By Aalia Hashem

Momentum

Contact Facilitator ​Trainings

In touch with what is alive.

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The Art of ​Facilitation

Are you ready to change the way you see yourself, your body, and the world around you, as an initiation into leading the Contact Improvisation movement?

To learn to lead dance containers with fun, play, knowledge, and integrity?

In our MOMENTUM CONTACT TRAININGS we will deep dive into all things Contact, including leadership and facilitation tools, somatic practices, and of course, our tried and true Momentum Workshop method for sharing the practice with new contact dancers.

Do you feel that ​spark when ​you dance ​Contact?

Do you want to live your days on your own ​timeline, a fuller expressed version of yourself, ​feeling connected to those around you in your ​community?

Do you want to be touched by the hearts of ​those around you as they open up into greater ​possibilities in body, mind, and soul, all ​through the dance of Contact Improvisation?

Is to step intO the arena of ​leading dancers as a contact ​Improvisation facilitator, ​leader and entrepreneur.

Is To grow into something ​larger than yourself by ​serving your students.

Is to dance with life.

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Teaching ​As A Calling

This training will change the way you see yourself, movement, ​the body, and the world around you as an initiation.

As you learn to lead you will meet your edges within yourself and ​others. This training provides resourcing with an internal toolkit ​to navigate teaching challenges.

Previous Momentum students are already facilitating Contact ​Improvisation classes and jams in the local and International ​dance communities.

Let us serve with a framework to share the practice.

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ThisTraining ​Is For You If

✔️ You want to find more confidence, grace and ease in ​how you show up teaching.

✔️ You want to start or contribute to your own contact ​community, but don’t know where to begin.

✔️ You wish to connect with other like-minded contact ​dancers and build a worldwide network of collaborators.

✔️ You want to learn how to regulate your own nervous ​system while teaching, prepare for classes, and all the ​little extras - such as finding venues and how to handle ​injuries.

✔️ You are already a teacher but need some more ​inspiration and ideas to create sequences in teaching.

✘ Wanting to create fun jams isn’t ​enough.

✘ Wanting to make an impact and ​create a community isn’t enough.

✘ Wanting to share what you know ​and teach contact skills isn’t ​enough.

✔️ It’s how you break it down so students understand you.

✔️ It’s how you deal with personal off days, challenges, and setbacks.

✔️ It’s how you run a business, so the business doesn’t run you down.

✔️ It’s how you stay educated about Contact Improvisation, where it came from and why we are dancing it.

✔️ It’s how you plan workshops and classes that leave students writing thank you messages afterward, claiming their transformations with gratitude.

✘ Collaborate with more experienced teachers

✘ Teach a class during a jam to cater to newcomers

✘ Undercharge for my workshops and jams to ​compete with the market.

✘ Include free lunches or free jams as incentives.

✘ Accept no-shows, no-payments, and clients who ​didn’t value the work.

✘ Overcompensate by attending and spending ​money on a lot of advanced contact trainings and ​contact festivals, not trusting that what I knew, was ​enough.

❤ Cultivating my energy, mindset, self-care, and ​embodiment as a leader.

❤ Focusing on tweaking and delivering the best ​workshop and serving my students (x on repeat.)

❤ Attending leadership, facilitation and coaching ​trainings to uplevel myself as a teacher.

❤ Creating systems, branding, and messaging ~ so the ​right dancers registered, and my life became easier.

❤ Interviewing and learning from Contact Improvisation ​teachers who have been in the field 25 - 40 + years

❤ Continuing to dance, love, and research contact ​improvisation, where it lit me up.

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Momentum Contact ​Improvisation Fundamental ​Skills Workshop is what I will ​sharing with you as a formula ​for welcoming newcomers ​with dance technique, play, ​and mindfulness (LEVEL 2).

This workshop has been ​shared over 25 times in Bali ​and Canada since 2020, ​training hundreds of dancers ​in the contact community.

As a two day workshop over 11 ​hours, we cover the primary ​pathways in Contact ​Improvisation for newcomers, ​including extras such as ​contemporary floorwork, ​Authentic Movement, Bodywork, ​Bartenieff Fundamentals.

You are welcome to break down ​this material to teach as classes ​or pre-jam warm ups.

Momentum ​Students ​Learn

✔️ Contact Improvisation principles, such as falling, ​sharing weight, listening, and center of gravity.

✔️ Beginners Foundational Skills, including low post, ​surfing and safety in basic lifts.

✔️ Supporting practices - Authentic Movement, ​Contemporary Floorwork, Bartenieff Fundamentals, ​Bodywork and Qigong.

These principles are what we are teaching you how to ​facilitate, from a place of embodied knowledge, play, ​patience and curiousity.

