🌧️ CHECK! - Somatics of Our Collective Survival

With Morgan Vanderpool, LCSW (they/he)

What does it look & feel like to survive together in a time of collapse—while honoring our bodies, our aliveness, our Earth, and each other?

Our climate and political systems are fracturing, and the inherited systems of colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism are putting up a gnarly fight as they collapse. Everyday, we are feeling the intensity & heat of all of this in our neural systems — all while co-learning how to lovingly build the present and future we need to survive, together. 

This experiential workshop invites participants into a more loving & capable relationship with our survival. We will do this by focusing on strengthening our connection to somatic rhythms, neuro-coherence, connection, play, and collective relational skill-building.

Through somatic & body percussive practices, movement, reflection, and relational exercises, collective trauma specialist and educator, Morgan Vanderpool, offers an embodied exploration of adrenaline as life force—something to steward rather than fear, ignore or avoid. Together we’ll practice bottom-up neural system practices to interrupt calcified patterns, and cultivate connection, choice, and aliveness.

Rooted in somatics, trauma-responsive facilitation, liberation practice, and collective care, this workshop is both playful and profound—part ritual, part neural system lab, part community movement practice.

In This Workshop We’ll Explore:

• How survival responses live in the body—and how they can become sites of creativity and connection

• “Body Drums” as portals for coherence, rhythm, and embodied communication

• Bottom-up practices for working with stress, activation, and collective uncertainty

• Movement & relational exercises for building neuro-coherence & choice-based connection

• Practice space for connecting with our capacity to fight for & protect one another (a.k.a. navigating adrenalin’s intensity while staying connected to self & others)

• Poetry/writing, movement, and liberatory somatic practice as resources for collective survival Thanks for playing

This offering is for folks tending the r/evolution- community tenders, organizers, healers, artists, therapists, educators, activists, neurodivergent folks, survivors, and anyone longing for embodied ways to meet these r/evolutionary times.

Especially resonant for those curious about:

• Somatics and neural system tending

• Skilling-up in community practice space the layer beyond 1-1 healing dynamics

• Collective liberation and embodied futures

• Trauma-responsive community practice

• Climate grief and resilience

• Rhythm, movement, and body-based learning

• Transforming survival into connection & collaboration

All bodies and abilities welcome.

This is a choice-based, trauma-responsive space grounded in choice and multiple access points to participating. You are invited to engage at the pace and in the way(s) that work(s) for your body.

Accessibility supports include:

• Seated, standing, and adaptable movement options

• Participation through movement, witnessing, journaling, or rest

• Choice-based participation throughout

• Space & time given for sensory modulation and self-tending

• “Community care as self care, and self-care as community care” woven throughout

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**If you have specific access needs, please reach out in advance to Morgan via text 253-697-0190 or Signal @MVP.85— & we’ll do our best to support them. **

COVID Community Care

To help keep these gatherings accessible and safer for immunocompromised and higher-risk community members (including the facilitator):

• For events hosted outdoors, there will be shade & covered areas included in the workshop space.

• High-quality masking is HIGHLY encouraged for moments of closer up connection amongst participants outdoors & for indooor events (KN95/N95 preferred)

• Pre-event rapid testing is strongly encouraged

• Please stay home if feeling unwell or recently exposed to communicable illnesses

Thank you for aiding in creating a culture of collective care.

San Francisco 6.22.26

• Private residence in the Castro District

  • (ground level garden & bathroom, some walkways may be a little narrow, but wheeled devices can pass with support)

• Address sent directly to registrants.

Oakland 6.23.26

• Local farm/garden in West Oakland

  • (bathroom requires 5 steps, farm itself is ada accessible)

• Address sent directly to registrants.

Tacoma 7.19.26

• At 350 Tacoma’s location on Puyallup Ave

  • (ground floor and ADA accesible with some light assistance at doorways for wheeled devices)

Let’s make sure ya arrived well supported:

• Hydration options

• Nourishment for yourself and any extra you feel inspired to share

• Face mask- KN95

• Journal/notebook to draw & write in.

• Headphones & something to play some of your favorite music on for yourself *silent disco* style

• Seating/squish- There will be picnic tables and lawn for seating options. Please feel welcome to bring camp chairs & blankets if ya would like to have your own personalized seating.

• Sun protection (and/or rain layers if needed)- there is a covered area for us to be and during some activities you could be exposed to the elements

2.5 hr Investment Scale

$75–$225

You’re invited you to pay at the level that aligns with your resources:

• $75 – Community/supporter rate

• $125 – Sustainer rate (at cost)

• $175 – Solidarity rate (helps support broader access)

3.5 hr Investment Scale

$95–$195

You’re invited you to pay at the level that aligns with your resources:

• $95 – Community/supporter rate

• $145 – Sustainer rate (at cost)

• $195 – Solidarity rate (helps support broader access)

BUDDY PASS! If you register with a buddy, you can use the code- BUDDYLOVE

No one turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF)— please reach out about skill-trade, payment-plan & other access options (via text 253-697-0190 or Signal @MVP.85).