YOUR VOICE AS CATALYST
~ for hidden revolutionaries, healers, coaches, artists, leaders ~
a 6 week journey to create ONE POWERFUL EXPRESSION that propels you to act on what is calling you
to create, speak and embody
a 4-minute ‘Catalyst Expression,’ a poetic monologue about what has kept you silent, and what you want to speak
AND
translating that EXPRESSION into an actionable vision and taking 3 tiny steps towards it…
liberating your voice out into the world and becoming seeds of inspiration for speeches, blogs, books, coaching programs, conversations, and/or whatever is calling to you.
…so you are seen and act as the no-longer hidden revolutionary, coach, healer, writer, leader, dismantler of oppressions that you are.
SIX 90 MINUTE SESSIONS starting WED, March 27, 2024
THIS IS AN INVITATION TO
~ Leatrice Lewis ~
After I spoke my CATALYST EXPRESSION, I felt like a mule who had traveled from Mexico to Shiwina (Zuni) for the first time. We all have been carrying the burdens of colonization since the 1500's. I also felt like a bird (child of eagle), a flapping of wings trying to take flight on wounded wings. Finally, wings in flight, soaring and continuing the journey to be part of ancestral destiny.
I’m Shebana Coelho, a performance artist, writer/filmmaker and facilitator of workshops. Originally from India, once based in New Mexico, now in Spain where I study flamenco. In 2018, I wrote a poem about fear that changed my life, that became a catalyst for rewiring my relationship with fear - it rippled out and changed what I believe was possible for me, it converted my greatest fear (being seen on a stage) to my deepest passion (being seen on a stage!) (more about my journey here)
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS THAT IT FREED ME TO PLAY WITH FEAR INSTEAD OF BEING STUCK IN IT
TESTIMONIALS
YOUR VOICE AS CATALYST was so joyful. Our group made very deep connections. Shebana is engaging and generous …She brings a rich multicultural knowledge and sensitivity that weaves into a magical way of guiding the body, mind and soul of people who work with her. Her patient and sensitive approach midwifes people into to deep levels of themselves and the story they want to tell.
- Caroline LeBlanc Writer, Artist, Psychotherapist, and Army Nurse Veteran
This journey of YOUR VOICE AS CATALYST is about practicing to engage with fear playfully
so you are liberated and empowered
to create the seeds of your next true expression
and to take 3 tiny itty bitty steps towards it
It’s mysterious and practical
ps; you don’t need one dot of performance experience or even an interest in performing to participate,
because the CATALYST EXPRESSION is for your body and spirit to heal, to feel catharsis, and free you to see and act on what you love.
…Now I feel ready to discover more of the world, I feel lighter about pouring my heart out, all corners of it. Our facilitator, Shebana Coelho is a true magician constantly pulling different facets of her multi dimensionality and joyful self out of her universal hat.
~ Dominique Mazeaud, heartist https://www.earthheartist.net/
ELEMENTS OF THE JOURNEY
Over six session, I’ll guide us with writing prompts, visualizations and meditations that ground us in energies of nature, and from that vastness: we’ll write about silence and expression in the context of:
HISTORY: what structures did we step into that were already in place, what boxes; what is hidden in silence, and what wants to speak?
IMAGINATION: what beliefs, fears do we imagine that keep us in a box of fears? what does it feel like when you embrace the sounds that want to speak?
We’ll write using the language of the senses - image, smell, taste, sound, touch - so our words enter the body, where it can find its integration and release.
You will leave with
…seeing what your silence is made of and what has kept you from living things that you want to live
…glimpses of actions you want to take, speaking the speech, standing up in the meeting, writing the book, the idea you want to manifest, the love you want to embrace
…resources for engaging playfully with silence and fear
….experiencing a sense of Play that allows for MOVEMENT. That’s what I hope this workshop catalyzes - a sense of urgency to stand up in your true nature….