Contact Improvisation became a ​driving force to knowing my body ​and other's since it entered my life in ​2018. It shaped my identity because ​of it’s dynamic fluidity and ever-​changing nature. To dance is to live.

Having practiced many dance forms ​for over 20 years - from hip hop to ​swing dance, I fell in love with ​Contact from first touch / flight.

My background of studying CI has ​taken me to learn from over 40 ​International Contact teachers.

As a 3rd generation CI teacher, I stay connected ​to it's historical roots in North America. My ​training began in Vancouver at Edam Dance ​Company, with some of the CI originators of ​the practice, including Andrew Harwood, Anne ​Cooper, Kirstie Simson & Peter Bingham.

Along the way, I’ve created Faces of CI - the ​podcast interviewing Contact Facilitators, and ​Contact Body, an online Contact course, while ​also dancing and directing in music videos.

I’ll be sharing embodied knowledge from ​teaching since 2019, forming the path of ​hosting retreats, classes, jams, and workshops ​in Bali, Thailand, and Canada.

-Aalia

Now I get to support new facilitators in achieving ​THEIR vision of what it means to “be a contact ​teacher” through honoring their inherent gifts, and in ​the ways THEY want to support their communities.

We've been told by our grads :

"Wow! This gave so many tools & opened up so many ​possibilities for me to teach other dance styles and be ​facilitator in other areas in my life."

THREE Contact Facilitators have already gone through ​our Momentum Training in Bali, and are now teaching ​in China, Portugal, and United States.

“I got to attend and teach this time ​during Momentum workshop, so I had a ​lot of 1:1 time AND I got to meet all these ​amazing people and experience the ​actual Momentum Contact Workshop. I ​felt like it was a great result.

I think beyond the technical pieces you ​taught me, I really enjoyed seeing the ​maturity of your style of managing the ​room, managing the group, managing ​the day, managing a sequence to keep ​the flow, to keep energy high. It's ​something I didn't really think about. I ​didn't realize how much thought goes ​into this. There's a reason why some ​people run really good workshops and ​some don't.

I think before this facilitator ​training started, I just wanted to ​get through to the end. But to be ​at the end and I still feel high and ​happy!

This was something I really ​wanted to do for myself, and I ​came here and completed it, and ​that feels like a big win. I'm really ​happy to have done this. "

-Andy Chen

United States / Portugal

“ I just completed the 10 day training with so ​many takeaways. This journey was about ​exploring my inner self and expanding the ​boundaries of my world.

We learned the history and culture of CI, ​contact skills, as well as useful and practical ​skills to not be injured and dance safely. We ​had sessions on marketing, holding energy of ​the container, and how to co-operate with ​venues. Not just dance but beyond the dance, ​helping us to become independent facilitators.

Before this, I was not sure if I could make it, ​because maybe I don’t have enough ​experience or know how to communicate, but ​it happened naturally in the teaching, because ​of all that we learned here with Aalia’s trust ​and guidance. It was a very joyful and playful ​time together!

This is more than knowledge, but ​confidence and support. I’m so lucky to be a ​part of this and meet you all. I can’t wait to ​share this in my China Contact Community.

It’s not easy for me, I felt confused before ​this training about my career, but after this ​training it became so clear. In every ​moment, Aalia was helping us to create a ​good experience. If you want to be a ​facilitator, come and join us - it’s so ​worthwhile!”

-Sunny Zheng

Beijing, China

WHO THIS IS FOR:

What’s included:

New facilitators who are looking to host ​Contact Jams, new contact facilitators ​under 2 years, or dance facilitators in ​other styles looking to share contact ​improv and manage their business.

When you join you get access to our online ​portal with classes on:

✷ Leadership, Energy, & Classroom ​Management

✷ Business, Marketing & Social Media Tools

✷ The Art of Hosting Jams Guide

✷ Spotify Jam Playlists & Tips on Musicality

✷ Jam Guidelines Resources

✷ Medical Care for Common Contact Injuries

✷ Telegram Contact Community & Support

INVESTMENT

$555 USD

launching April 2024.

WHO THIS IS FOR:

What’s included:

✷ Advanced Leadership Masterclass

✷ Contact Body (online resource course)

✷ Additional 20 hours in sessions - in person

✷ Learn to teach Momentum Workshop

✷ Coaching 1:1 in person on your teaching style

✷ Momentum Workshop Manual and Certification

✷ Post training Mentorship Call

Value $2300, priced $1888 USD.

You want to uplevel your teaching ​skillset and become certified to teach ​Momentum, our beginners contact ​workshop. Come join us, in Bali, Thailand, ​or Canada, when we have a Momentum ​Workshop scheduled.

INVESTMENT

$1888 USD

*Pre-requisite = Level 1

our online training.

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Doors open to register April 1st, and our online

program launches April 10th.

LEVEL 1 & 2 - BY APPLICATION

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