Seasonal Workshops
Our bodies have seasons, cycles, and rhythms that are deeply connected to the seasons of the earth. In these day long workshops, we will move toward alignment with the season.
Upcoming: Welcoming Winter
In this day long workshop, we will move toward alignment with the winter season. We will set intentions, welcome in winter, and orient toward this season of slowness, reflection, and grief. We will learn about plants that are warming and support grief, and discuss ways to work with them through the winter season.
Participants leave with an orientation for grounding through winter, deeper connection to winter, deepened awareness of their own seasons and cycles, sharpened tools for connecting with their bodies, and an introduction to different plants and herbal supports, and suggestions on how to work with them through the winter.
Friday, November 15, 2024, 6-9pm CT, in person, Wondergem Photography Studio, Chicago, IL. Exact location shared on registration. Includes vegan dinner and hot tea. $100, sliding scale and trades welcome!
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 11:00-2pm (PT), 1-4 (CT), 2-5 (ET) Virtual. sliding scale and trades welcome!
For more information or to register, email wonderandroses@gmail.com.
Contending with Capitalism
The contending with capitalism workshop series is designed to interrupt the ways the logics of racial capitalism become internalized, embodied, and reproduced in our relationships and ways of being in the world. Each workshop focuses on a key mechanism of capitalism: scarcity, accumulation, individualism, and property. Workshops are offered virtually and in-person, and typically held on the weekends.
Workshops are a great place to start if you’re interested in a 3-month program, but not quite ready to make the commitment. You can add up to four coaching sessions to workshops at a discounted rate, and we will co-create your own personalized program.
Email wonderandroses@gmail.com for more information or to register.
Already Whole: Rejecting Improvement
The current dominant social and economic order encourages people to relate to their bodies and lives as sites of lack in need of continuous improvement. Wellness is transformed into a commodity and our bodies are made into projects. In this workshop, we will identify ways the pull of improvement impacts our relationship with our bodies, cultivate connection with our inherent wholeness, and set intentions for 2025. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of neoliberalism and the logic of improvement, practices for deepening connection and embodiment, and how to work with plants as guides for restoring balance, cultivating connection, and practicing self- love.
Virtual. Saturday, January 11, 11-2pm (PT), 2-5 (EST), $50.
Accountable Abundance
We live on a planet of plenty, but dominant cultural norms affirm plunder, extraction, and drive ways of relating to time, each other, and ourselves through a framework structured by scarcity. In this spring workshop, we’ll discuss scarcity in relationship with time and resources, and re-orient toward collectivity, mutual aid, and expansiveness. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of scarcity, practices for grounding in slowness in the face of time-scarcity, and how to work with plants as guides in cultivating collectivity and practicing accountable abundance.
Dates, TBD.
“You do Not have to Be Good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”
MEET YOUR Teacher
Taylor Rose, PhD
Dr. Taylor Rose Wondergem holds a PhD in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. She combines a decade of university teaching experience with folk & clinical western herbalism and professional coaching to offer workshops and courses designed to cultivate collective care and resiliency in the face of capitalism's relentless conditions. She is a queer femme, white cis woman, neurodivergent, and carries working class roots from the midwest. Her teaching and classes have been described as “inspirational” and “empowering.”