Social Presencing Theater (SPT) decolonizes learning by reclaiming the body as an equitable way of knowing and being. SPT centers first-person experience via an improvisational and cyclical process, inviting participants to perceive a larger present. This event, organized by Prof. Heather Huggins (Queensborough Community College), invites attendees to immerse in Social Presencing Theater, including group practices and ways to map the complexity of our educational system. Facilitators will share about the potential for body-based knowledge to transform structures, including SPT’s capacity to illuminate patterns from the personal to the systemic. Facilitators will also share how body-based practices offer wisdom for re-generating culture, transforming social dynamics from exclusion to inclusion and from violence to peace. This event aligns with the Council on Undergraduate Research’s UR Week. Facilitators will include members of QCC’s student and alumni practice group; Arawana Hayashi, a co-founder of Social Presencing.
