Chaos Care: creativity, meditation and somatic writing space.

During this one-hour online session, we will explore the loving concepts of sanctuary/homecoming/belonging as radical acts of care amidst chaos.
Led by artist-facilitator, writer and somatic practitioner Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson.

This project raises funds for Hurricane Melisa relief. All proceeds go to Jamaican mutual aid and grassroots initiatives.

Tickets are available on a sliding scale; please only pay as much as you can afford.

In the wake of multiple global crises fuelled by colonial-genicidal and ecologically devastating forces, it is our duty to stand/rest in the legacy of those who have paved the way. To both remember and recreate practices, pathways and possibilities that are built through the power of love. To come together andd remember who we are.

Trained and certified by Lama Rod Owens in the Seven Homecomings Meditation – join Lateisha as they combine this open and accessible teaching with creative writing prompts to help us restore, enjoy and share.

These on-hour sessions are open to all who feel called – honouring that this is both a creative practice and fundraising space.

We acknowledge that these sessions are rooted in specific lineage and community traditions, including but not limited to Tibetan Buddhism, Black feminisms, ancestral and indigenous traditions, disability justice and queer cultural space making.

If you identify as a carer, e.g., space holders, organisers, therapists, parents, earthworkers, etc. Please come and fill up your cup!

More about the facilitator:

British-Jamaican artist, facilitator, writer and somatic practitioner Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson weaves spiritual, embodied and nature-based approaches into creating spaces of aliveness and belonging.

Lateisha brings nearly 20 years of experience facilitating within countless collectives, charities and organisations. This has included; Black Lives Matter UK, We Out Here Festival, The V&A Museum: Self Care For Families, Bethlem Gallery: Ecology Of Mind, Hackney City Farm: BIPoc Climate Justice and , Autograph Gallery: Body Land Retreat, Artsadmin: Apocalypse Reading Room, misery medicine: grief space, Africa In Motion Film Festival, Queer Youth Art Collective, Chisenhale Dance:Cultivating Connection for Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists, BME Women's Leadership Programme, BIPOC Beekeeping Collective, Our Choice: abortion project, Centre Of Live Art Yorkshire, Speak Women Speak: Black Women’s Mental Health Project, Collective Futurism, 999 Club Homeless Charity, Trade Union Congress: Unpacking Power and Privilege, and Healing Justice Ldn: Black community healing circles.

Lateisha is an alumna of the Focalising Institute: Somatic Therapist 2025 Cohort, W.O.O.P.: Transformative Leadership programme for WoC across Europe and St Ethelburga’s Deep Adaptation programme for community leaders.

Lateisha’s writing has been shared across the UK and internationally, including with Montez Press and Radio, Bethlem Gallery, Camden Art Centre, Queer Ecologies Festival, Free Word, Wort Journal, Skew: Black Embodiment, ]performance s p a c e[, Artsadmin’s Apocalypse Reading Room, resting up collective, Southbank Centre, The Albany and For Books’ Sake.

Lateisha's debut poetry book, The Heart Is a Holding,~ described as 'an incredible collection of poems' by acclaimed writer CAConrad, is due to be published by Burning Eye Books in Winter 2025.

This project is hosted as part of the Collective Imagination Practice Community and funded and supported by the JRF Emerging Futures team, Canopy and Huddlecraft.