Co-Creating Connection through Movement
Exploring embodied ways of knowing to expand how we sense, relate, and create change together
Movement allows us to express what words cannot, opening space for relational and systemic insight. In this gathering, we’ll explore communicating with the body as a more authentic form of connection.
Guided by Diana Ojeda, a gifted Biodanza facilitator, we’ll step into a journey of remembering and reconnecting with our bodies—through music, movement, and dance—as a way to relate more fully with ourselves and with others. You’ll be invited to move freely and express authentically, in ways that regulate the nervous system, awaken joy, and spark meaningful connection. When we learn to co-create from an embodied place—not only from the cognitive mind—we access a fuller expression of creativity, vitality, and presence that can transform both our relationships and our work.
In this welcoming, non-judgmental space, movement becomes a language of its own—one that eases the busy mind, relaxes the body, opens the heart, and fosters a sense of community.
This gathering is part of Soma, Systems and Soul, a fall workshop series of embodied practices people transforming systems. These spaces invite us to explore what becomes possible when we shift into our bodies, intuition and collective wisdom - and how that shift expands the way we approach systems change.
The intention: when we bridge our strategic mind with embodied and intuitive wisdom, our work becomes exponentially more powerful, creative, and connected. This isn’t a retreat from the rational, but a strategic expansion of how we know, sense, and act together.
Who it’s for: Social and tech innovators, designers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, program leaders, researchers and all who are engaging with systems change. It’s for anyone seeking new ways of engaging in systems change practices: with more intuition, creativity, and collective wisdom.
This event is for you if you’re feeling tired, disenchanted or overwhelmed, and in need of a spark of joy and hope.
About the Organizer:
Claire Buré is a systemic designer, facilitator, and community-builder with 20 years’ experience bringing diverse groups together to co-create solutions to complex social and environmental challenges. She has worked across sectors — from housing affordability to energy transition, public education to regulatory innovation — with empathy, curiosity and inclusion.
Claire feels a deep calling to bridge the worlds of systems and soul — especially collectively. Her work explores how embodiment, intuition, and creativity can expand the practice of systems change, allowing us to imagine and build new realities that are more equitable, inclusive, and whole-hearted. Soma, Systems & Soul is an expression of this exploration.
Claire is also creating Soul Capsule, a growing community for people working in systems change who are curious about what becomes possible when we centre our bodies, intuition, and collective wisdom in how we work and live together.
About Diana Ojeda:
Diana Ojeda is a Colombian-born therapist, coach and facilitator based in Toronto. She is a certified Biodanza facilitator practicing since 2016, with a background in Gestalt psychotherapy, and a Zen Shiatsu therapist and instructor with 20 years of experience. Her work is rooted in the wisdom of the body, the healing power of touch and the transformative power of meaningful conversations, presence and connection. She believes in trusting one’s ability to heal, in cultivating self-awareness, awakening our potential and enjoying self-care practices so that we can co-create authentic spaces for sustainable change and therefore community.
About Awareness and Flow:
At Awareness and Flow, we believe in the power of holistic practices to cultivate, restore, and transform your health and well-being. Diana Ojeda and Dondrub Wangchuk, with over 30 years of experience in Eastern and Western healing modalities, offer a unique, whole-person approach that integrates body, mind, energy, emotions, and spirit. Whether you are seeking personal growth, balance, stress resilience or improved health, our classes and services are designed to support you on your journey.
We believe that when we improve the quality of our lives, we align more fully with our true selves, from this grounded authenticity, real connection and community can be co-created with other fellow human beings. We believe in the wisdom of the journey, not just the destination, "in trusting the process".
We gather for this series on the Treaty lands and territory of the Mississauga of the Credit, and on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee. We honour their living relationship with these lands, waters, and all Beings — and we invite this awareness into our own bodies, voices, and collective practice.