Workshops

What does it mean to remain human in the new age of artificial intelligence? In this immersive weekend workshop, we’ll explore this profound question together, journeying from awareness to empowerment to integration as we discover how to shape our relationship with AI while preserving what matters most.

Through hands-on AI demonstrations, creative labs, and experiential exercises, we’ll witness firsthand both the remarkable capabilities and profound implications of this technology. We’ll experiment with AI as a creative collaborator, experimenting with the technology in conscious ways. With somatic practices, guided meditation, and time in nature, we’ll envision the future we want, free from tech industry narratives about what’s “inevitable.”

Each session will blend practical exploration with deep reflection. Through live talks and demonstrations, group dialogue, and creative experimentation, we’ll explore AI’s current capabilities while staying grounded in embodied practices. Throughout the experience, we’ll integrate insights through authentic sharing and meaningful connection with one another, and with ourselves.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop your personal AI Code of Practice, create conscious engagement with technology, and forge genuine connections with fellow participants. This workshop offers resources and perspectives to support you in bringing these meaningful conversations to your own communities, helping others find empowerment rather than overwhelm in our rapidly changing world.

Most people are not stuck because they lack insight. They are stuck because inherited rhythms still live in the body. Rhythms of culture, survival, and belonging that have shaped what felt safe, possible, or forbidden.

Join this transformative weekend workshop on disrupting inherited grooves, creating inner and collective space, and practicing new life. In music, a breakbeat interrupts the expected pattern and opens a new groove. In life, a break can become a threshold: a sacred interruption where breath returns, choice awakens, and new movement becomes possible.

During our time together, we  will:

• Practice guided breath and somatic awareness to cultivate presence, spaciousness, and nervous system capacity.
• Work with powerful prompts and reflective writing to identify inherited rhythms, default responses, and outdated survival strategies.
• Engage in storytelling, witnessing, and peer coaching circles to be seen clearly, listen deeply, and practice new ways of relating.
• Explore gentle movement and rhythm-based collective play to interrupt automatic responses and embody new choices.
• Create simple integration rituals and commitments that support continued becoming in life, leadership, creativity, relationships, and healing.

This experience is for anyone ready to move beyond inherited grooves and practice a more embodied, communal, creative, and choiceful life. One rooted in lineage, healing, and collective possibility.

Revolutionary findings in neuroscience have demonstrated that we can literally re-architect the very structure of our brains. In fact, we can even rewire our neurology to be more focused, calmer, and happier.

In this workshop, Dr. Shauna Shapiro — a leading scientist studying the effects of meditation on well-being — will teach you the most powerful science-based practices for increasing the neural pathways of happiness. She’ll explain basic brain science and offer a clear roadmap for living a joyful, connected, and meaningful life. Be prepared for unexpected transformation and delight.

During this weekend workshop, we’ll learn:

• Science-based practices to increase your baseline level of happiness.
• How to cultivate greater joy, gratitude, and connection.
• To integrate these practices into our everyday lives.

Recommended Reading: Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire the Brain for Calm, Clarity + Joy and Good Morning, I Love You: A Guided Journal for Calm, Clarity + Joy by Shauna Shapiro.

This workshop includes an additional $375 faculty tuition. *For anyone facing financial hardship, Dr. Shauna Shapiro invites you to contact her directly for tuition scholarship at slshapiro@scu.edu.

Even in the deepest conflict, the human capacity for connection and healing remains.

What does it take to connect in a time of deep division?
How do we remain open, and in relationship when pain, history, and identity pull us apart?

In this experiential workshop, you’re invited into a living field of practices that have supported Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs, in meeting across some of the most profound lines of conflict. Emerging from years of work with Together Beyond Words and the Army of Healers (formed in the wake of October 7), this approach brings together body, heart, and mind to gently rebuild trust — within ourselves and with one another.

While rooted in the Middle East, the work speaks directly to the challenges many of us face today, including rising polarization in the United States. It offers grounded, human ways to stay present, connected, and curious, even in the midst of difference.

Together, we will explore simple yet powerful practices — grounding, movement, play, storytelling, and deep listening — that help us meet ourselves and others with awareness and care. Drawing from Internal Family Systems, you’ll be guided to notice and work with your own inner reactions, “unblend” from activated parts, and practice the U-turn as both an inner and relational tool.

Through compassionate communication, listening partnerships, and small-group exploration, you’ll have space to slow down, connect, and experience what becomes possible when we meet one another with curiosity instead of certainty.

Whether you’re a facilitator, educator, healer, or simply someone longing for more authentic connection in divided times, this workshop offers both personal transformation and practical tools. It invites you to deepen your capacity to navigate conflict with presence, build trust across differences, and reconnect with a sense of hope.

Recommended reading: The Magic of Tears by Nitsan Joy Gordon;  Together Beyond Words: Women on a Quest for Peace in the Middle East by Nitsan Joy Gordon;  The internal Family Systems Workbook by Richard Schwartz; Creating Healing Circles by Chris Burris;Wounds into Wisdom by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone; Dance, Dialogue and Despair by Haim Gordon; I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey by Izzeldin Abuelaish; The Lemmon Tree by Sandy Tolan; Gift of the Red Bird by Paula D’Arcy

Your legacy is not just something you leave behind. It is something you create through the way you live each day. This is an invitation to reflect on the deeper impact of your life, relationships, work, creativity, and leadership — and to consciously embody the legacy you are here to live.

Through guided practices, storytelling, visioning, and transformational dialogue, participants will reconnect to what truly matters and align their lives with enduring meaning, authentic contribution, and purposeful action.

Together, we will explore questions such as:

• What is the unique contribution only you can make?
• How do you want the people you love to experience you today, not just remember you tomorrow?
• What values, wisdom, and way of being are you here to embody and pass forward?
• What old identities or stories are ready to be released so your authentic legacy can emerge?
• How do you live in a way that allows your presence to become your greatest gift?

Leave with greater clarity about the life you are creating, the relationships you are cultivating, and the enduring gifts you are already living. Whether your contribution is expressed through your family, community, creativity, leadership, service, or the way you show up each day, discover practical tools, renewed inspiration, and a deeper commitment to creating your living legacy.