DIVERSITY & INCLUSIVITY
The Embody Lab’s goal is to make embodied wisdom accessible to the world.
Our vision is to reach the broadest audience, no matter their wealth, location, language and practice background.
We want to create an environment that invites participation from people of all races, social or economic status, ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, religions, and sexual orientation free from discrimination, patronisation or harassment.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion are central to the goals of The Embody Lab. However, as a global service our approach to equality, diversity, and inclusion may not be that of one singular perspective but aims to integrate many different perspectives on the topic.
Equality at its heart is about removing barriers, biases, and obstacles that impede equal access. We are emphasising equality of opportunity.
Diversity is about progressing towards a community that reflects our global embodiment community and the diversity of society on various levels.
Inclusion is about creating programs and an environment that is free from discrimination, where every participant is welcome, included and respected.
In order to promote the above goals of equality, diversity, and inclusion, The Embody Lab aims for:
Participant diversity – making monthly classes available to attendees as broadly as possible, free-of-charge.
Speaker diversity – recruiting speakers and panelists from diverse populations, backgrounds, and practice areas within yoga, somatics, and embodiment practices to increase diversity in thinking and perspective. We recognize that speakers and panelists will come representing intersectional identities. In our recruitment processes, we will seek to identify the richness of what embodiment practitioners bring in their being and in their practice(s). We also acknowledge that in a global outreach, recruited speakers may not always be able to speak at the conference. We acknowledge the power inherent in the speaker selection process so are looking at the following strategies to engage with embodiment practitioners as inclusively as possible. We are actively seeking to increase the diversity of our participants, speakers, and sponsors through our call for speakers and submission process and through dialogue with the larger communities we serve.
This is an ongoing process. We have focused on strategy and implementation support for equality, diversity and inclusion goals of our services and offerings. We also added a track for peace and social change as an approach to embodiment.
We are working together on our community engagement and track management processes to achieve these goals for The Embody Lab. This is a co-creative process. Here are some ways you can help us build a more diverse experience:
Recommend appropriate speakers and/or panelists to the conference team by sending an email to info@theembodylab.com.
Be Active! Join the The Embody Lab Community Facebook group and encourage others too as well.
Share your best practices in order to increase inclusion of marginalised groups for the The Embody Lab by sending us an email at info@theembodylab.com.
We value diversity in the communities we bring together, and we welcome your contributions to bringing balanced representation of the richness of our collective human experience.
This Diversity statement is licensed from O’Reilly Media, Inc. under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/. Modifications to the statement have been made by The Embody Lab.