The Ground We Share: Movement for Restoration and Community Care

The Ground We Share: Movement for Restoration and Community Care

Workshop | Available

Adults
1/25/2026 (one day)
1:00 PM-3:30 PM PDT on Sun
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$65.00 USD

The Ground We Share: Movement for Restoration and Community Care

Workshop | Available

In this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and constant change, many of us feel unsteady, anxious, or stretched beyond what feels manageable. The Ground We Share offers a space to reconnect with body, creativity, and community through movement and creative expression. Participants are invited to engage with their own felt experience and the shared rhythms of the group, exploring how to attune and mirror one another. This practice nurtures grounding, presence, and space for clarity, joy, and a renewed sense of personal and collective agency.

This collaborative workshop blends guidance, tools, and embodied practices with participants’ curiosity and presence to shape the shared experience. Practices may include contributing personal objects to a co-created altar, participating in group rhythmic action to feel “in sync” with others, and exploring partner or group mirroring as a way of connecting through kinesthetic empathy. The focus is on exploring pathways from overwhelm and isolation into attuned, embodied interaction. Through ritual, rhythm, and movement, participants can deepen their relational awareness and sense of shared connection.

In this way, the workshop becomes an act of community care—fostering reciprocal, embodied connection and cultivating the empathically attuned interactions we long for in the world. Participants are invited to explore these practices in ways that can extend into daily life and community. No dance experience is required—only a willingness to move, notice, and take part in a socially engaged, restorative space.

Harrison, Lauren
Lauren Harrison

Lauren Harrison (she/her) is a dance educator, board-certified dance/movement therapist, and toddler mom who brings warmth, playfulness, and deep respect for the creative spirit in both children and adults. She holds a BFA in Dance from Arizona State University and an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling from Antioch University New England.

With over 25 years of experience facilitating dance and movement in diverse settings—including schools, community organizations, mental health programs, and performing arts centers—Lauren brings a broad and rich perspective to her work. In addition to teaching, she offers dance/movement therapy, mental health counseling, and clinical supervision through her private practice in Seattle.

Lauren is especially passionate about supporting caregivers and young children as they strengthen their connections—to each other, their bodies, and their communities—through joyful, embodied play. Motherhood has enriched her belief in dance as a powerful tool for connection, regulation, and expression, deepening her understanding of attunement and shared joy. In her classes, Lauren strives to co-create a welcoming space where children and caregivers feel seen, supported, and free to explore together—building genuine belonging and community.

Lauren is delighted to be part of the Creative Dance Center team. She first discovered the BrainDance and Anne Green Gilbert’s work in 2005 and has been weaving it into her teaching and therapy ever since—now bringing it forward with renewed heart, purpose, and intention.