“What Stops Us from Stopping?” at the Strengthening our Community Responses to DV/SA in Guam conference

July 2024

In September, Moving Rasa facilitated the final day of the four-day “Strengthening our Community Responses to DV/SA in Guam” conference. Our session centered on the question, “What stops us from stopping?”—exploring the internal and external barriers that prevent individuals and communities from addressing violence and creating change.

Through collective movement exercises, participants across genders, ages, races, and abilities engaged in powerful experiences that helped them reflect on their relationship to their work. We encouraged participants to listen to their own non-verbal emergence and consider how they could create space for survivors to do the same. The second half of the day included wellness practices from AI Acupuncture and Community as One, offering new approaches for cultivating wellness in daily life.