJECT
The Heart Warrior Project is a social research/documentary film and performance art project.
Our vision: healing & halting trans-generational trauma by shining a light on the biggest pains in our society and illuminating them as opportunity for great healing.
Our mission: addressing post-war integration for military veterans & their families by inviting veterans, their families & civilians into heart to heart conversations & performance art practices that connect us to the heart of the matter.
“It takes a village... How will we create a village that is stronger than war?”
– Candace Younghans, Founder
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Performance artist/activist, Candace M. Younghans, began work on the Heart Warrior Project when she moved to Ashland in November 2011. On April 12, 2012 she began volunteering at the VA in White City by offering a Storytelling and Performance Expression class to inpatients. She also connected and learned through participating in the Native Veteran’s Program there. She continued her work there until February 2013.
She has been doing solo and ensemble work in the community that raises awareness to, emotional honesty, veteran’s issues, the Heart Warrior Project and our interconnection as human beings since December 2010. She makes her process public by involving the audience/community in the development phase. She requests they ask her deep honest questions to which she responds with, improvisational, “truth response” dance.
She integrates community responses into the script for her performances.
There is a performance series in development, also called Journey to the Heart Warrior, for which Candace has created a 35 minute and 15 minute piece that includes poetry written by veterans, quotes from interviews she has done with veterans and sharing of her own personal relationship and explorations with trans-generational trauma, heartbreak and peace. She will develop more live performances as the journey continues.
Candace is a performance coach and Self-Exploration Witnessing (S.E.W.ing) guide. S.E.W.ing is the name of her creative process which is based in body, breath, truth & honesty explorations. As a part of the Heart Warrior Project, she is developing a sponsorship model in which one community member can sponsor another community member - veteran, family member of or anyone in great need and desire - to work with her privately in the S.E.W.ing process.
So far she has had two people sponsored and is in the early stages of partnering with other local practitioners whose work compliments the S.E.W.ing work.
The practice of Performance Art is the practice of embodying our truths in the full spectrum of our experience. It helps us communicate with our deeper Self & one another in a way that traditional modes of communication do not.
THE GOAL
To become present with our collective healing journey; to explore the parts that often go unseen; to reveal our collective vision for creating communities stronger than war. The Heart Warrior Project’s central question (inspired by a poem from USMC Vietnam Veteran, Jack McLean): How will we create a village stronger than war?
ABOUT THE HEART WARRIOR PROJECT
The Heart Warrior Project is a social research/documentary film and performance art project.
Our vision: healing & halting trans-generational trauma by shining a light on the biggest pains in our society and illuminating them as opportunity for great healing.
Our mission: addressing post-war integration for military veterans & their families by inviting veterans, their families & civilians into heart to heart conversations & performance art practices that connect us to the heart of the matter.
“It takes a village... How will we create a village that is stronger than war?”
– Candace Younghans, Founder
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Performance artist/activist, Candace M. Younghans, began work on the Heart Warrior Project when she moved to Ashland in November 2011. On April 12, 2012 she began volunteering at the VA in White City by offering a Storytelling and Performance Expression class to inpatients. She also connected and learned through participating in the Native Veteran’s Program there. She continued her work there until February 2013.
She has been doing solo and ensemble work in the community that raises awareness to, emotional honesty, veteran’s issues, the Heart Warrior Project and our interconnection as human beings since December 2010. She makes her process public by involving the audience/community in the development phase. She requests they ask her deep honest questions to which she responds with, improvisational, “truth response” dance.
She integrates community responses into the script for her performances.
There is a performance series in development, also called Journey to the Heart Warrior, for which Candace has created a 35 minute and 15 minute piece that includes poetry written by veterans, quotes from interviews she has done with veterans and sharing of her own personal relationship and explorations with trans-generational trauma, heartbreak and peace. She will develop more live performances as the journey continues.
Candace is a performance coach and Self-Exploration Witnessing (S.E.W.ing) guide. S.E.W.ing is the name of her creative process which is based in body, breath, truth & honesty explorations. As a part of the Heart Warrior Project, she is developing a sponsorship model in which one community member can sponsor another community member - veteran, family member of or anyone in great need and desire - to work with her privately in the S.E.W.ing process.
So far she has had two people sponsored and is in the early stages of partnering with other local practitioners whose work compliments the S.E.W.ing work.
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Contact UsMaking a documentary film series: Journey to the Heart Warrior
We are video documenting this journey with the Heart Warrior Project - this journey to the Heart Warrior in each of us. If you would like to be interviewed about your personal healing journey, your feelings on community and/or show us around your community, please let us know. We look forward to meeting you! |
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