# Workshops *\*\*Workshops are open to Harvard affiliates. Please check the events calendar for the latest times and dates.* ## Dance Workshop: G.I. Gurdjieff’s Movements Led by Charles Langmuir Fall 2024: Every other Wednesday, 5-6:15pm. First meeting: September 18, Multifaith Room, Swartz Hall. (Subsequent meetings are: 10/2, 10/16, 10/30, 11/13) Please [register](https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=094a9r1zg8rer4zf40put9aadm5g113tbfh3zjmzb2p0zj3c5tby) to attend. [Registrations to attend the G.I. Gurdjieff's Movements Workshop](https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=094a9r1zg8rer4zf40put9aadm5g113tbfh3zjmzb2p0zj3c5tby) is required. As part of its broader fall programming around the life and teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, the CSWR has partnered with the Gurdjieff Society of Massachusetts to offer a series of Movements workshops. These intentional dance exercises, a unique offering of the Gurdjieff teaching, have the potential to transform. They ask participants to be whole and to activate increasingly strong and lively attention throughout the body in motion or stillness. The exactitude of positions, changes of rhythm, and the demand for the dancer to move parts of the body independently or simultaneously with other parts all conspire to create inner conditions necessary for a changed experience of oneself. The dancer may discover moments when a finer quality of attention emerges, a more total attention rooted in mind, body, and heart. Through the beauty and rigor of the form and the richness of its music, the Movements call forth a total participation of all that one is. Gurdjieff described himself on several occasions as "a teacher of temple dancing." His dances, taught in Gurdjieff centers worldwide for a century, point individuals toward a more harmonious inner world. With its eloquent music, this form of dance may instinctively elicit an awakening. The gestural repertory of the Movements may offer a new or different way of feeling human. Beyond habitual ways of moving, thinking, and feeling, there is a new inner zone of lightness and contained vitality—of presence. "*And through a strict succession of attitudes, they lead us to a new possibility of thinking, feeling, and action. If we could truly perceive their meaning and speak their language, the Movements would reveal to us another level of understanding*." – Jeanne de Salzmann, The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff (Shambhala, 2011) **Instructor's bio:** Charles Langmuir was introduced to Movements as an adolescent and remained intensively involved with Movements working with Mme. de Salzmann, Paul Renard, and other Movements practitioners in Paris who worked directly with Gurdjieff. He began giving classes in the 1980s, and has been responsible for Movements for the Gurdjieff Society of Massachusetts for the last 20 years. [ Register to attend the G.I. Gurdjieff's Movements Workshop arrow\_circle\_right ](https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=094a9r1zg8rer4zf40put9aadm5g113tbfh3zjmzb2p0zj3c5tby) ## Ethics and Psychedelics Workshop: A Decolonial Lens on Psychedelic Ethics Led by Professor Christine Hauskeller Fall 2024: Every other Tuesday, 12-2pm. First meeting: September 24, CSWR Conference Room (Subsequent meeting dates: 10/8, 10/22, 11/5, 11/19, 12/3) [Registration](https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gf404zhzprvgp1345gc8u3ttsghr0t0zdazw5fbnk88c5jcs022s) is required. Please [register to attend the Ethics and Psychedelics Workshop](https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gf404zhzprvgp1345gc8u3ttsghr0t0zdazw5fbnk88c5jcs022s). This series of six workshops, led by Christine Hauskeller, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Exeter, explores the intersection of decolonial theory and psychedelic ethics. Participants will examine power dynamics within the evolving field of psychedelic studies, focusing on conflicts between diverse knowledge systems and practices. Beginning with an overview of decolonial concepts, students will progress through critical analyses of clinical research, aesthetic representations, and the commodification of psychedelic experiences. The final sessions will focus on those objectified by colonizing practices in the psychedelic space, namely plants and animals, indigenous groups, and underground practitioners. Each workshop will begin with a 30-minute introductory lecture, followed by a collaborative discussion to gather ideas and perspectives. In addition to the workshop sessions, a small group of students will create a poster or brief text on one of the workshops on decolonial psychedelic ethics. These contributions will be considered for presentation in the speaker series “Psychedelics and the Future of Religion” on December 10, 2024. **Instructor’s bio:** Christine Hauskeller, PhD, is a philosopher with training in sociology and psychology. Her research interests include a range of topics in moral philosophy and empirical ethics, feminist philosophy and decolonizing approaches, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, philosophy of medicine and the life sciences (especially psychedelic psychotherapy, genetics, and stem cell research), and science and technology studies. She is co-editor of Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) and Principal Investigator for the University of Exeter’s Philosophy and Psychedelics Research Group. 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