Once upon a time last month, at a table at Brickyard with a handful of people, I told everyone that UNM had sold my $918 debt, which I had no idea about, to collections, turning it to $1,200, thus rendering me unable to apply for painting grad school at Tulane because UNM won’t release my transcripts until I pay off the collections agency. I also showed the group this 3-foot, in-progress watercolor on paper I just so happened to have on me:

So Matthew Sexton, who developed Engaged Presence Practice said he would hold a workshop and he’ll contribute the ticket sales to my cause! He’s amazing! You can meet him and work with him directly on Saturday, Oct. 25 from 1-3pm at Maple Street Dance Studio in Albuquerque! $35 per ticket!

Here Matt holds the burning original flier for the Engaged Presence Practice workshop.

Pyragraph: So, Matt, what exactly IS engaged presence practice and how will it make you a ninja?

Matthew Sexton: Engaged presence practice is an on-your-feet group mindfulness exercise that grows participants’ ability to interact in helpful, authentic, playful, perceptive and expressive ways AND to gracefully respond to social overload.

What do you mean by social overload?

The human brain is tuned to process human interactions and is capable of putting all its energy and focus on that. Engaged presence practice demands physical, emotional and cognitive awareness and response. It’s highly interactive. It’s playful, but it’s also draining, and everybody experiences meeting their limits and gets lots of chances to practice graceful response to the condition of overload.

Images by Eva Avenue.