SUMMARY & SCHEDULE
6 Wednesdays 10-11:30am US Mountain Time (check your local time here)
March 27, Session 1: Inviting Fear in for tea
April 3, Session 2: Exploring the truth and fiction of what keeps you silent (Write & Embody)
April 10, Session 3:Expressing what wants to speak (Write & Embody)
April 17, Session 4: Sharing Messy First Drafts
April 24, Session 5: Catalyst Sharing Circle
May 1, Session 6: Everyday Catalyst: charting the smallest next steps
plus
*one 1:1 Story Session with Shebana (@50 min): to share, refine, distill, consult, write, embody….
plus
optional take home exercises that you can do on your own or with an assigned parter from the circle, (a different partner every week so you meet your fellow storytravelers in the circle)
This will be a SMALL GROUP of 6, max.
~ Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2010-2012
Writing teacher for over thirty years
Shebana Coelho is one of those people whose natural grace and intelligence can't help but inspire the rest of us to shine brighter. Her natural voice in writing and open heart mixed with imaginative powers make her a fine teacher of writing.
Your Voice as Catalyst series was a profound experience. It was an opportunity to give expression to the thoughts and feelings that have been looping in my mind and nagging at my soul. Shebana worked her shamanic magic to create fertile soil, and to water and nurture the seeds from their imprisonment. I didn’t just enjoy it, I needed it.
Robby Parker, world music vagabond
MEET YOUR FACILITATOR - SHEBANA COELHO
I just love seeing someone surprised by their capacity for expression, a sudden sentence that just roots them and uproots them. Since 2012, I’ve created and facilitated tailored workshops in New Mexico, Ireland, American Samoa, Hawaii, New Jersey, Palestine, Mongolia and Zuni Pueblo (NM) for a diversity of populations such as artists, writers. family care providers, non-profits, women's rights activists, and young theater makers. More here
“Every time fear arrives..” an excerpt from the Spain version of my solo play, The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects
Questions? More info? Schedule a free 30 min Zoom call
this is an all-on-its-own call in which I listen to your story and share feedback and resources that I hope will be of service to you whether you decide to join this journey or not. if none of these times work, please email me and let me know your time zone. I’m Central European Time (CET).
investment
$650*
[payments via zelle or paypal at shebana@gmail.com] for other options/currencies, please contact me.
*two partial scholarships will be available for those who identify as women of color. write to me for more info
ANY QUESTIONS OR TO SCHEDULE A FREE 30 MIN ZOOM CALL, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT INFO@SHEBANACOELHO.COM
THIS JOURNEY INCLUDES
six 90 minute sessions, Wednesdays at 10 am US Mountain Time (check your time here)
one hour-long 1:1 Story Session with Shebana to get to the heart of your catalyst expression.
optional take home exercises on your own
option breakaway sessions with an assigned partner.
if you need to break your payment down into 2 payments, let me know
LYNN & MATHEW MATHER
We were delighted to have Shebana as a guest facilitator on our MA Art, Psyche and Creative Imagination programme at Limerick School of Art and Design. She took our students for the day for creative poetry, embodied movement and more. Shebana has an immediate enchanted presence and the rare talent of organically bringing anyone and groups of people with her into rich layers of sacred play and effortless flow into the various forms of imaginative expressions that she is so experienced and infectiously able to convey.
Pauline Stanley
I recently experienced a liberating and empowering, playful session around movement, poetry and our connection to the more than human world with Shebana. She is a magician!
your voice as catalyst
at the end of this journey, you’ll embrace…
…a felt body sense of freedom to hear the SOUND of your voice, writing and speaking words that show you how you want to live this year
…a resonant blueprint for actions you want to take this year: a conversation you want to have, standing up in the meeting, writing the book, the idea you want to manifest or something MYSTERIOUS that you have not given yourself permission to even speak out loud
…an experience of PLAYFULNESS that empowers you to flow and follow your SOUND
…so you can begin this new year committed to living and loving as no-longer hidden out-loud YOU that you are
aagé chalo, let us go, my friends, let us go! especially now, the word needs your voice speaking what you love…
Your voice as catalyst
Your voice as catalyst
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