11/8/2008: Heal the Healer workshop, NYC

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Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)

451 West Street

New York, New York 10014

toplab@...

http://www.toplab.org

The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory,

founded in 1990,

presents

Heal the Healer--a PLaYlab

Saturday, November 8, 2008 from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm

A Program of Go to Health!, a Mobile Medical Clinic and Traveling Medicine

Show in the Making

facilitated by Kira- Ferrand

at the Brecht Forum

451 West Street *

New York City

* travel directions appended below

Our inability to adapt to stress causes hypertension, ulcers, gastric

disorders, sleep and sexual dysfunction, anxiety, and both endocrine and

general central nervous system overload.

The Heal the Healer PLaYlab offers a grab bag of time-efficient techniques

that emphasize self-care, particularly around stress management and

burnout. The PLaYlab means just that--an opportunity to spend a few hours

experimenting in a safe environment to transform tension into serenity. We

can't always remove the stressors in our lives, but we can titrate our

reactions to them. We are all caregivers, but often we lose sight of the

need for self-care. This PLaYlab offers motivational encouragement,

practical and quick interventions, gleaned from Reiki, Cranio-Sacral,

Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, Theater of the Oppressed, Applied

Kinesiology, Yoga and Meditative techniques, to mention just a few. We

offer 5-second meditations for the avowed non-meditator; pranayama or

yogic breathing cleansings; and other quick transformational techniques

for those of us on the fast track. Go to Health! designs these interactive

sessions around the needs of the participants.

Kira- Ferrand, has been in private practice as an Applied

Kinesiologist for over thirty years. She practices in New York,

California, Istanbul and Rome. She works with cancer patients and others

of all ages on issues that range from pre- and post-partum to fascia and

misalignment.

Pre-registration requested. Let us know you will be coming by writing to

us at toplab@... or pre-register online at

http://brechtforum.org/node/2022?bc=

Tuition--sliding scale: $45-$85

*****

Other upcoming TOPLAB events, Fall 2008:

Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19

Introduction to the Theater of the Oppressed: Image Theater and the

Aesthetics of the Oppressed II--The Mask

facilitated by Potri Ranka Manis and Marie- Picher

More info and online registration at http://brechtforum.org/node/2002?bc=

**

Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, November 23

Introduction to the Theater of the Oppressed: Image Theater and the

Aesthetics of the Oppressed III--Sound and Movement

facilitators to be announced

More info and online registration at http://brechtforum.org/node/2003?bc=

**

Saturday, December 13 and Sunday, December 14

Introduction to the Theater of the Oppressed: Image Theater and the

Aesthetics of the Oppressed IV--The Written Word

facilitated by Larraine Brown and Janet Gerson

More info and online registration at http://brechtforum.org/node/2004?bc=

*****

Travel Directions

The Brecht Forum is at 451 West Street (West Side Highway) in Manhattan,

between Bank and Bethune Streets, 1-1/2 blocks north of West 11 Street.

IND Eighth Avenue A, C, or E train to 14 Street or BMT Canarsie L train to

8 Avenue (take a few minutes to look at " Life Underground " , Tom Otterness'

series of whimsical bronze sculptures scattered throughout both sections

of the station); walk down 8 Avenue to Bank Street, turn right, walk west

to West Street, turn right.

IRT Seventh Avenue 1, 2, or 3 train to 14 Street; get off at south end of

station, walk west on 12 Street to 8 Avenue, left to Bank Street, turn

right, walk west to West Street, turn right.

New Jersey PATH train to Street; walk north on Greenwich

Street to Bank Street, left to West Street, turn right.

#8 bus to West Street; walk up West Street to 451.

#11, #14A or #20 bus to Abingdon Square; walk west on Bank Street to West

Street, turn right.

#14D bus to 8 Avenue and 14 Street, walk down 8 Avenue to Bank Street,

turn right, walk west to West Street, turn right.

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The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)

toplab@...

http://www.toplab.org

" My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the

battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. "

-- W. Bush, May 1, 2003

" ...I told the American people that the road ahead would be difficult, and

that we would prevail. Well, it has been difficult--and we are

prevailing. "

-- W. Bush, June 28, 2005

" Our cause in Iraq is noble and necessary....America is engaged in a new

struggle that will set the course for a new century. We can and we will

prevail. "

-- W. Bush, January 10, 2007

" Prevailing in Iraq is not going to be easy. "

-- W. Bush, March 19, 2007

+U.S. military fatalities through May 1, 2003: 140

+U.S. military fatalities through June 28, 2005: 1743

+U.S. military fatalities through January 10, 2007: 3017

+U.S. military fatalities through March 19, 2007: 3217

+U.S. military fatalities as of October 6, 2008: 4177 (this figure exceeds

the number of people killed in all of the incidents that occurred on

September 11, 2001)

+Iraqi deaths due to the US invasion, as of September 2004 (estimated by

The Lancet): 100,000+

+Iraqi deaths due to the US invasion, as of July 2006 (estimated by The

Lancet): 654,965

+Iraqi deaths due to the US invasion, as of October 6, 2008 (estimated

by Just Foreign Policy): 1,273,378*

*These figures are based on the number of deaths estimated in The Lancet

(the British medical journal) study through July 2006, and then updated

based " on how quickly deaths are mounting in Iraq " . To do that, Just

Foreign Policy multiplies The Lancet figure as of July 2006 by the ratio

of current deaths reported by Iraq Body Count (IBC), divided by IBC deaths

as of July 1, 2006. The IBC numbers, considerably lower than those cited

by The Lancet, Opinion Research Business (a British polling firm which

estimated 1.2 million Iraqi deaths as of September 2007), and even the

Iraq Ministry of Health, are based on the number of fatalities cited in

various news reports and have been criticized, with much justification,

for not giving an accurate assessment of the real Iraqi death count. The

much more rigorous and statistically-reliable study, conducted by teams

from s Hopkins University, Columbia University and Al-Mustansiriya

University, and published in The Lancet in September 2004, put the figure

at around 100,000 civilians dead. However, that data had been based on

" conservative assumptions " , according to research team leader Les ,

and the actual count at that time was credibly assumed to be significantly

higher. For example, The Lancet study's data greatly underestimated

fatalities in Fallujah due to the surveying problems encountered there at

that time. The second Lancet study, released on October 10, 2006,

indicated that 654,965 " excess " deaths of Iraqis have occurred since the

outbreak of the aggression and genocide committed by the United States

against the people of Iraq. The current figures provided by Just Foreign

Policy seem to be logically consistent with the increasing rates of death

from 2003 to 2004, and 2004 to 2006.

Sources: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

http://icasualties.org/oif/

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

http://www.zmag.org/lancet.pdf

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/Iraq_war.html

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6271

http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20041025/008279.html

http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journal/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf