The COPS in your head | 15 May 2025, at 7pm EST | Led by Certified Trainer Tuulia Syvänen and Gabriel Vivas-Martinez.
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How was the last time you danced on the street? Walked not in the way you learned but following what really felt good in that moment?
Norms, institutions of power, oppressions and privileges shape how we behave. How we talk. How we move. How we connect to our bodies. Often internalized, we don’t often see the “cops in our heads”, the many “shoulds” and rules we carry for ourselves and others.
How can we celebrate our queerness and the unique ways in which we show ourselves to the world?
How can we resist the cops in our heads and reclaim our bodies, desires and emotions?
Radical Honesty trainer Tuulia Syvänen and Gabriel Vivas-Martinez, actor and researcher in Social Theater, are coming together to share answers to this question from the point of view of their practices.
You are warmly invited to join this free webinar on 15 May at
6 – 7 pm Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Vienna (CET)
5 – 6 pm UK / Ireland / Iceland
7- 8 pm Finland / Estonia
Topics will include:
✓ What is Radical Honesty and Social Theater
✓ “Shoulding” ourselves and the cops in our heads
✓ How somatic and body-oriented practices help us resisting norms and oppressions
✓ Small exercises to explore beyond what we were told is “right” or “wrong”
WHEN
Thursday 15 May 2025 at 6-7 pm (CET).
FOR WHOM
Anyone interested in the topic. You can send questions or comments beforehand and also ask questions during the event.
You can join alone with a friend / partner.
WHO IS TALKING?
This webinar is led by Tuulia Syvänen, Honesty Europe’s certified Radical Honesty trainer and Gabriel Vivas-Martinez, actor, freelancer educator, and doctoral researcher at the Centre for Education – King’s College London.
This webinar is moderated by Tutur (Arthur Parmentier).
COST
None!
REGISTRATION
Click here and register on the Honesty Europe Website to receive the zoom link.
RECORDING AND PUBLISHING
This webinar will be recorded and later published on our website honestyeurope.com. We prefer our participants to put their camera on with their name and you’re welcome to join even with camera off. Make sure you change your name beforehand if you don’t want it to appear in the recording. We will send you the recording of the call in our follow-up email as well.
MORE INFORMATION
Email us at info@HonestyEurope.com
You are warmly welcome to join us!
Tuulia, Gabriel, Tutur and the Honesty Europe team
www.HonestyEurope.com
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Who are the webinar leaders?
Tuulia Syvänen is the certified Radical Honesty trainer who has led the most RH workshops in Europe. She also does 1:1 and couples coaching. For two decades, she held leadership positions at international, non-profit organizations that are concerned with social and environmental justice issues. A native of Finland, she has lived in Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Canada.
Having grown up in a dysfunctional family—where difficulties and negative feelings were often swept under the rug—Tuulia became passionate about self-expression and self-awareness, and learned the importance of setting one’s boundaries. Most important, she learned the power of honesty. Her life’s mission is to help create more love and connection between people through honest sharing.
Tuulia participated in her first Radical Honesty training in 2012 with the founder of Radical Honesty Dr. Brad Blanton and continued her training under the guidance of Dr. Blanton. She has led about 100 RH workshops in various European countries. She has also attained a four-year certification in the Human-to-Human Coaching and Therapy Program in Finland and is a certified leader of Dr. Fischer’s Rebuilding Divorce Seminars. She earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Tampere and has an adult son.
Gabriel Vivas-Martinez is an actor, freelancer educator, and doctoral researcher at the Centre for Education – King’s College London. practice research focuses on Applied Theatre, notions of masculinity and gender embodiment and performativity.
As a practitioner and activist, he is interested in how socially engaged theatre making can advance the potential for social transformation, exploring Theatre-Voice-Body He uses expression methods with young people directly, including young people with disabilities, young migrants and refugees, roma community and LGBTIQ+ young people.
Tutur (Arthur Parmentier, they/them) will be the facilitator of this webinar. They have been attending two 8-days workhops in Radical Honesty for the last year and have been organizing several trainings and skillshare for activists and youth workers since 2020. They currently work as facilitator for climate & queer activist groups in Europe, combining methods and tools of non-formal education, conflict transformation, community building and emotional awareness.