Boston Movement Community
Sep
15
to Nov 24

Boston Movement Community

YOU’RE INVITED

The E-Motion Movement Community is a movement-based community for anyone enduring the life-disrupting loss of a close person(s). Once per week, participants will come together for a walk or run, and are led through intentional grief practices that invite us to move with the hardest things, as opposed to moving on from them. The group will provide community where otherwise there is often isolation. Runners and walkers of all levels are welcome.

THE DETAILS

  • Trained E-Motion Facilitators: Becky Nyce Silva, Jonathan’s Sister, and Betsy Sullivan, Flynn’s Mom.

  • Duration: Sunday, September 15 – Sunday, November 24

  • Day, Time, & Location: Meet in person every Sunday at 10am at Heartbreak Running Co. in Newton, MA.

  • Culminating Event: Participate in the Chatham 10k on November 24th. Friends and family are welcome to come support you.

WHAT TO EXPECT

The experience combines three core aspects that participants move through together over the duration of the experience: a weekly email, a weekly group walk/run, and a culminating event that the participants complete together.

  • Weekly Group Meet-Up: Participants meet in person for a group walk/run, starting with the E-motion Opening Circle Rituals and a facilitated grief-informed conversation.

  • Weekly Grief Reflection & Contemplations: Participants receive a weekly email that includes a grief ritual and reflections, a solo training walk/run for that week, and a poem.

  • Culminating Event: At the end of the experience, the participants are invited to complete a movement-based culminating experience together.

INTERESTED IN MOVING WITH US?

  • If you want to join the Movement Community, please email either Becky (beckynyce@gmail.com) or Betsy (efsullivan63@gmail.com).

  • Learn more about the Movement Community Model here.

  • To see the Movement Community in action and hear from past participants, please watch the short video below.

The Inaugural Movement Community in Boston.

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May
16
Event, News

Create the Space: Community Series Workshop led by E-Motion

E-Motion is teaming up with Women in Soccer and Common Goal to offer a virtual workshop called “Showing Up: Sustaining and Connecting” on Thursday, May 16 at 12pm ET. This workshop is free and open to everyone as a part of the Women in Soccer Create the Space: Community Series devoted to mental health. Create the Space is the first-ever comprehensive mental health initiative in professional and grassroots soccer. Webinar-style but with practical takeaways, attendees will be invited to reflect on their own experiences in with grief, be introduced to the language of loss and grief literacy, and learn concrete ways of responding to and supporting others after a life-disrupting loss.

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