Transforming Overwhelm & Conflict

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Schedule: 10:00 am-1:00 pm | Sunday 19 April 2026

Course Description: Transforming Overwhelm and Conflict: Using Embodied Mindfulness, Movement, and Visual Art will offer tools for transforming the inner experience of and relationship to overwhelm and conflict. Led by Meg Stein of Alive and Aware Practice and Tommy Noonan of Culture Mill, this workshop offers participants interactive experiences that cultivate inner spaciousness and compassion. We’ll be using:

embodied mindfulness, including a practice called Inner-Relationship Focusing,
improvisational movement practices that incorporate principles of Aikido and Somatics,
accessible visual art practices.

This workshop is open to everyone and is accessible for all skill levels. Past participants in our wellness series have ranged in age from 23 to 88!

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Location: Center Building Dance Studio | Carolina Friends School

Questions? Please email Meg at meg@aliveandawarepractice.com.

Tommy Noonan '01

Carolina Friends alumnus Tommy Noonan '01 is a director, choreographer, writer, and performer currently based in Saxapahaw, North Carolina. His artistic work and his collaborations have been presented on both main stages and underground spaces throughout Germany, France, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Norway, Mexico, and the United States in venues such as The American Dance Festival (Durham USA), Maxim Gorki Theater and Sophiensaele (Berlin), Theater Freiburg (Freiburg), Theatre de la Cité International (Paris), and Sydney Festival (Australia) among many others. He is currently co-director of the performing arts laboratory Culture Mill in Saxapahaw.

Tommy intertwines his artistic and facilitation work with Inner-Relationship Focusing, which he has practiced since 2015, now as a Certified Focusing Professional with the International Focusing Institute. He has also practiced Aikido since 2011 and currently holds the rank of Shodan (Black Belt, 1st degree) with the United States Aikido Federation. He enjoys meditation, dancing, trail running, and reading.

More about Tommy at www.tommynoonan.work.

Meg Stein

Meg Stein (she/they) lives and works in Durham, North Carolina where she offers embodied mindfulness sessions, classes, and workshops. A Certified Focusing Professional with the International Focusing Institute, she has been practicing Inner-Relationship Focusing since 2014 and has studied with teachers Dr. Ann Weiser-Cornell, Mary Love May, and Cathy Pascal (the last two parents of Carolina Friends School alumni).

In other areas of her life, Meg works as a facilitator and visual artist. She integrates an embodied approach into her facilitation and artistic work by creating conversations and experiences that allow internal reflection and body-based awareness.

As a human in the world, Meg greatly enjoys being in nature and spends as much time as she can hiking, backpacking, kayaking, and being out amongst the trees.

More about Meg at www.aliveandawarepractice.com.